Re: Happy Birthday (Happy Birthday-yay-yay)
That part about not obfuscating networking configuration might actually be reason enough to try Slackware.
It was the first Linux I saw someone using but I wasn't ready to learn anything other than DOS/Windows in elementary school sadly.
It was nice to learn that this is a modern distro in many ways that tries to automate some churn away. I did try Arch briefly but landed on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (also a rolling distro like Arch) for a chance to learn something a little different since running Ubuntu and it's derivatives all these years.