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I _really_ need to understand, why the hell do you guys have such weird emotional allegiances to linux distributions? Do a ubuntu minimal install and install o

I _really_ need to understand, why the hell do you guys have such weird emotional allegiances to linux distributions? Do a ubuntu minimal install and install openbox. In one fell swoop you've created something at least as good as crunchbang! Holy fuck! I can understand why the l33t skiddie does it; they're anal about spending hours making their desktops shiny and tricked out with chinese cartoon backgrounds. I just expect a little more... productivity from hn.

gareim 12y ago
It's the configurations that kept me on it for so long! Things just worked out of the box and it was amazing. I did a minimal install of arch + the necessary components once (and a netinst of Debian too) but it wasn't the same because my configurations never went deep enough. I always ended up getting frustrated having to do it all myself. These days, I just use virtual machines when I need Linux, but I'd switch back to Crunchbang if multi monitor (one output from motherboard, one from gpu) worked better.
- joshuapants 12y ago
  This is the thing people tend to miss, I think. There are a large number of people who don't like GNOME/KDE/Unity/whatever but who also don't want to take the time and effort to assemble the whole thing from pieces. I did the same thing with Arch, as well as with Void Linux. Void, in particular, is a distro I find very interesting and would like to use, but the hours I would spend making a usable desktop for myself (assuming I would even succeed, and prior experience has shown that not to be the case) are better spent elsewhere.
dredmorbius 12y ago
I've got to say, I'm a bit perplexed at distros being based on what are effectively different Debian package seeds / dselect files.
morganvachon 12y ago
Nothing emotional about it, it's all about practicality for me. As I've said in a previous discussion, Crunchbang had in the default install what took me a couple of days to get with a bare base installation of Debian or Slackware. It was very, very close to what I already set up for myself, so I began to use Crunchbang and just spend an hour or so tweaking it to my liking, rather than days manually installing everything I used. > Do a ubuntu minimal install and install openbox. In one fell swoop you've created something at least as good as crunchbang! That's how I know you've never actually used Crunchbang; it's a lot more than "Debian with Openbox". Corenominal's scripts, layout, app choices, tweaks, and other modifications are more than enough for it to qualify as a standalone Debian-based distro, rather than "Debian with Openbox". > I just expect a little more... productivity from hn. Productivity is exactly why I like Crunchbang. Instead of spending those hours upon hours tweaking vanilla Debian, I can dive in and focus on real work, letting the OS fade into the background.

gareim 12y ago

It's the configurations that kept me on it for so long! Things just worked out of the box and it was amazing. I did a minimal install of arch + the necessary components once (and a netinst of Debian too) but it wasn't the same because my configurations never went deep enough. I always ended up getting frustrated having to do it all myself. These days, I just use virtual machines when I need Linux, but I'd switch back to Crunchbang if multi monitor (one output from motherboard, one from gpu) worked better.

joshuapants 12y ago
This is the thing people tend to miss, I think. There are a large number of people who don't like GNOME/KDE/Unity/whatever but who also don't want to take the time and effort to assemble the whole thing from pieces. I did the same thing with Arch, as well as with Void Linux. Void, in particular, is a distro I find very interesting and would like to use, but the hours I would spend making a usable desktop for myself (assuming I would even succeed, and prior experience has shown that not to be the case) are better spent elsewhere.

dredmorbius 12y ago

I've got to say, I'm a bit perplexed at distros being based on what are effectively different Debian package seeds / dselect files.

morganvachon 12y ago

Nothing emotional about it, it's all about practicality for me. As I've said in a previous discussion, Crunchbang had in the default install what took me a couple of days to get with a bare base installation of Debian or Slackware. It was very, very close to what I already set up for myself, so I began to use Crunchbang and just spend an hour or so tweaking it to my liking, rather than days manually installing everything I used. > Do a ubuntu minimal install and install openbox. In one fell swoop you've created something at least as good as crunchbang! That's how I know you've never actually used Crunchbang; it's a lot more than "Debian with Openbox". Corenominal's scripts, layout, app choices, tweaks, and other modifications are more than enough for it to qualify as a standalone Debian-based distro, rather than "Debian with Openbox". > I just expect a little more... productivity from hn. Productivity is exactly why I like Crunchbang. Instead of spending those hours upon hours tweaking vanilla Debian, I can dive in and focus on real work, letting the OS fade into the background.