I'm just using mint so I can use virtualbox to run Slackware to learn that. I tried it on MX linux but it's running on a usb stick and I think the problems I had with the installer and updater for slackware were because of that setup with the usb stick. THis will be on a sata drive so I think that may make it more functional. Then I can learn more about openbox, fluxbox, compiling programs from source and other stuff that is mostly automated nowadays. I think I'll also try to run straight Arch which is supposed to make you better with linux since it isn't really hugely automated and I'll catch on by repetition of doing stuff manually.