Comment by prmoustache

I have nothing against gentoo but the least that can be said is that his rant against slackware is not a good representation of the reality and uncalled for.

There have always been video players and office suites in Slackware. I even remember having proprietary stuff like real video player and flash running on slackware in the early 2000's. What most non slackware users, or those that strive for small distros do not understand though, is that to get the most of it you usually do a full installation where everything is included. So it is not a frugal install in term of disk space but it is not huge either. Once you have that, you don't really struggle with the lack of dependencies as you rarely have to install a third party app but slackbuilds help you with that when you need it. Having said that with modern software installation methods like flatpak, appimages, nix-env and containers, I don't think a 2023 slackware user would be limited in application availability and ease of installation/management.

His experience of system breakage is something that you wouldn't expect from a same vintage slackware installation.

I've personnally used gentoo for a time, but I got tired quickly of long build times and keeping my computer on all evenings/nights just to do updates. When I am not in front of my computer, I want it shut off and not wasting power. I love that it still exist and give choice to users, especially in term of init system. I also believe that nowadays you can use gentoo with precompiled packages right?