The funny thing is that a lot of us older people started with Slackware back in the late 1990's, only because early Debian and Redhat builds on the Infomagic CD's were too broken to install or run reliably. Slackware 2.0 was pretty rock solid by comparison and installed out of the box on most PC hardware I could find at the time.
I switched (end of the 90's) from Redhat to Slackware and never looked back. Got tired of having to use "-f" to install rpms because of circular dependencies. Debian had the same problem.
