OK, sorry if you find mistakes, both are not my mother languages 
So the friend uses Windows in his job and had been thinking of changing for a long time, and he finally - influenced (hatasom
) by me, "stepped towards the cause", namely with the help of CB. Of course the change never happened, but since then I had the thought in the back of my head to try it out myself. I didn't hesitate for too long, the ISO was quickly downloaded and soon booted."
"On the CD a ubuntu-based live system comes alive, in which everything for the everyday use can be found, maybe even more. It is the first time for me to see Openbox, during use it seems to me that it is a hybrid of Flux and Fvwm. Pleasant, light, fast stuff, but for my old eyes the unanimous grey-squared look became very tiresome. (No Latvian pun
) The CD's content is very manly, very minimalistic, just as the window manager."
"After looking around and testing I decided to check the stuff in an installed state. On the live CD there was the option in the desktop menu to install, thus I clicked on it."
"Haven't been using the attentive graphical installers I have missed a detail: I didn't check the check-box in which I could choose to format the target partition - of course I only noticed that afterward. Logging into the installed system it started to babble something about XFCE, although it is clear that it cannot come from the ubuntu-openbox CD. Starting Firefox and Pidgin the whole thing looked fishy as I met well-known things: registered accounts, browser history. Then the penny has dropped, that I didn't format the partition on which I had the latest Zenwalk release installed for testing. Once again I knuckled down to it and this went well."
"The grub, which was installed automatically, is ugly and contains 77 entries to the OS, editing it is nearly impossible (sic!), the entries were labeled hda for my HD are in fact sda, but the grub just recommends an extremely long string of letters after pressing 'e', which I didn't dare to touch, I rather installed Lilo."
"If I would still live my minimalist stage of life, I would have fallen in love with this distro, even despite the fact that it is ubuntu.:)"
Nothing right in the left brain. Nothing left in the right brain.