Isn’t hard real time in the kernel now?

They’re the main reasons, yes, but there are plenty others .

Friends don’t let friends use Red Shat.

You just triggered my PTSD

Amen.

It’s exactly the way it was, but with higher version numbers for all the software!

Which is how I like it if I’m going to be honest. All the other distros are too clever. They overwrite your config files or put them in dumb places. With Slackware, I know where everything is and it just works.

The binary package manager is simple but effective, even if it doesn’t have dependency management. That can be a bit of a pain, but it’s a small one.

The latest release is brilliant.

It puts it’s Configs in /etc/ or it gets the hose again.

I’m on Slackware - it’s a bit of a pain because Steam is 32 bit so you have to install the compat libs.