I stopped being autistic enough to use Gentoo recently, and needed a new distro. I also didn't really feel like spending 3 days installing Gentoo again for my new laptop.
I ended up landing on Slackware, and it has been a great distro so far. Current on my laptop, Stable elsewhere.
For me as someone who primarily uses KDE and its apps, its all there by default and I don't have to spend 2 days compiling it all like I did on Gentoo. Its a very easy 15 or so minute install with an actual installer, breath of fresh air to me.
For some retarded reason Plasma 6 isn't included yet in Current, although its reasonably easy to install after the fact with the 3rd party kde6town repository.
Only apps that were really missing for me out of the box were a good Office suite (Calligra is included but I don't like it, so installed OnlyOffice) and video player (mpv is finally in current after being avoided for an awful long time, but I prefer VLC).
3rd party apps are easy to manage with slackpkg+ (binaries) and sbopkg (Slackbuilds, requires compiling), far easier to manage then dealing with emerge.
No dependency management has not been a problem for me because so much stuff is included by default, and when extra dependencies are required it is easy to find out what you need.
Very stable distro despite being about as bleeding edge as Arch, on Current. I haven't had any breakage like I often did on Arch and rarely Gentoo.
Stable is easily the most stable distro I've used, in its own tier above RHEL and Debian etc. Although it is getting quite old by now so newer hardware like my Framework laptop doesn't work.
A huge amount of stuff is installed by default, but bloat isn't a concern to me anyways so I don't care. I like playing around with new apps I've never heard of.
Probably going to keep it around for a while.
