Here's an interesting blog,
My perfect distro: Salix 14.1, or should I say a review by somebody much like ourselves, seasoned Linux users but not Linux IT professionals. He (she?) rants on about virtualbox/vagrant for a bit, just skip over that part, all in all this person's review (blog) mirrored my experience, Salix 14.1 (Xfce for me, they offer other DEs) looks like a keeper. It's pretty much the same as Debhat, you get too creative 'outside of the box', expect problems. If Sourcery says you need a dependency from Gslapt, install it, then try your Sourcery app install again, it's that simple. Salix (Slackware) has deep roots in the traditional Linux way of doing things, and it looks like it will stay that way for years to come, unlike the Franken-buntu-hat Debian is becoming (virusd + future kernel maintenance by Ubuntu devs).
Distrowatch live Xfce version release story
here.
Boot up the live disk, kick the tires, see if
Salix likes your hardware, apparently it's pre-configured for wifi too, so Salix would be a good distro for some laptops/netbooks as well, fast and light on resources, possibly even lighter on resources than a Debhat Xfce install.
My Debhat divorce party continues...
Major edit: I got confused which installer was which, it was the
Stella installer that was solid, pretty and bug free, it even installed to my old machine's 4 HDD fakeraid. It seems there are two versions of Salix 14.1, one is a live disk but the 'installer' on that disk appears to only copy the live image to a drive. If you want a full blown (proper) Salix install, there's a 14.1 installer version. Speaking of that, I used an old Korora live disk (based on Fedora 20) to create a 4 HDD LVM (un-fakeraided, etc) for a Salix install attempt, oddly enough, the
live Salix disk 'saw' it in Thunar, and I could even write to it but the Salix installer disk hated it, it saw it but hated it. I'm scratching my head and zeroing out the first of 4 HDDs as I'm typing this, it's so polluted after fakeraid, FreeBSD (UFS), LVM, etc, etc. I'm starting to wonder if my old machine is getting a little flakey, inconsistency and erratic behaviour are clues, I think I may have built the new machine just in time, phew. BTW, some proprietary bootable disk management utilities like Seagate's DiscWizard 11.x claimed there was
NO Seagates in the machine after I aborted the FreeBSD install (4 HDD fakeraid), even though the lone storage drive still had an NTFS partition and data on it, now that's really weird, I did manage to fix the problem, but I'm experienced with this, a wannabe would have chucked all five HDDs in the garbage, lol.
In other news...I was fooling around in Salix live again, you can have Gslpat, Sourcery and run the updater
ALL AT THE SAME TIME! Let's see anybody try that in Debhat, lol, only one apt process at a time, or you get slapt, lol. I am really loving Salix out of all of them, it's burning my ass I can't get it on the fakeraid or LVM, most likely I have to create the LVM with one of the Salix disks, now if Salix had Stella's installer, it would be a perfect world.
Multiple edits for spelling and grammar, I screw up a lot when I get tired, blech.