• Registered: 2009-02-06
  • Posts: 12

Topic: First day using Cruncheee

I just installed #! on my EeePC 904HD, here's my impression so far:

I love how all my hardware just worked out of the box with no extra configuration. I wish this distro would get more attention from blogs!

You probably have heard this before, but one of the first things I did was uninstall a bunch of apps that I never plan to use. Things like the clipboard applet and dillo were kinda silly to include. And why did you include 80something screensavers? Most of them are really ugly.

There's no default music player (VLC is great but you can't have a library and sort it). I installed rhythmbox but I am not sure if there is a lightweight alternative that has similar features. There's also no word processor, which I imagine just about everyone would need on their Eee. At least Abiword should ship by default!

For some reason powertop tells me Crunchee is sucking 12W as opposed to the 10W I used to get on Eeebuntu, both with nearly default configurations. What's up with that?

Look and feel:
Mostly perfect. I love dark themes! However, the volume icons suck. The "sound waves" are black and you can't see them on the black background. Speaking of which, the Fn-volume bindings aren't set out of the box.

The Usplash theme is great, nice and simple just like the desktop. However, the GDM log-in screen is disappointing. The rest of the distro is so thin and then the GDM comes along with a really fat ugly bottom bar. I'd learn how to make my own and submit it if college wasn't killing me

Firefox should ship with a custom theme. May I suggest Full Flat (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6971), a nice minimalist theme. Combined with the "Hide Menubar" plug-in, my top panel is pretty thin, maximizing my screen real estate smile

Thanks for making crunchee! I'll post more things later

Last edited by facepalm (2009-02-08 21:14:50)

  • Registered: 2009-01-23
  • Posts: 47

Re: First day using Cruncheee

Welcome to the forums and #!

Speaking about Firefox, I am running it with Full Flat and Hide Menubar on my 901 as well, but also added the Fission add-on to move the status bar to the address bar - every pixel helps ;-)

Not sure about the power consumption reported, but I do get about 20% more runtime out of #! than I used to from XP - can't speak for any other linux distro, as I did not keep any long enough to get a feel before #!

Another big difference - and I am still trying to figure out why - is the power consumption in standby. XP would "run out of juice" after 4 days suspend, #! still has almost 50% charge left at that point. I have a feeling it has something to do with power to the USB ports/peripherals in suspend.

It's the first distro I actually installed on my SSD and I am planning on keeping it there ;-)


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  • From: Humboldt County
  • Registered: 2009-02-09
  • Posts: 5

Re: First day using Cruncheee

Hey guys,

I also *just* installed Cruncheee on my 701 4g. I was also surprised by the amount of bloat that was included, and I've been trying to list all of the non necessary components so we can have a #! Lite for eee.

I have noticed a significant increase in battery life as well. Somewhere in the 20% range and that's compared to Kubuntu, OpenGeeeU, and ZenWalk. Well, ZenWalk also had unprecedented battery life.

Anyway, I also really enjoy running #!. Just wish I had a 901. . . .

  • Registered: 2009-02-06
  • Posts: 12

Re: First day using Cruncheee

Fission is awesome, thanks for the suggestion! I also got Foxmarks to sync with my desktop's bookmarks and passwords, which is super convenient.

Last edited by facepalm (2009-02-13 03:33:02)

  • Registered: 2009-08-30
  • Posts: 23

Re: First day using Cruncheee

Wow, full flat and fission are both great--thanks!

black eeepc 901 running #! kernel 2.6.27-8-eeepc-lean
  • Registered: 2009-09-18
  • Posts: 6

Re: First day using Cruncheee

Nice #!. Installed on custom made old Pentium 4 desktop computer. Run so smooth. The only problem is the scanner.