>>3 I think this is an important point which other distros don't care about at all. Most Linux distros are designed as always-online OSes that can't function without Internet and in the case of many rolling release distros even break if you don't connect them to the Internet for too long. In that regard even Windows is superior to most of those always-online distros, because you can hoard, share, and install .exe, .msi installers for programs you want to preserve, unlike with for instance Arch or Debian where everything is a hyper-specific package that only works on that exact system at that exact version. Slackware doesn't fix this fundamental issue with Linux, but it still attempts to make an offline-usable OS at all.
I think this is an important point which other distros don't care about at all. Most Linux distros are designed as always-online OSes that can't function without Internet and in the case of many rolling release distros even break if you don't connect them to the Internet for too long. In that regard even Windows is superior to most of those always-online distros, because you can hoard, share, and install .exe, .msi installers for programs you want to preserve, unlike with for instance Arch or Debian where everything is a hyper-specific package that only works on that exact system at that exact version. Slackware doesn't fix this fundamental issue with Linux, but it still attempts to make an offline-usable OS at all.