• From: Scotland, Cold
  • Registered: 2009-01-17
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Topic: Hey! Look! We don't suck!

More Linux Distro's that Don't Suck


Go look ^^


Also: downloading SLAMPP as we speak.

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  • Toolz
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  • Registered: 2009-02-02
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Re: Hey! Look! We don't suck!

Think of CrunchBang as Ubuntu for the advanced. It offers speed and style as well at the bleeding edge of packages. It’s highly customizable and comes with the nimble openbox window manager. No bloated Gnome or KDE here. This is the perfect distro if you really like Ubuntu but don’t like how it’s geared towards linux n00bs.

Crap article.

What does the bold bit mean? Is he saying Ubuntu has 'bleeding edge' packages?

  • Toolz
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Re: Hey! Look! We don't suck!

... and how many here don't like how Ubuntu is geared toward 'Linux n00bs'?

  • Registered: 2009-09-13
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Re: Hey! Look! We don't suck!

Toolz wrote:

... and how many here don't like how Ubuntu is geared toward 'Linux n00bs'?

lol. I just like that it combines the best parts of ubuntu with openbox without all the crap in between!

  • From: California, USA
  • Registered: 2008-11-29
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Re: Hey! Look! We don't suck!

Think of CrunchBang as Ubuntu for the advanced. It offers speed and style as well at the bleeding edge of packages.

Damn, I can only wish CrunchBang had bleeding edge packages tongue

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  • fox
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  • Registered: 2009-05-10
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Re: Hey! Look! We don't suck!

Aside from CrunchBang, I thought it was interesting that he listed Pardus and Sabayon.  The former got really nice coverage in DistroWatch and the latter has received several very complementary reviews since version 4.  I really like the look of Sabayon and thought of trying it, but I don't care to download a 2 gb file and I wonder how snappy a distro could be with all those bytes of files.  In the case of Pardus, I couldn't see anything it did that was necessarily better than Ubuntu.

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  • From: EastKY
  • Registered: 2009-10-16
  • Posts: 20

Re: Hey! Look! We don't suck!

sabayon has the best live-dvd experience ever, (it has boot options for a media center or several different games)
it also has an awesome installer (lets you choose your wm and other stuff)
but other than that it's nothing to write home about.
speaking of,  i need to send that letter off tomorrow morning. my mom is going to love hearing about crunchbang.

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  • qbrick
  • #! CrunchBanger
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  • From: Hannover, Germany
  • Registered: 2009-07-20
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Re: Hey! Look! We don't suck!

Sabayon 4.x copied everything from the live-image on my hd and after that deleted, what I had 'unchecked' during installation procedure.
OTOH 3D was supported right out of the box and a lot of nice fps games were ready to run.
On the whole the system felt slow - not a distro for a former #! user.