After last week writing about my trying Slackware for the first time and how it may become my daily driver if/when my Arch installation breaks, I can report that Arch broke and I now have Slackware 15 installed on my primary notebook.
I’m not sure what the problem with my Arch installation was. I’d had some difficulties with our router and had made some adjustmants to DHCP and DNS on the router and Arch install, and so my internet would disconnect after about 10 minutes of uptime. I would invoke my VPN and internet connectivity would be OK again (both with and without the VPN tunnel).
The installation went off without a hitch, but my reinstallation of user files had many hitches because I inadvertently wiped the backup I had taken that day and have had to resort to a backup of some 5 months earlier. It was inconvenient, but of little consequence. I’ve lost a few months of email archives, and have had to create/recreate some password and security features, but all is basically well.
I was running JWM on Arch, but am currently running OpenBox in Slackware. They are basically set up the same–same shortcuts, some look and feel. The primary difference is that JWM had its own panel whereas I’m using Polybar in OpenBox. Slightly different, but it’s all good.