@josemanuel when i left the world of Slack, i'm not sure it had a system for updating packages from remote repositories in place. Debian very much had that, and what seemed to me like a much more powerful package manager, with more packages than Slackware had at the time.
@josemanuel Slackware's package manager at the time felt more like an afterthought than what the entire system revolved around. everything about packaging seemed more elaborately done with Debian. my perception is that this was a bit of a speciality of Debian at the time.
@josemanuel now we are seeing some disruption to that model with stuff like Snap, Flatpak, AppImage, etc, and also the emergence of immutable distributions. apparently, package managers as we know them are slowly going out of fashion.
@josemanuel i'm sure Slackware could do more than i knew about at the time, and that it, like everything else, has changed and renewed itself. but at that time, in that place, Debian felt right. and i don't appear to be very alone in that. it's hard to find a cloud server provider these days that doesn't offer either Debian or Ubuntu. and i'm mostly on Ubuntu these days. using something that's so mainstream has made the ride smoother.