Looking back picking Slackware as my desktop OS 20+ years ago was such a great career building move. I ran Slackware plus an obscure and now defunct source base

Looking back picking Slackware as my desktop OS 20+ years ago was such a great career building move. I ran Slackware plus an obscure and now defunct source based package manager for 10 years and the experience and mindset has stuck with me ever since, even if I don't use Slackware anymore and newer ran it in a professional setting. Slackware doesn't try to hide anything from you, it takes the long way around, but it does so in order to do the correct thing, and in a way where it's clear to you why things function the way they do. In some ways Slackware is hard to use, but it's also less frustrating and you don't hit exceedingly hard problems where you feel like the OS is fighting you.