Slackware is awesome and I spend more time with it (much more time actually) than with my girlfriend. I've tried other distros like Open Suse and Ubuntu but th

Slackware is awesome and I spend more time with it (much more time actually) than with my girlfriend. I've tried other distros like Open Suse and Ubuntu but they weren't for me. I don't need all the overhead to do simple thing that can be done by editing a text file. (Mint is pretty nice though... I install it sometimes for friends and family members). I appreciate the effort behind apt-get type package mangers, but often they often aren't up to date. With a slack build I get the latest source and know exactly what I am getting rather than installing some mysterious black box binary. Sure, apt-get might save 5 minutes but I'd rather spend the 5 minutes and do it right. Just my personal fetish. If you are new to Slack or Linux in general I recommend trying Slax or Porteus. Since they are live, you can change whatever you want and experiment, and just restart your machine when you inevitably bork something. This is how I came to Slackware in the first place. I needed a live distro for a kiosk I was building (was an Open Suse user at the time) and started taking apart and re-assembling Slax. Eventually the light went off in my head and I saw the beauty of simplicity and have never looked back.