i use slackware, and fluxbox as the WM, i have to have things 'fit' me perfectly or i cant use them, if i buy some clothes they must 'fit' me perfectly or i cant wear them, its the same with my OS environment. the first distro i used was fedora core 4 with KDE, which almost turned me off linux for life, KDE (a desktop environment) is WAYYYYY to much for me, so many options, so much rubbish to look at, TOO MUCH. then i tried Vector linux and it gave me a choice of window managers and i tried fluxbox, and that was it. i prefer to add things as i need them, not to have a whole load of programs sitting there waiting for me to use one day. i dont even have desktop wallpaper, just a black background, which when i right click to bring the blue-ish fluxbox menu up, looks rather simple and elegant
slackware just works for me, and im very pleased learning and working with it.