• ein
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Topic: My impressions after two months.

I've been running 9.04.01 for about two months now, on the recommendation of the Linux Outlaws podcast. Before trying #!, I'd used Ubuntu since 2007.

First, the speed has been noticably better. This is a huge plus on my aging System76 Gazelle laptop.

The aesthetics are great. Hacker monotones, nothing flashy.

Openbox was a gigantic stumbling block for me, for the first couple of weeks. But once I got over the hassle of configuring the menu.xml file, I grew very attached to the speed and flexibility, and now consider myself a convert.

Most of the basic applications were great, but Abiword had to go; I was having some real formatting problems when reading .odf and .doc files on other computers. OO.org has run like a dream.

What's been truly great about #! is how well it's been networking. Wifi has been a cakewalk, and network detection and wireless authentication have gone faster than with Ubuntu. But the clincher has been the fact that Printer Settings can effectively detect and communicate with new printers in a matter of minutes. For whatever reason, this had been hit-or-miss with Ubuntu.

I may find myself getting wanderlust and moving on one day -- I'm still learning, after all -- but I'll have nothing but praise for Crunchbang.

Thanks to corenominal, and thanks to the community.

-ein.

  • From: Lincoln, UK
  • Registered: 2008-11-20
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Re: My impressions after two months.

Thank you for the feedback, it is appreciated. smile

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  • From: Santa Fe, NM, USA
  • Registered: 2009-09-14
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Re: My impressions after two months.

Same for me ... I tried #! 9.04 last year, and I just couldn't "get" into Openbox.  It just didn't make much sense.

I left #! for about 6 months, then thought I'd give it another chance.

WOW!!  Everything made sense ... I love Openbox and what corenominal has done with #!

Quickly, upgraded to #!Statler ... and have been a die-hard #! junkie ever since.

Last edited by vrkalak (2010-06-01 02:30:43)

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Re: My impressions after two months.

If you feel wanderlust, try Statler, especially the xfce version, it is as great as the OB one.

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  • Registered: 2010-03-25
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Re: My impressions after two months.

if it is as good as ob, then why use it ?? how different is it ? so that I can make up my mind.

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Re: My impressions after two months.

Xfce is easier to use (has many GUI apps) and its menu auto-updated. corenominal also tweaked the Xfce setup so it runs tint2 and has the apps menu as right-click.

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Re: My impressions after two months.

It is a matter of taste and what anonymous said.

Last edited by vicshrike (2010-06-11 13:20:59)

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