A “serious” Ubuntu-based Linux
CrunchBang Linux is the first distro I’ve seen in a long time which tickles all my favorite Linux points: small, fast, and simple. It isn’t trying to be “friendly” and certainly isn’t trying to look like Windows. It just wants to give you a platform for running apps and getting things done. I will install!
That looks like a very elegant desktop setup.
I used to gut my linux desktop distros in favor of using a combination of GNU Screen, ION window manager and a hot-key/macro engine whose name escapes me… My goal was to never have to have my hands leave the keyboard, all in the vein of trying to be uber-efficient. Today I’ve learned to configure Ubuntu or Kubuntu to be reasonably as effective, as the maintaince on such my custom setup, though simple, tended to make the novelty less appealing.
Time to try CrunchBang Linux… may be just what I wish I had 8 years ago!
