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Doesn't work on Guix, or at least isn't in the repos and didn't work at all some time ago. Something to do with the way Plasma expects the files stem to be versus how Guix implements it. Nix makes it work so it must be possible, not sure whether anyone's bothered to port it over yet though.

The only thing missing is a Gopher client. Nice setup, very classic.

I tend to use either Newsboat or Elfeed. The first one is command line, the second is Emacs. So they're both text-based. Might not be precisely what you're looking for, but with the right choice of terminal font and easy-on-the-eyes colours, I find it a pleasant reading experience without distraction.

The Church of Emacs, specifically.

Not sure which change logs you're looking at, but both stable and current were updated yesterday. Current is most days, stable is usually a couple of security patches and bug fixes a week.

Yeah, it's good. Less focus on bleeding edge than Arch (which is good IMO), simple init system, really easy to compile stuff from source if you need to modify a package. Solid all-rounder.

Nice and clean! Mine's basically stock Xfce, but I like it. Absolutely my favourite DE, nice to see it get a little love.

We don't install packages without dependancy management, for the most part. We use one of the half-dozen or so pkgtools wrappers made by community members that interface with SBo and handles the dependencies for us (examples include slapt-get, slpkg, and sbotools). Also, Flatpak/Distrobox/Nix etc are all available and easy enough to install if slackbuilds.org doesn't have what I need (rare tbh).

Debian and Void (and Void is iffy. The TTY installer is easy enough though, and it's basically good to go out of the box if you get the glibc iso with Xfce). None of the other base distros are super user-friendly in terms of installation, though I'd add Endeavour OS as an honorary member of the group since it's essentially Arch with a good installer, a friendly community, and nice defaults.

Me too. I love XFCE so much, but it's impossible to deny how large a step forwards Wayland is on a technical level (although there are still kinks to work out). When XFCE moves over, I'll be able to confidently do so as well.

Perhaps fair, but since they're planning to move downstream of Serpent OS, they're not gonna be an independant distro for much longer and probably shouldn't count in the broader context of this thread.

I also didn't count a bunch of distros with atypical functionality (like NixOS, Alpine, Slackware, etc), just because they tend to have very particular usecases and maybe aren't well-suited as general recommendations if someone's looking for a typical Linux experience, but YMMV.

He replied to a post in the Slackware forum back at the end of January telling folk he had terminal cancer. No idea how things have progressed since then but I know he was already very unwell at that point and I've not seen him crop up since that time. I imagine he's either spending his remaining time with his family or he's already at rest. Either way, losing Steve is a huge blow to the community. Wish I could have met him and thanked him in person for his videos. They were so helpful to me in the early days of running Slackware.