Re: the crunchbang philosophy
Hi Centaclaus, and welcome here.
As some already said, customizing ubuntu to make it more crunchbang-like will cost you lots of efforts and research.
Crunchbang is not only replacing gnome by openbox, some other stuff is customized (pulseaudio removed or something like that).
Finally after some months spent playing around with distros installs and customizations, I join the idea of omns:
It's nice setting up a box just to your liking. These days I'm just happy to let Philip do it all for me
Vaio VGN-FE21H with Crunchbang lite 9.04
no more proprietary OS at home, and still no printer