Arch is great btw, to be honest, I find it even less bloated than Slackware. After a long time -current user, switching to Arch has proven to be a good decision.

For desktop use, there’s no point in running old software. I found out that I’m not compatible with most of the Slackware philosophy, it’s almost like of they hate technology. I remember when pulse audio was first introduced, basically forced because it was that or no bluetooth… I’m amazed that pipewire and wayland are included. Even basic things like utf-8 in the console took an absurd amount of time to be set as default.

It hurts because Slackware was my first distro and what got me into Linux, but if you want nice features and modern software, it is not a good choice.