Wheeler, I'm going to cut you some slack [haha, geddit?]. I agree with you largely. But systemd is such a contentious issue that I imagine it will always be part of discussion here.
I would just encourage you not to make any 'goodbye' threads since one can never be certain that one will not return.
Thorny wrote:As I commented personally to dasein
dasein is sorely missed.
Thorny wrote:I'm finding it difficult to find posters that I want to help.
And I thought it was just me.
HuangLao wrote:There you go again...just let sleeping dogs lie man.... Slackware is not for tinkers or Linux experts its for people who see the benefit in Slackware's setup and philosophy, anyone can use it.
Well, it's not for experts but I would agree it is for tinkerers. It does need, I would say, considerably more maintenance than Debian [stable, anyway]. Appropriately, I will quote something dasein said to me about it:
Slack has a very specific focus, and it's not ease-of-use.
Though I imagine as time goes on its maintenance will become second-nature to me [note to self - must upgrade kernel to 4.4.115].
Anyway, this topic isn't about Slackware. More to the point:
steve_v wrote: If you want more hugs, try the Ubuntu forums. I hear they're real friendly over there.
I think you mean the Mint forums. They're very huggy down that way. Most [NB: 'most' may be an exaggeration] posts on the Mint forums are just people saying, "yay I left Windows, go me!" etc.
golinux wrote:there was a HUGE exodus from this forum
The word 'exodus' already implies [actually, expresses] a large quantity.