On Linux and conflating the tool with the work of the tool.
https://media.sully.site/the-tool-as-the-work/ #linux

@sullybiker i am just absolutely in love with the fact that you categorize slackware as a “mid-2000s” thing, never change. ;d i associate it with like, 1993 and floppy disks. wikipedia says, and i think this is true, that the “slack” is regarding the maintainer’s effort toward the distro. he still does just random releases to this day, has no bug tracker or central source repo.

@sullybiker jokes aside tho i’m glad to see folks newer to the game running the gamut. slackware is most like BSD IIRC, you can get some binary software, but generally are encouraged to compile everything from source. there is an understanding of the system and confidence in what you have that comes from that.