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Offline mdmcaf

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What to Replace Crunchbang With
« on: Tue, 24 March 2015, 12:27:59 »
So I've noticed a lot of us use Crunchbang Linux on our machines (from lurking the Post Your Desks/Setups threads). I too have loved Crunchbang and continue to use it. But I know that since it's not being developed anymore I really ought to switch to something else.

I'm thinking either a Debian build with the i3 Window Manager or Arch Linux with the same.

How about you? Have you switched from Crunchbang yet? If so, what did you switch to?
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Re: What to Replace Crunchbang With
« Reply #1 on: Tue, 24 March 2015, 12:55:47 »
I'm still running #! on my laptop. Need to point it at some different repos at some point in case of security updates, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

I'm also playing with a Jessie Netinst that I built up from nothing using openbox. It's not quite the same as #!, but it's not trying to be either.
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Re: What to Replace Crunchbang With
« Reply #2 on: Tue, 24 March 2015, 15:50:41 »
I just feel a little robbed that I just got into Crunchbang 6 months ago and they decide to stop developing it.

Openbox is a pretty decent WM, especially if you're more keyboard centric - I'd always wanted to use it but couldn't find good enough instructions for how to configure it. Then I discover #! and it's everything I've ever wanted from a Linux distro and shortly after that they stop developing it.

Robbery I tell you!
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Re: What to Replace Crunchbang With
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 24 March 2015, 19:07:15 »
Slackware
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Re: What to Replace Crunchbang With
« Reply #4 on: Tue, 24 March 2015, 20:29:12 »
I've tried #! along with quite a few others over the years, although I eventually settled on CentOS (with a little Mint where packages are not supported on CentOS).

If I was replacing #!, I would consider Arch.
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Re: What to Replace Crunchbang With
« Reply #5 on: Wed, 25 March 2015, 13:04:55 »
Yeah, the more I research Arch the better it seems - especially if I'm trying to keep a minimal install for my ThinkPad. It's not that I run low on system resources, it's just that I like to have as streamlined an install as possible.

I think I tried to install Arch a number of years ago on my Raspberry Pi, but wasn't able to get X to work. I didn't try too hard to get it working as it was just something fun to try to do and life stuff probably happened.

As for Slackware? I liked Slackware when I first started getting into Linux, but it seemed a little long in the tooth last time I tried to use it (maybe about 3 or 4 years ago). It could make for a fun dual boot project though  :thumb:
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Re: What to Replace Crunchbang With
« Reply #6 on: Wed, 25 March 2015, 13:19:29 »
I recommend arch
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