what do you have to lose? Slack is easy to pick up and easy to maintain. You may want to consider trying sbopkg or similar if you find the package manager lac

what do you have to lose? Slack is easy to pick up and easy to maintain. You may want to consider trying sbopkg or similar if you find the package manager lacking, but it's worth noting that Slackware comes with a ton of great software in the base system (libraries and daemons)