which lunix distro?

I've used Slackware since 1994 but I'm looking for something that isn't such a pain in the ass.  I've learned everything I need to learn from Slackware's pain-in-the-assness, so I want to take it easy and use a more user-friendly distribution.

Is Ubuntu any good?  Fedora?  What about Mandrake?  Gentoo?

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Troll, troll, troll, I will feed you troll pellets.

No, they don't "have" to be written in C.  And if you're going to be anal about raw uber-performance, Fortran is the way to go, whether you like it or not.  But, no, it's not so much as "write it in C/Fortran" as much as it is "don't write it in a shitty language."  This means you could write a BitTorrent client that's fast in C just as much as you can write a fast BT client in Common LISP, Python, or even Perl and you can sleep at night.  But you are a faggot if you choose Java for anything, because it's a shitty language and you shouldn't write anything at all in it.