My Openbox Experiment - Ditching the Desktop Environment?
My Openbox Experiment - Ditching the Desktop Environment?
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My Openbox Experiment - Ditching the Desktop Environment?
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I used Openbox directly without a DE for a number of years on my netbook. It was perfectly serviceable for that use case, but I don't think I'd have been as happy with it for my main workstation or personal desktop.
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loved slackware with openbox on my netbook back in the days. running pop os and i3wm now, i prefer it over openbox or fluxbox now. it is my daily driver work horse, stable and low on resources. easy to configure.
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I've been using openbox only for the last 20 years or so and I loved it. For the last 3-4 months I moved to labwc...and again, I'm loving it. I've never felt the need for a full desktop.
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Openbox was great. I learned Linux using fluxbox, and moved over to openbox down the track because it was familiar. I stayed with it until about 2015 I think.
Labwc could be a similar wayland experience (although it’s not their mission statement), but I haven’t been able to try it yet.
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Count me as another huge fan and longtime user of openbox. The functionality I get from my desktop is insane, as is the speed and reliability.
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That was one of my main reasons to move to Linux about 10 years ago; you couldn't just replace that shitty desktop of Windows 7 with a better one (well, there was Blackbox, a Openbox fork).
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I use an distro called 'Bunsen Labs', which was created as a successor to CrunchBang Linux when maintenance of that distro ceased. It uses OpenBox as the WM, and works well for an old laptop and for random VMs I spin up to test things (my test Lemmy instance runs on it).
crunchbang is awesome, never did the bunsen labs, but i do have a live crunchbang plus plus usb for recovery and lightweight live distro. i think its debian 12 with openbox.
I'm on cb++, desktop, laptops and server. looking forward to the wayland release.
I also love bunsenlabs and used it a lot. It's so ridiculously light. I have it running on a pentium M laptop and it's surprisingly usable. Don't get me wrong it's still a 20 year old device with one cpu core, but it can do most things.