I should perhaps make a new thread, discussing linux distros on slow internet. Would slackware be marked as the solution? Too retro?
Most suggestions on google return low resources distros: lxqt, puppy linux, peppermint, bodhi linux. But I did not find a discussion about what distro to put on a fast computer constrained by ultraslow internet.
More beer. Then it gives you something to do while it’s slow.
That’s an interesting question - what distro generally has the fewest/smallest updates?
Slackware isn’t seriously behind in all of its packages, like it has been with Plasma, but it’s been almost 10 years since I last had a Slackware installation, so I don’t really recall the update size or frequency.
To me the more frequent smaller updates of a rolling release model seem practical, I can do them in the morning and I am not slowing down the whole home internet. Watching netflix on tv and updating my distro simultaneously is already using too much bandwidth.
The other model is slow stable release model. Install distro, update every few months at work with higher speed internet. The constraint here is time available for updates, I mean at some point I want to go back home.
Edit: @fbodymechanic and of course the more beer model
Fwiw, I usually only update about every other weekend (since I work every other weekend) and I’ve had no issues yet. And I just got back from a longer vacation where I ended up almost 7 weeks without an update. And the old Cinnamon Arch had no issues from it.
If work is easier, once everything is settled on the computer and you have everything you need, maybe just update there once a week or two and not interrupt the family Netflix?
“Latest” ISO from slackware is from 2016 
just start installing it here 
I guess I’ll pass on slackware. 
yes i do try to install… but they still use lilo per default… what is not compatible with EFI… do not want to tinker that 
Ha lilo, I remember that for open suse installs about a decade ago.