12 Apr
2025
12 Apr
'25
1:48 a.m.
On Friday 11 April 2025 14:01:10 Darrell Anderson via tde-users wrote:
I could adapt to Devuan or some other non systemd distro that is well
supported by TDE. But I'm an old guy. While old dogs can learn new
tricks, old dogs always ask, "Why should I bother?"
I am pretty old myself, dude, 67 years as of this past February. There are a
few others who are older, but I think I'm probably counted among the elders.
And let's not forget Gene, who is still chugging away in his 90s.
But yeah, I dislike changing just for the sake of change. I like the comfort
of using the same old things until they wear out; the same with my machines.
Novelty for novelty's sake gets old really fast.
I am working on my own build script environment for Slackware. Takes
time though. I don't really have interest or the skills to create a live
ISO or anything like that. There is one person in the Slackware
community who makes robust ISOs, but TDE is not one of the desktop
choices. Likely with enough grunting I could massage that image with
TDE, but that is far down the road and is something younger whiz kids
should tackle.
Again, that sounds like a good option, to use one of those images to get
started, put TDE on that. But then, I gave up on Slackware years ago, once I
found Devuan, so I don't appreciate the problems involved.
I do have a couple of repair discs that are based on Slackware (Slacko comes
to mind), but like yourself, I am already comfortable with where I am, no
need to explore further.
So I guess I keep plugging away, keep asking
questions, and keep filing
bug reports and feature requests. Not much else I can do. :)
Maybe put out a call especially to Slackware users, here on the TDE mailing
list, but also search the Slackware forums (I assume that there are such) to
find some other TDE users, or at least some people who might be willing to
help.
I seem to recall that there were some Slackware users here on the Trinity
list, and that there used to be some (probably old) Slackware ISOs with TDE.
Maybe they are archived somewhere?
Bill