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It is still supported and used. It's been my distro of choice for several years.
if you choose the current or the stable stream, last update was yesterday:
If you need help, there are many users that can help you here https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/
Slackware is the only distro I've run since the late 90s. I'm not an IT pro or a programmer or even an advanced user.. Slackware just feels right. Give it a shot.
Is the package manager still too dumb to figure out dependencies automatically?
I don't think Slackware was ever widely used
Back in the day it was THE distro. Not so much these days.
Take a look at DistroWatch. I use it when I want to try a new distro, just for fun. Slackware is number 44 in the popularity rank.
It'll go back up to the top 20 or maybe top 10 when a new version comes out. 15.1 should be ready soon. People still care.
You should give Gentoo a try. I'm a 12 year arch user. Gentoo is really solid and fun though. Or hell if you wanna go that advanced try LFS :)
Slackware may not be huge, but it is the base distro for Unraid.
Never heard about Unraid, but I hear about Slackware all the time.
If you can manage a Linux server, you likely have no use for Unraid. If you want to put together a Synology type appliance out of PC hardware to run Docker containers and uses ZFS for backups, Unraid is a fairly user friendly option.
@hibby @razieltakato I have an Ubuntu server with ZFS I’ve been using for a while. Haven’t seen the need for unraid personally.