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Re: Why do you use #!Crunchbang

franzer wrote:

I originally joined the forum for the tips, tricks and scripts subforum... Thanks for the good work here!

And now you've fallen into the script-trap of installing *the OS*. [insert mad scientist laugh here....] First franzer, tomorrow, the World! Or maybe Oracle! [insert more mad scientist laugh here....]

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  • Registered: 2009-05-05
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Re: Why do you use #!Crunchbang

Sorry, didn't bother to read the 11 previous pages:

Here's why I use Crunchbang:

It works,
It is unobtrusive,
It is very fast,
It lets my netbook fan remain silent,
It does not get in my way (once it runs properly),
It is minimalistic, elegant and beautiful.
It never has a cluttered desktop.
It is a work of art
It keeps me productive.

I can get all the software I need for free via synaptic.
I am very happy I found #!

Thank you corenominal. I really deeply appreciate your efforts.

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Re: Why do you use #!Crunchbang

I like that its debian based,
Pretty small group doing the job, they listen to ideas and.such.
Layout and colours are super, deffo not a Ram hog so fits.almost Ang computer.
Openbox is great, and last but.not last a great forum community

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  • From: Washington, UK
  • Registered: 2010-05-05
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Re: Why do you use #!Crunchbang

Hi all,

#! finally my main Linux Distro.

I chose #! as looking for an uncluttered setup. Like the fact that it based on a rolling Debian release, as I got bored of changing to the "latest distro every 6 months!"

Forum is friendly etc.

Many thanks,
Tim

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  • Registered: 2011-01-02
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Re: Why do you use #!Crunchbang

I use it because I always wanted to try openbox, and because I'm a big minimalist, when I tried crunchbang, it was pretty much love at first site.

"Of course it's happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?" -Albus Dumbledore
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  • Registered: 2010-10-13
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Re: Why do you use #!Crunchbang

Minimalist, love #! It's fast, versatile. efficient. It's a distro that fit's me as a person smile
Use it to watch movies on my lappy, categorizing my vinyl collection, listening to tunes. Recording stuff in Audacity. And recently I started making tunes when I'm not in the studio, with Sunvox (a nice little tracker that helps me take the edge off when I'm on the go..)
Got introduced to the world of Linux with openSUSE. Went distro hopping since then to find a distro that I can relate to and voila...here I am..

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  • Registered: 2011-01-08
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Re: Why do you use #!Crunchbang

Openbox, minimalist, easy on system resources, Debian-based. #! is now my default OS on all my computers big_smile

  • Registered: 2011-01-07
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Re: Why do you use #!Crunchbang

Why I use #!?

Was just in the bookstore where I played with a Dell Mini running WIndows 7...it was idling at 535MB's with NO applications running.

With my cheap Acer Aspire One running #!, Conky, a terminal session, Chrome browser with connection, Wine windows emulator, 2 (two) of each: MS Access, MS Word, MS Excel...I'm using 452MB's big_smile

...and that's why I use #!...

Bio...

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  • From: The White Mountains
  • Registered: 2010-05-05
  • Posts: 5,655

Re: Why do you use #!Crunchbang

biology-geek wrote:

Why I use #!?

Was just in the bookstore where I played with a Dell Mini running WIndows 7...it was idling at 535MB's with NO applications running.

With my cheap Acer Aspire One running #!, Conky, a terminal session, Chrome browser with connection, Wine windows emulator, 2 (two) of each: MS Access, MS Word, MS Excel...I'm using 452MB's big_smile

...and that's why I use #!...

Bio...

That's a pretty good reason!  Sure can't fault you for that!

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  • Registered: 2011-01-16
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Re: Why do you use #!Crunchbang

I like lightweight distros, especially lightweight windows environments. Don't see much reason to waste resources on menus and  window decorations!

I've grown to like  Debian-based distros, haven't had too many issues with dependencies and software installation.

I want  something lightweight so I can get on with my hobby of music production (and that's probably a bit  of an exaggeration!). I have a couple of synthesisers, enjoy using Renoise and also Reaper (under wine).

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  • Registered: 2011-01-12
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Re: Why do you use #!Crunchbang

It's lightweight, but more importantly, it's just as usable as the more bloated distros, if not more so because it's also so lightweight. On an old P3, 256 RAM, and terrible on-board video laptop, I was very surprised when I could run a YouTube video at the standard quality without the video lagging, and I might even be able to watch higher-quality videos. I had issues running even 240p video in Ubuntu. Not so anymore! I used to have to start the flash stream, minimise the window, switch to another desktop, then start VLC to watch what I wanted to (normally, assorted anime's).


Furthermore, beyond the basics, there are very many little bits of it that make me happy. The way the title bar displays the button as small, hiding dots is great, in my opinion, the date and time in the bottom are already in the format I had wanted them in... the black style is great (much of this has to do with black pretty much being my school colour, with gold accents)... Conky is great, and I'm going to spend a good chunk of my weekend weeding through the possibilities on the thread... Even the cb-fortune bit that pops up makes me love #! that much more...

One of the reasons that I didn't go for Puppy for a lightweight distro was the flavour of the distros, and #! was every bit as flavourful as I had expected. (If you don't mind the expression.)

Sorry for the run-on sentence, and the lack of coherence, but... there ya go.

If you understand, the world is just the way it is. If you don't understand, the world is just the way it is. -- Zen Proverb
  • Registered: 2011-01-20
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Re: Why do you use #!Crunchbang

Well a story from a newbie. . .

When i first started looking into Linux I was drawn by the fact that everything was opensource and free. the problem was figuring out the differences between different distros. So of course i looked at reviews on youtube but the only problem was i didn't know any of the distros names so of course i would just type in Linux and mostly find ubuntu. After trying it for 2/3 weeks I became board and overall it didn't sit well with me. So in my future exploration of Linux i came across a channel called "This week in linux" after watching something like 50 of his videos (and going over my internet cap that month, oops big_smile) there was a recent video quickly mentioning #! and peppermint Linux. SO i hit youtube for a review and low and behold there was none!?!?!?!?! this made me think it must be some small distro but dont knock it till you try it. so i looked on disro watch to get some basic info. As soon as i saw it was a light weight distro besed on debian (WIN i love rolling releases) and that the theme was clean cut and black and white (Another WIN) I thought it was perfect. After going through the forms and reading the blog,  what really sold me is the community/development team relationship. because the distro is a smaller one people can have their voice herd about what should be included and introduced. So far this is why i like Crunch Bang so much. (and its only been a week)

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  • Registered: 2010-05-05
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Re: Why do you use #!Crunchbang

madprops wrote:

Well a story from a newbie. . .

Welcome aboard!  Soon a month, then a year ... get the picture?

We are a good group here ... well, most, I'm under the magnifying glass at times.  big_smile

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  • Registered: 2011-01-21
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Re: Why do you use #!Crunchbang

Well, the main reasons that make me use #! is

1) not a heavy distro
2) the community

It's like the forum is part of the distro. I read a lot of the threads here, and I learned more than by googling around! And the friendlyness seems to be overwhelming the place smile

I also found many reasons to use Openbox which I found in the past being too frugal. With the out-of-the-box config of  #!, I must say that this wm is maybe the best choice for me, not spending hours to setup everything.

This may be a distro of a few, but it's maybe one of a few distro I like so far!

Having installed ubuntu for six monthes for one day finding everything buggy (really really buggy) for apparently no reason, I think that #! may be the one smile

  • Registered: 2010-12-29
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Re: Why do you use #!Crunchbang

I came from being a faithful Puppy user.  I wanted something that used more Linux mainstream packages.  When I found Crunchbang, I knew I had found it.  It's as if Corenominal 'knows' me and created something just for me.

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Re: Why do you use #!Crunchbang

kernel wrote:

I came from being a faithful Puppy user.  I wanted something that used more Linux mainstream packages.  When I found Crunchbang, I knew I had found it.  It's as if Corenominal 'knows' me and created something just for me.

He did!  We just got here first. we're the kernel-testers lol
See that how #! is different, they have beta testers.

Welcome to #!

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Re: Why do you use #!Crunchbang

Sector11 wrote:
kernel wrote:

I came from being a faithful Puppy user.  I wanted something that used more Linux mainstream packages.  When I found Crunchbang, I knew I had found it.  It's as if Corenominal 'knows' me and created something just for me.

He did!  We just got here first. we're the kernel-testers lol
See that how #! is different, they have beta testers.

Welcome to #!

Lol!   And here I didn't even know how special I was, having my own distro developer and testers.

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Re: Why do you use #!Crunchbang

kernel wrote:
Sector11 wrote:
kernel wrote:

I came from being a faithful Puppy user.  I wanted something that used more Linux mainstream packages.  When I found Crunchbang, I knew I had found it.  It's as if Corenominal 'knows' me and created something just for me.

He did!  We just got here first. we're the kernel-testers lol
See that how #! is different, they have beta testers.

Welcome to #!

Lol!   And here I didn't even know how special I was, having my own distro developer and testers.

Oh oh - - - wait a sec, maybe you're not "that" kernel!
What is your compile date and version?

big_smile

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  • Registered: 2010-07-02
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Re: Why do you use #!Crunchbang

Brummbrumm wrote:

Sorry, didn't bother to read the 11 previous pages:

Here's why I use Crunchbang:

It works,
It is unobtrusive,
It is very fast,
It lets my netbook fan remain silent,
It does not get in my way (once it runs properly),
It is minimalistic, elegant and beautiful.
It never has a cluttered desktop.
It is a work of art
It keeps me productive.

I can get all the software I need for free via synaptic.
I am very happy I found #!

Thank you corenominal. I really deeply appreciate your efforts.

Pretty much what I had to say about !#. I am not new to Linux as I been using Linux since waaaay back in 1994 and Slackware was my first distro and didn't want to ever be bound by Microsoft. Over the years I have tried many distros, and think I found a good distro in !#.

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  • Registered: 2010-07-02
  • Posts: 1,274

Re: Why do you use #!Crunchbang

I love cunrchbang because it uses a minimal amount of resources but doesn't waste time trying to use up 128mb of hard drive space like some "minimal" distros. I like how I don't need to install dvd codecs and flash and things like that work out of the box. The look and feel of crunchbang has completely changed my perspective of operating systems in general, and even if I use another distro for some reason these days, I find myself having to "crunchbangify" it with tint2, conky, openbox, dmenu, etc.

  • Registered: 2011-02-09
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Re: Why do you use #!Crunchbang

I have Linux Mint Julia 10 & LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) as my (supposed) main distro's. I recently downloaded CrunchBang to get experience of using Openbox etc. anything other than full on Gnome or KDE.
My first surprise was the Debian base, fantastic, and so stable (part of the reason I love LMDE.) Openbox is so hackable too, in fact it wants to be hacked! Exactly what I was looking for.
So #! has inadvertently turned from a 'test' distro into my main one. Everything works, very fast. Defiantly the next stage in my personal Linux evolution smile

  • From: Germany
  • Registered: 2011-02-15
  • Posts: 116

Re: Why do you use #!Crunchbang

Hi folks,

the really first reason: Old, old, old hardware. I've tried Linux Mint Debian LMDE 2010.12.
but it froze to often!

Then, I installed #!, and wonder - the old hardware runs like a new Desktop computer!


Thousand thanks for that great distro!!

Have a nice day!

Regards

"If you can dream it, you can do it!" [Walt Disney]
  • From: Ballwin (St. Louis), MO
  • Registered: 2010-03-20
  • Posts: 226

Re: Why do you use #!Crunchbang

1) It properly detects the Broadcom wireless card in my wife's laptop (one of few distros to do so).
2) It's Debian-based
3) It's a rolling-release distro

Basically, #! just happened to have those three things I was looking for in a distribution, and the fact that it's more of a minimalist distro wasn't even a factor in my decision, since I have a computer with 1GB of RAM.  Also, Xfce is my favorite desktop environment, and the fact that it comes in an Xfce version is a nice plus too, although even if it didn't, it's no problem at all to download and install it via Synaptic, of course.

Just who is General Failure and what's he doing reading my hard drive?

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  • Registered: 2010-12-08
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Re: Why do you use #!Crunchbang

It's a very light weight hosting OS for all my Virtual Machines.  I run 2 on it simultaneously 1) Windows XP (1 gb ram) and 2) 64-bit Ubuntu (6gb ram).

The Ubuntu VM is my server stack I use to write my client software.
-Hinto

"When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive."
-Robert A. Heinlein

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Re: Why do you use #!Crunchbang

#! is the best non-DYI (e.g. Arch) distro that is fast on my netbook. Other distros like Linux Mint or Ubuntu ran well but had some slow-downs when opening some windows. As a perfectionist, it bothered me. #! fixed everything. It also has the best implementation/look Xfce out of the box. Plus, when I am not being an Xfce fanboy, Openbox is nice to mess with as well.

I also like dark-themed stuff.