Could I live in Openbox rather than a full desktop environment? This week I look at how and if that would be possible. If you enjoyed this video please subscribe to my channel by clicking here http...
  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
    2·
    6 hours ago

    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).

  • freamon@preferred.socialEnglish
    10·
    21 hours ago

    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).

    • notthebees@reddthat.com
      3·
      8 hours ago

      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.

    • buwho@lemmy.mlEnglish
      41·
      20 hours ago

      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.

  • IceVAN@beehaw.org
    7·
    20 hours ago

    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.

  • zod000@lemmy.ml
    9·
    22 hours ago

    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.

    • buwho@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      20 hours ago

      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.

  • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org
    41·
    22 hours ago

    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.