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What is the difference between CrunchBang and a standard Debian installation with Openbox as the window manager and no desktop environment (which has been my ex
by p4bl0 13y ago
What is the difference between CrunchBang and a standard Debian installation with Openbox as the window manager and no desktop environment (which has been my exact my setup for more than 5 years now) ?
From what I see CrunchBang is even less lightweight than my Debian + Openbox setup: for instance it comes with a graphical file manager (I see Thunar on the screenshots) and a lot of other software (graphical IDE, VLC…) that I might never need and would prefer to install on demand when I need them if that ever happens.
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- brusch 13y agoI think there is no advantage over what you're doing. It is just easier accessible for people new to Openbox
- p4bl0 13y agoOkay. That's a great thing, because Openbox is really awesome (no pun intended ^^).
- burkean 13y agoI like Crunchbang for political, not technical reasons. It doesn't matter to me if every package is vanilla Debian. Crunchbang provides an opinionated set of defaults for what a composable, 'minimal' Linux desktop might look like. These days, I would build what I want from a Debian base install. But the reason why I would care to do so, is that distros like Crunchbang showed me that the composable approach worked so well. It makes new Linux users care about playing with their environments, which, for good or ill, is a venerable long-time Free Software user preoccupation.