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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 coup
by 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.