I've never seen making Slackware look nice as a burden. Especially since I can generally just copy over config files.
I love Slackware for the simplicity and that's why I use it. So many of these feature filled pretty systems work nice.. until they don't. Unneeded features are just more stuff to learn and more stuff to break in my opinion. Slackware is a rock solid work horse and I know right where everything is and can change it if I need to.
But to tell the truth, just give me a nice Unix terminal and a web browser and I don't really care that much what it's sitting on.
I love Slackware for the simplicity and that's why I use it. So many of these feature filled pretty systems work nice.. until they don't. Unneeded features are just more stuff to learn and more stuff to break in my opinion. Slackware is a rock solid work horse and I know right where everything is and can change it if I need to.
But to tell the truth, just give me a nice Unix terminal and a web browser and I don't really care that much what it's sitting on.