Diving off in a different direction, my very first distribution was Slackware and I currently have a Slackware-Current configuration running on my laptop.
I recently changed it to start at run level 4, so it gets me to the GUI login and I login to the Xfce desktop environment. I really ought to set it up to start fvwm, the first window manager I used, or fvwm-crystal, the almost desktop environment based on fvwm!