I voted other, and thus I can shamelessly advertise
I've been away from Slackware for quite some time now. Away from Slack?? Well, not entirely, I run Vector Linux 5.8 SOHO on my main machine, and Vector 5.9 Std brought live back to my old box.
Vector _is_ Slack, but in the best possible configuration
(if such a thing exists) for desktop use. So you have a complete working Slack desktop system including all your multi media and office applications in one run of the installer (<20 minutes).
And of course you finetune this to your needs as you'd do with any system, but the bulk of the work has been done.