I have had this experience with just about every project I have participated in (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, jackd, ardour, 64studio... the list goes on and on). Hooray for open source project communities! :)
At this point it probably does not matter which project one chooses, just be sure to connect with the community that surrounds it. On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Chris <gafu...@netscape.net> wrote: > Again, I agree. The other thing I love about crunchbang is the > community. The forums tend to be straight forward and when I do run into > problems the solution is usually very easy to find. The Mint repos are > largely compatible with crunchbang as well giving you easy access to most > of your favourite programs > > Chris > > > On 13-08-26 07:52 PM, Jeff Clement wrote: > > For me, Crunchbang comes out of the chute almost exactly how I want it. > It has very broad package selection that usually works pretty well for > my purposes. It's not as flashy as Ubuntu or Mint but it's fast and > usable and reasonably pretty. > > They use Conky to draw a list of shortcut keys to the desktop that are > used to start the commonly used apps. I LOVE this. I only use a > handful of GUI applications on my Linux machines (Firefox, Thunderbird, > Electrum, KeePassX and Pidgin) so the hot key approach is really perfect > and I almost never use the menu based launchers. > > Adding new menu items, shortcuts, etc is done by editing configuration > files but, conveniently, there are menu items already in the menus to > edit the common configuration files and to restart the appropriate part > of the UI to reflect changes to those files. The files are easy enough > to edit and honestly I find it more intuitive to edit these files than > to try and figure out how to rearrange menu items under the graphical tools. > > Crunchbang comes out of the box with things like Volume control, > network/wifi/VPN control, Dropbox, etc. > > I'd recommend just trying it and see what you thing (either through > VMWare or by installing it to a USB stick). > > Jeff > > On 26/08/13 04:44 PM, Joe S wrote: > > With the talk about distros I would like to know more about > Crunchbang. I will also be installing on a laptop in the near > future. Is this easy install and customize? What is the advantage > of Crunchbang over Debian with a desktop like KDE? > > I have installed Openbox on Squeeze to try it out. Does anyone > have any advice to get the most out of this window manager. For > start I would like to add icons like a volume adjustment, but > would like to hear of other things. It seems there would be a lot > of work to customize Openbox on Debian. > > Thanks > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing > listclug-talk@clug.cahttp://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing > listclug-talk@clug.cahttp://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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