#! brings back some good memories :)

For me, Crunchbang was a great introduction to the possibilities of customizing your Linux experience. No giant, monolithic desktop environment, just a handful of programs that you could (and were encouraged to) tweak or replace to your heart’s content.

I still run a Crunchbang-inspired setup on my vanilla Debian install—openbox, tint2, conky, nitrogen, gmrun, Win+Letter hotkeys for frequently-used apps, etc. While I’ve outgrown the need for a preconfigured distro myself, I’m glad to see these projects still providing an on-ramp for users looking to dip their toes into the deeper end of the Linux pool.

I actually was comparing these two also so long ago! Miss u crunchie

The nostalgia!

Been using cbpp for… a long time now, (honestly forgotten when I started) hoping u/computermouth has plans to move to wayland, but I can’t be arsed going back to reddit to ask.

Not had much luck finding a minimal stacking DE to replace it.

How good is the touch screen support in these two? I’m running a convertible for note taking, and I kinda depend on Gnomes pretty decent gesture support.

Would it be possible to run parsec or moonlight on these? I tried parsec on cb++ in the past but it was missing some libra58 dependency thing for it to run