Slackware’s package manager is extremely easy to use:
slackpkg upgrade-all upgrades all installed packages slackpkg install-new installs all packages that were added to the repo slackpkg clean-system uninstalls all packages that were removed from the repo
It’s Slackware’s approach to dependency resolution. You don’t need to resolve dependencies on your system if you just install every package in the repo.
The installed size is under 15 GB, and you get a system that works equally well for a desktop as for a server with lots of app choices out of the box.
(This was the common way to install Linux in the old days before quick Internet)
idk about 2025 but as of a few years ago, Slackware used to not have a dependency resolver in whatever it uses to download packages. You had to resolve dependencies manually.
Luckily I switched to Gentoo and 3 years later after my system was done compiling, it was already out of date so when I used emerge to update my system, it borked itself because it was so out of date.
it’s 2025, what popular distro makes it not easy?
For nvidia? Alpine Linux. It’s so hard there is 0 support outside of nouveau
(I mean, Alpine uses MUSL instead of GLIBC, so expected)
For AMD? doas apk add linux-firmware-amdgpu mesa mesa-tools vulkan-loaders xf86-video-amdgpu There, you’re good to go(wiki also tells you that)
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Gentoo, LFS, Slackware.
LFS is not a distro and I highly doubt it’s popular as well.
Slackware’s package manager is extremely easy to use:
slackpkg upgrade-allupgrades all installed packagesslackpkg install-newinstalls all packages that were added to the reposlackpkg clean-systemuninstalls all packages that were removed from the repoAnd that’s all.
That reads easy but what’s with installing all packages that were added to a repo? How does that help anything?
It’s Slackware’s approach to dependency resolution. You don’t need to resolve dependencies on your system if you just install every package in the repo.
The installed size is under 15 GB, and you get a system that works equally well for a desktop as for a server with lots of app choices out of the box.
(This was the common way to install Linux in the old days before quick Internet)
That’s a horrendous approach since probably two decades. They shouldn’t slack so hard.
popular
if you’re using any of those you can’t complain about having to run a few command lines
idk about 2025 but as of a few years ago, Slackware used to not have a dependency resolver in whatever it uses to download packages. You had to resolve dependencies manually.
Luckily I switched to Gentoo and 3 years later after my system was done compiling, it was already out of date so when I used emerge to update my system, it borked itself because it was so out of date.
Yes, but Slackware. That’s obviously intentional
And OP did specify “popular”, which Slackware hasn’t been since the late 90s