I started with Slackware (~18 years ago) but it was just pain with no standard package manager. Sure, later I found slapt-get and I turned to dropline-gnome at

I started with Slackware (~18 years ago) but it was just pain with no standard package manager. Sure, later I found slapt-get and I turned to dropline-gnome at some point. But moving to any apt distro, Mandrake, Arch or even Gentoo just felt like a warm bath to me back in the day.