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...
  • IceVAN@beehaw.org
    3·
    5 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.

  • freamon@preferred.socialEnglish
    5·
    7 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).

    • buwho@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      6 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.

  • zod000@lemmy.ml
    5·
    7 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
      1·
      6 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
    3·
    8 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.