My Openbox Experiment - Ditching the Desktop Environment?
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...
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).
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
