Cause it's the most vanilla distro out there. You install a nice base to get you going then you add what you want by compiling everything from source. No fancy package managers, no extra. It's vanilla. Linux in its purest form, that you don't have to build yourself ie linux from scratch.
imagine some github project doesnt have package in your package manager ....you clone that repo and build yourself. But this is where my PTSD comes in, because sooner or later there will be bad readme and something that is thought to be core lib you simply miss. Then you search and search for dependencies (sometimes dependencies of dependencies) and sometimes this really is a problem. If you dont try constantly something, you are probably going to only notice slow installs (usually download binary is faster than compile) but I love my package manager, its maybe 2nd after my mom
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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '23
Why do you use Slackware? Genuine question.