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Eli5: Why does some furniture use Phillips head screws, while other use hex or torx? What are the advantages between the many different types?
gpt
a slot screw can't be tightened with a lot of force, usually you'll slip or snap the bit.
But you'll see it in common things where a lot of hold isn't needed due to being easy to find things to use as a flat head.

Philips Heads are common when needing to screw in multiple screws, but they aren't ideal for things of high hold where you need to make sure they go in tight and have to be removed and reused multple times I.e beds, as the heads can easily strip making them hard to remove or impossible to reuse again.

Furniture will more oftenly use hex because one, Allen keys usually give access to tighten things even in small places and at angels including the lack of need to make sure you apply pressure to the bit when tightening or loosening the screw unlike flat or Philips heads where you need to apply pressure while screwing in a screw, while the hex is also deeper and a lot harder to thred usually finding the Allen key will thred before the actually screw head.