Am I old fashioned in that I usually run CentOS for my workstation? After a year or two it can be a pain getting some third party RPM, but generally I find that's a pain I'm willing to deal with to not have to worry about updating my workstation until I want to.

Although, I do port my highly customized Fvwm2 config every time I update, so maybe it is just me being old fashioned. Although I think anyone that thinks most modern WM are "fast" really is missing a bit of perspective. You haven't seen fast or efficient until you've custom tweaked a Fvwm2 config (or something equivalent).