diff --git a/.github/linters/.flake8 b/.github/linters/.flake8
deleted file mode 100644
index e30e76b99..000000000
--- a/.github/linters/.flake8
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-[flake8]
-select: "F402,F404,F812,F823,F831,F821,F822,E112,E113,E901,E902,E999"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-flake.yml b/.github/workflows/build-flake.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 3393b7908..000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/build-flake.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-# This workflow will install Python dependencies, run tests and lint with a single version of Python
-# For more information see: https://help.github.com/actions/language-and-framework-guides/using-python-with-github-actions
-
-name: Check module can be imported
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches: [ "dev" ]
-  pull_request:
-    branches: [ "dev" ]
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
-jobs:
-  build:
-
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-    - name: Set up Python 3.10
-      uses: actions/setup-python@v3
-      with:
-        python-version: "3.10"
-    - name: Install dependencies
-      run: |
-        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-        pip install flake8 pytest
-        if [ -f requirements.txt ]; then pip install -r requirements.txt; fi
-    - name: Lint with flake8
-      run: |
-        # stop the build if there are Python syntax errors or undefined names
-        flake8 . --count --select=E9,F63,F7,F82 --show-source --statistics
-        # exit-zero treats all errors as warnings. The GitHub editor is 127 chars wide
-        # flake8 . --count --exit-zero --max-complexity=10 --max-line-length=127 --statistics
-    - name: Test that the module imports
-      run: |
-        pip install .
-        python -c "import py4DSTEM; print(py4DSTEM.__version__)"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/linter.yml b/.github/workflows/linter.yml
index 3e8071f6f..2537fc983 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/linter.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/linter.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: Check for errors with flake8
+name: Lint with super-linter@v5-slim
 
 on:
   push:
@@ -17,9 +17,14 @@ jobs:
           fetch-depth: 0
 
       - name: Lint Code Base
-        uses: github/super-linter@v4
+        uses: super-linter/super-linter/slim@v5 # updated to latest slim as quicker to download 
         env:
-          VALIDATE_ALL_CODEBASE: false
-          VALIDATE_PYTHON_FLAKE8: true
-          DEFAULT_BRANCH: "dev"
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          VALIDATE_ALL_CODEBASE: false # only check changes
+          VALIDATE_PYTHON_FLAKE8: true # lint with flake8
+          DEFAULT_BRANCH: "dev" # set default branch to dev
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} # for github things
+          # FILTER_REGEX_EXCLUDE: .*test/.* # exclude test dirs
+          FILTER_REGEX_EXCLUDE: .*__init__.py/.* # exclude test dirs
+          FILTER_REGEX_INCLUDE: .*py4DSTEM/.* # only look for py4DSTEM
+          LINTER_RULES_PATH: / # set toplevel dir as the path to look for rules
+          PYTHON_FLAKE8_CONFIG_FILE: .flake8 # set specific config file