16 engineers on Hacker News describe using Slackware first-hand: 3 endorse it, 0 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“I personally use Slackware so I'll get my jollies there I suppose”
endorse · personal · jqm · 2014-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Forward ahead a year or two to Slackware where packages installed in a few seconds”
endorse · personal · acdha · 2012-10-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Slackware for ages. The advantage for me is this: prior knowledge (it's the distro I'm most efficient in), extreme stability”
endorse · production · orthecreedence · 2012-09-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“5 years updating without hitch on custom kernel and compiled software... after failing a distribution upgrade”
mixed · production · 5 yr · clsdaniel · 2012-01-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It was my favourite distro for a long time after I moved on from Slackware in the late 90's”
neutral · personal · nineteen999 · 2024-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“After a while OS/2 got replaced by Slackware”
neutral · personal · skissane · 2024-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I got it installed and started using it. I thought, this is a very new user unfriendly system”
neutral · personal · bloopernova · 2023-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“when I was installing Slackware from diskettes”
neutral · personal · Shorel · 2019-11-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it does not seem to want to install correctly on Slackware”
neutral · personal · yellowapple · 2019-03-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Linux since around 1995 (Slackware!)”
neutral · personal · 23 yr · teh_klev · 2018-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have also used extensibly: archlinux, gentoo, openbsd, freebsd, alpine and slackware-current.”
neutral · personal · pecg · 2017-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“early versions of Slackware (which ran our Usenet servers).”
neutral · production · deerpig · 2017-02-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“slackware on a mountain of 3.5" floppies!!!”
neutral · personal · cestes · 2014-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'd been running Slackware and FreeBSD for a few years”
neutral · personal · laumars · 2013-11-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“introduced to Nmap in 1999 on Slackware Linux 2.2.x”
neutral · personal · joshbaptiste · 2013-08-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Prior to Ubuntu I generally went with Slackware or FreeBSD.”
neutral · personal · Skywing · 2012-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?