Hey fellow Linux enthusiasts! I’m curious to know if any of you use a less popular, obscure or exotic Linux distribution. What motivated you to choose that distribution over the more mainstream ones? I’d love to hear about your experiences and any unique features or benefits that drew you to your chosen distribution.
Slackpkg ships with the OS and is a very capable package manger for updating the stock OS.
You’re probably talking about dependency management. I like being my own dependency manager. It forces me to read and learn about everything that goes into my computer. And I can skip optional features I don’t need to keep bloat down. And I can catch when a dependency will conflict with something else I have installed as a dependency of another package. But you do trade away some convenience doing it this way and it’s not for everyone.