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Gitea, wger, jellyfin, samba, *arr stack, jellyseer

You can't set alerts for availability. This is functionality that it used to have, but lost across updates. This is by itself is enough to relegate it to the compost bin.

Jellyfin + Finamp has been pretty good for me.

Late reply, but I suppose you're correct; I think the option to choose what to install, the lack of pre-created desktop stuff ("home/$username/Videos" for example) and the requirement that you handle software that isn't in the base install all make a Slackware installation less bloated than most. Maybe not at install time, but over the life of the install you end up with less garbage IMHO.

I second Zoneminder, used it at a job way back in the day and it was solid.

If you hate bloat you like Slackware. It doesn't assume anything about how you want to use your computer, so it's more painful for a lot of folks. Other distros will try to do things for you and will ultimately end up doing something someone doesn't want. With Slackware you learn a lot and you get a rock-solid system that will do whatever you like, but you have to be willing to manage it.

I'll look into that, thanks!

I just don't want to be a windows systems engineer anymore, and I'm having trouble getting interviews for linux administration roles.

For sure, my company is willing to pay for it, I wouldn't be paying for it myself.

I just don't want to work with windows anymore, and every job I get is windows centric; therefore I get a small amount of linux experience on my resume and the cycle continues. I'm contemplating getting the RHCSA and the RHCSE in order to get linux-centric roles (because although I'm down to take a cut in pay and settle for a junior position, most of the jobs available seem to be for senior or mid-level positions).

That's an odd way of pronouncing sudo telinit 0

NMH!