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What's so "bloated" about Debian with task-lxde-desktop, or task-xfce-desktop?

• dewarrn1 12y ago
  Not bloat, configuration. That is, I suspect the parent comment is not suggesting that these Debian installations are bloated, but that their default configuration leaves much to be desired. In my own use, I found Crunchbang to have the UX polish of a large distro with the overhead of a minimal distro. An excellent combination that will be greatly missed.
  • phaer 12y ago
    What exactly are you missing? I found the desktop-task-packages on Debian testing quite usable without any configuration. If you haven't tried them for a year or two or if you just tested the stable release, I can recommend to take a fresh look at testing/the upcoming Jessie release. It has become much more polished over the last year or two.
    • morganvachon 12y ago
      I can only speak for myself, but I'm a big fan of Openbox when it's set up properly. Before I discovered Crunchbang, I would burn many hours getting Openbox to the way I liked it, installing certain packages and tweaking settings until I was exhausted from the effort. But in the end, I had a setup that got out of my way and let me focus on work. When I discovered Crunchbang, I was blown away. about 90% of what I set up for myself was already done here, with a slightly different theme and a few different default apps of course. But I found that with just an hour or so of tweaking I could get Crunchbang to the same state I would spend a weekend trying to get to on another distro. The differences between Crunchbang defaults and my own were usually improvements, and I decided to switch to better apps after giving them a go in Crunchbang (from Gedit to Geany for editing for example).
  • theandrewbailey 12y ago
    The default dark gray theme that it had was refreshing back in the day, just as everyone was falling over themselves with bright colors and transparency.