me too

alone and very far away from the real world?

good one!

Slack be upon Him, and may his code ever compile without errors!

It’s a unique combination of extreme stability and extreme KISS philosophy.
Sparse updates are a selling point for some people. You do get timely security updates, but you don’t get “version number must go up”.
For installing additional software there are 5 package managers that I know of, 4 of which resolve dependencies.
The base system doesn’t need a fancy one because the installer already resolves all dependencies.
And as for support, there’s well-written documentation installed with the system, and linuxquestions.org has a very active community where the main dev and the maintainers post regularly.
It’s certainly not a good distro for most people, but it’s the perfect one for roughly 10000 users worldwide.

You certainly learn a lot about paths, environment variables and compile options.

No. No Arch user has ever had sex.

When I installed it, my wife left me and gave me all my sperm back.

Mostly to attract new, younger kernel maintainers.

I wish there was one that’s up to date today. I’d pay good money for that.
If you install Slackware now, you can’t open linuxquestions.org (the official support forum) because the Firefox version is too old for the Capcha. If you then do slackpkg upgrade-all and reboot, it won’t boot cause you forgot to point the bootloader towards the new kernel. Things like that can really bounce you off the distro.

My PC shat the bed, I needed one RIGHT NOW for university, and a roommate gifted me an old tower with OpenSUSE installed.
I hated it and couldn’t figure out how to install anything. But I was broke (as in, couldn’t afford to eat every day). So I was stuck.
When I found out how the package manager works and how much software was available, I was blown away:
No hunting for software on the internet?
Everything is free?
No limited functionality or nagging reminders to upgrade to pro?
No searching through installer submenus to find all the checkmarks that install spyware?
Never looked back after that. The next year Ubuntu appeared, and blew my mind again.

Also DDR Ram

I set my terminal to black text on white when I’m in public.
I don’t want to have to explain what I’m doing to an impatient functionally illiterate backwater cop.

Most teachers are already glad when their students graduate with functional literacy and without bullet holes.

Ich bin schon ziemlich in Europa rumgekommen, und den alten Fernbusbahnhof hab ich in Erinnerung als den hässlichsten Ort, den ich je in Europa gesehen habe.

YouTube voice auto-translation is completely worthless, but they still shove it down your throat.

There is no inherent value in it. A translation only makes sense if enough people will buy and read it to make it worth the effort and cost.
But I do think (actually fear), we’ll soon get AI-translated e-books where you can select the language at checkout.

It’s a wolf and a flock of sheep all inside a fenced-off meadow, thinking that everyone can do whatever they want and it will all work out to everyone’s favor.

Awesome, let everyone freely enter into any contract they’ll agree to, instead of a government enforcing rules at gunpoint!
Except the contract is written by a multi-billion-dollar conglomerate, and the one “agreeing” to it is a single mom who will lose her income, apartment and access to child care if she “freely” refuses.

That science can’t explain how bumble-bees are able to fly, since their wings are too small for their weight.