Slackware
- the most rock stable distro imo. No systemd or snap stuff. Packages are almost (if not fully) vanilla version from upstream. Simple yet efficient unix-style approach to everything like package management, slackbuilds are really good too.
Slackware
DDG is a proxy to Bing AFAIk, their results are pretty much the same. Not bad for English language.
I usually use WindowMaker or FVWM but as a desktop environment... CDE