I'll have to admit, that I do not like slotted or phillips drive.  Almost all the screws I've bought in the last 25 years have been "rolled" so the two-diameter pilot hole is the thing of the past for me..  I use square drive in most of my screws and star (Torx) on construction work.  The thing I don't like about Torx is the wide variety of drive sizes, I sometimes have to stop and find a T20, T25, etc.  And I don't use drywall screws except for drywall.  Too brittle, phillips head that slips, and threaded all the way to the top prevents upper piece from drawing in.  Sorry, Norm.

 

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Pretty much the same for me. I went through my stashes and threw out all the slotted screws, but the phillips are equally unwelcome. Like you I use drywall screws for drywall (not that I do much of that) and square drive for everything else....when possible. I've found that local supplies of square drive are, well, limited.....or maybe non-existent. So torx fills in a few spots...you're correct, there are too many sizes of torx drivers.

Right on. I likewise stopped using Phillips maybe 25 years ago and slotted maybe 30 years ago. I had some Dewalt Torx bits and the bit actually shattered so I was not too happy with that. Never had trouble with square drive bits except they do eventually round off.

FWIW, most of the screws I have bought in the last 20 years (except for Kreg Pocket Hole screws) have come from wwhardware.com, Deerwood screws.  Unfortunately, they don't carry much but size #8, but that's 90% of what I use.  https://www.wwhardware.com/ultimate-square-drive-flat-head-screws-8-scus8

 

Forgot to mention, that I also hate the ones that are combo square and phillips, sometimes called Squipps.  They don't work well for either, but better for square.  I actually had a customer once that tried his phillips driver to remove a fastener and couldn't get it.  I used my square drive and amazed him.  My thought is that if you don't have the right screwdriver, you shouldnt be messing with it.   Electrical outlets sometimes have square+phillips+slot all in one.  Egad!   I found out recently that Milwaukee makes a driver and bits just for this mess of a screw head.  Sort of defeats the purpose, no?  Works on any, but you need a new bit to use it.

i build lots of things for out pistol range, including walls.  i intentionally use phillips head screws, on the basis that if you have a screw gun, you have a matching bit somewhere in your collection of bits that always follows the gun around, and therefore, if you needed to repair something, you'd be able to do so.  if i used a less common headed screw, it no doubt would be the one that you didn't have that day (square, torx).