I think I'll stick with Slackare, thank you very much.

When free market capitalism does not work in your favor, get a law passed to "fix the problem." After all, corporations are people too, and you don't wan them to end up homeless.

Perfect timing! Should be just about ready for fusion, then.

Try again. Before answering, review https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

For one, I am glad I do not run a "major" linux distribution (Slackware).

From Qualys article (full of a hard sell for their security product), and left out of the ZDNet article:

"Is this vulnerability remotely exploitable?
No. But if an attacker can log in as any unprivileged user, the vulnerability can be quickly exploited to gain root privileges."

*yawn*

FPS not GPS. Nothing in Earth orbit, Mars, or whipping through the Solar System runs on MS Windows.

Except for Cyberpunk 2077, anything from Bethesda (except id Software, their stuff always at least at least work OOTB), Microsoft (you'd think they could get their games to work day 1 on their own OS...), and a whole host of other AAA games whose forums (and on Steam) are lit up with issues just running let alone at a decent fps.

Also, most tweak guides are not for nutjobs like me that goes out and buys the latest computer gadgetry for best whiz-bang eye candy and frame rates. They are for people to get PLAYABLE FRAME RATES on hardware THEY CAN AFFORD just to run the game at the minimum or even recommended specifications.

There has never been a time in the past 30+ years when PC gamers didn't tweak game/[dos | windows]/graphics settings as evidenced by the copious quantity of "tweak" guides and sites online.

Ergo, you must be one of those game console dweebs.

If you want an OS that "evolves" then user Windows or MacOS, or one of those other *Nix that constantly muck around and thus crash. Why should an installer "evolve"? etc.

  An OPERATING SYSTEM is simply something to allow people to launch application software and get stuff done, and does not need to be the center of attention. Nobody uses an operating system to compose music, write a novel, etc.

You're initial complaint was the Slackware can't be and isn't a "desktop distro" (whatever that means these days of mobile devices). The examples I provided are exactly what a "desktop" is used for - and it ain't programming by the vast majority of users. Slackware is no harder to install or maintain than anything else. What has spoiled most people is the pre-installed nature of commercial operating systems resulting in users not understanding how to install anything themsleves. So you had a bad experience due to your own laziness or stupidy and now grumble, grumble, Slackware is bad.

As for "full install", yes that is recommended for one simple reason: upstream software interdependencies. This is a fact that other distros hide via their package managers and even monkey with by having separate "dev" packages. After a full Slackware installation, a common user has just about every CLI an GUI program they could want, all in about 8 GBs. THAT is what I call a computer desktop.

We will have to agree to disagree. Slackware has been my daily driver desktop at home for 20 yrs. In that time no harder to set up and configure (and sometimes easire) than the Windows versions over that time period (Windows is stil NOT easy to do a clean install). 4 systems now on Slackware64-15.0 RC1. I think I'll fire up Steam and play a game after I check email, update my calendar and to-do list, log on to the bank and pay a few bills, while listening to the local jazz station via mplayer.

It is nice to use a distro where EVERY stable release is LTS for longer that ANY other competing operating system. As ffor your complaint, I full install is recommended for Slackware novices. All the programs are untouched with upstream defaults with no patches (unless needed to compile, or security). Other distros monkey with the code in odd ways to get their package manager to work, or pull in new dependencies whether you want them or not. Mplayer requiring SAMBA was upstreams choice, not slackware.

Really, if you want the "perfect desktop", handsfree, no fiddling, you should really be runnng MacOS.

Also, that's http://www.slackware.com/ you noob, although slackware.org does provide a nice summary.

You gave up too soon. Now pardon me while fire up my Slackware desktop with KDE, AMD Ryzen 7 3800X, RX 5700 XT GPU for some Steam 4K gaming action, while compiling QT5 and libreoffice.

Now I have to try Clear Linux on my Asus Atom netbook, Lenovo T510 laptop, Lenovo Thinkcentre MT-M 0266 SFF, Intel i7-6850K 32GB GGR4 DRAM box, or AMD Ryzen 7 3800X miniITX box I just built (all currently run Slackware). One must be fair a have a proper baseline after all, assuming Slackware is not too obscure for /. and the common tech media outlets. On Second thought, those run plenty fast enough compared to Windoze and the popular linux distros (yes, I have compared). Maybe I'll just pick up that cheap Walmart laptop and slap Slackware on it. I can always use a another small laptop for some random task in the garage or workshop.

People get so upset when a free online service wants to make money off of freely submitted data. Gee. Who woulda thunk it? Maybe the question is really: Are there ANY on line services that are required for Life, Liberty, and the pursuit or happiness? As for "social network" anonymity: There was a time people social networked by going to churches, clubs, and various events IN PERSON. Security? There was once a group of individuals who dedicated their fortunes, life, liberty and sacred honor to found a new nation. You can read their signatures on the Declaration of Independence.