• Registered: 2009-05-04
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Topic: One thing I hate/love about #! as my main OS.

#! has given me no rational excuse to buy new high-end hardware. In fact my trajectory since switching to it has been in precisely the opposite direction...

Starting with a 2.2 core 2 duo Unibody Macbook, to an 1.6 atom ASUS EeePC 900A, now on a 1.5 Pentium M X31 IBM thinkpad. Somewhere along the way I added an old P4 desktop (also #!, and Win7). Now I sit around trying to figure out if I can pick up that 50 dollar PIII laptop to use as a music-file & non-hd-video server for the living room.

I've gone from 1 computer at about 1500 dollars, to looking at picking up my 3rd at a total cost of <500.

#! (and now its derivates like squeezebang) makes computer hoarding all too financially feasible.

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  • Registered: 2009-02-09
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Re: One thing I hate/love about #! as my main OS.

Thats funny,,,,I have my buddies out scrounging up old CrapTops for me.

For pretty much similar reasons.Its fairly easy to make old computers usable again with a distro like this.

Once i get them up and running i usually pass them off on family and friends trying to spread the linux word.
When they ask me to put windows on it,,I say why would you want that,,This works perfect.

  • Registered: 2009-11-25
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Re: One thing I hate/love about #! as my main OS.

I'll jump on this as well. #! has made this 900A and it's 4g SSD a perfectly usable computer for my day to day so I don't have to drag my giant 17" Acer Windows work machine around everywhere.

I distro hopped for a little while after picking this 900A up, knowing very little about Linux in general, and then came across #!. I've gone from my original Crunchee install to now running #! 9.04 full and kernel 2.6.30 and am very happy with acpi and streaming video playback working well now.

Now I have #! running on this 900A, an old Gateway P4 desktop, and soon to be my coworkers discarded 4 year old Sony VAIO.

  • Registered: 2009-09-10
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Re: One thing I hate/love about #! as my main OS.

#! hinders my distro hopping. I had planned on trying out dozens of distros on my eeepc 1000h. But #! was about the 3rd I tried. I pretty much stopped after that, because it was so awesome. So in the last year I've really only seriously tried one other distro: Arch Linux. Then I made it look just like #! anyway. But I haven't yet got everything set up and working in Arch, wifi and acpi hot keys being the main things to sort out before I could use it as my main OS on my eee. So until then, #!crunchbang it is!

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  • Registered: 2009-09-28
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Re: One thing I hate/love about #! as my main OS.

I honestly can't say anything bad about #!.  It's as solid of a Desktop distro as you can get without useless windows/macesque cheese.  Yes, there are apps in standard that I don't use, but what the heck... it's Philips desktop, these are the apps he likes using.. it is what it is.  SO I really admire that and just uninstall whatever doesn't suit me... which is pretty much like 2 out of 50 apps tongue !!

You guys are definitely kindred spirits.  I've dropped from a dual core ride with high end pci express video, down to a p4 1.8 512 gb ram and nvidia 16mb video card!!! that's like 1/3 the system I was using.  It's nice to see an OS that can run so well on affordable machines.

I use #! for school, business, and my hobbies (building a personal distro kind of like philips and alot of others on here)  It's just solid as f***

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  • Registered: 2009-12-29
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Re: One thing I hate/love about #! as my main OS.

I can say a bad thing, well, not necessary a bad thing, but kind of a drawback - it's ubuntu based, and I really don't like ubuntu that much, it's hardware detection is far from superb and well, its short release lifetime and somehow lack of stability in the packages, at least compared with debian. smile

  • Registered: 2010-03-06
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Re: One thing I hate/love about #! as my main OS.

I just went out and bought an i5 3.2 ghz pc and intended to run Crunchbang on it, because in my opinion there will never be a computer that is "fast enough"  Although my new computer running Ubuntu with gnome and all visual effects maxed out is faster than Crunchbang on my old computer, I couldn't help but wonder how fast it would be with Crunchbang installed.  Unfortunately, crunchbang didn't recognize my lan and sound so that I could install it.  Now I'm waiting for the new version of Crunchbang while I reluctantly us Ubuntu.

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  • Registered: 2010-03-14
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Re: One thing I hate/love about #! as my main OS.

#!:  Windows trash becomes Linux treasure

Lots to love about #!.  I'm using the same box I bought 10 years ago on the desktop and it works just fine!  Seriously, when you have just 384MB RAM, finding something that boots like a cheetah and runs at ~100MB RAM is awesome.  Then when you realize that you can do most everything on it that you can do on a much newer system because software is up to date, that's incredible.  When I installed it, I began the usual tweaking protocol for this box only to find that much of it was not necessary; went to plug in my ethernet cable and noticed that the troublesome Broadcom card I had forgotten about using had already established a connection.  All the codecs and flash just work.  And the thing is actually rather zippy, too!

Things that bug me--wouldn't say hate--about using it are mostly issues with hardware limitations and Ubuntu methodology.  AbiWord doesn't cut it for me, I need OpenOffice, but it is so heavy an app.  Having to manually edit menus is a tough sell when resurrecting friends' hardware.  The hack job necessary to get a current version of Firefox (Ubuntu retardation.  I swear I have upgraded Ubuntu just to get this right for a couple months.).  The most excellent 'System Update' script doesn't recognize APT pinning yet.

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Re: One thing I hate/love about #! as my main OS.

I have access to several shiny new machines but prefer to bang away on my old R51 thinkpad with a minimal setup. It's funky keeping these old machines usable and relatively well performed.

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  • Registered: 2009-06-29
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Re: One thing I hate/love about #! as my main OS.

omns wrote:

I have access to several shiny new machines but prefer to bang away on my old R51 thinkpad with a minimal setup. It's funky keeping these old machines usable and relatively well performed.

I feel the same way. Computers i still have laying around that I regard as trash, as they still work but have become to old to run a recent version of Windows, and are crippled with viruses anyways, are suddenly completely viable machines.

It's amazing, one computer I have (P3, 128MB Ram) looks like it belongs in the dump, yet runs #! lite admirably.

I think what twists your feelings is that this P.O.S. machine like above, is on par performance wise with something much newer. In the computer world, this never happens. 2 years + and the computer is ancient! Giving new life to computers like these, is very interesting!

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  • Registered: 2009-05-04
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Re: One thing I hate/love about #! as my main OS.

omns wrote:

bang away on my old R51 thinkpad with a minimal setup.

There's something about the #! aesthetic that matches a thinkpad so perfectly.

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  • Registered: 2009-12-11
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Re: One thing I hate/love about #! as my main OS.

For me, Crunchbang is terrible. Sadly, I paid in full up-front so I guess I'm stuck with it. I'll persevere, though.

big_smile

I have, actually, found a mistake. An oversight. An error.

Main Menu>Help>Fequently Asked Questions [sic]

Phil, you dolt. Sort it out!!!!


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  • Registered: 2009-01-22
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Re: One thing I hate/love about #! as my main OS.

I just picked up an awesome little Hi-Grade micro-Media PC for £150 - it's 5-6 years old and runs ubuntu karmic fine, so I'm expecting great things when I try Statler out for the first time on it big_smile.

eee pc 901 - CrunchEee
i7 920, 6GB DDR3, nVidia 9600GT - #! 9.04
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  • From: Florida, Occupied C.S.A.
  • Registered: 2009-04-25
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Re: One thing I hate/love about #! as my main OS.

#! lets me "feel geeky" without the fuss. I've run into a few li'l issues with Statler, but all the help I've needed has been right here in these very helpful and cordial forums. If I had to pick just one favorite thing about Crunchbang, that would be it - these forums and this community!

Proud to be a little part of it,
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  • Registered: 2010-04-23
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Re: One thing I hate/love about #! as my main OS.

#! allows me to get a 6/7 year old computer up and running smile

It's got an ADM Athlon XP 2500+ (1400 MHz, 512 Kb cache) with as much as 1 GB of RAM (the only part of the actual computer, other than the HDD that got upgraded over time) running perfectly for me. No crashes whatsoever, unlike Xubuntu, which accompanied it before Crunchbang. And before that, Windows XP was installed, for around 6 years, but that became quite a dreadful experience over time. Everything was awfully slow and buggy, and nothing ever seemed to work.

I love Crunchbang for making it possible for this computer to perform beautifully smile

(since one can never have too many computers big_smile)