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Crunchbang is my most favorite distribution. For the last 2 years I found it perfect for my needs, especially on slightly older machines. Originally I came from
by novalis78 12y ago
Crunchbang is my most favorite distribution. For the last 2 years I found it perfect for my needs, especially on slightly older machines. Originally I came from SuSe, moved on to Red Hat and Fedora, then played with Gentoo for a while. Ubuntu is great, but with each version the out-of-the-box experience became less and less desirable. Crunchbang (which I discovered on HN, btw) was minimalist (but not painfully so) and shared Ubuntu's robustness.
- novaleaf 12y agoas the article mentions, give debian a try. It's everything you just described about crunchbang.
- wooger 12y agoApart from things like: * WiFi on my x230 in Wheezy doesn't work ootb, it does in Crunchbang. * Install debian and openbox and you get a barely configured desktop without a panel, with no power management, no network applet, no decent fonts etc. It takes a bunch of work to get Debian up to the level of Crunchbang, enough to put off novice users.
- novalis78 12y agoany suggestions besides Lubuntu and Xubuntu? Something that's closer to the simplicity and "just working" state of crunchbang?
- smellf 12y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9009691 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9009691
- edwintorok 12y agoI haven't used crunchbang before, but having tried XFCE and MATE on Debian Jessie recently I have found MATE to provide a better experience. The only bug I've encountered is that taskbar icons don't work for Qt5 applications.
- smellf 12y ago> enough to put off novice users Or even experienced users who don't want to spend all their time configuring the minutae of desktop software.