On 20 July 2010 15:25, Paul Morgan-Roach <roa...@roachy.net> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Me, I'm watching Crunchbang with interest, but it's not a beginners' >> distro. > > Crunchbang is awesome - I set it up for my wife who was complaining about > performance on her EEEPC 701, and have since run it on other hardware that > has less than impressive resources, but where a desktop environment is > needed. > > To be fair, once i'd actually set it up so the menu's made sense for her and > she had all the apps she needed she was fine and hasn't asked for any > support on it since. She's not the kind of user who makes changes to her > machine every day, but she does use email and the web heavily, work in > spreadsheets and word processor documents and she's really happy with it. > > Interested to try the new version with the Debian base when it gets into > Beta...
Indeed so. I have tried the alpha in a VM and it looks good - even sleeker and skinnier than before. Real Debian is getting pretty good these days - it's smaller and faster than Ubuntu and the default Gnome desktop is much the same. It was just that getting firmware for my wifi card and so on was a bit of a pain. It is vastly easier to get up and running than it used to be - ironically, one of the main reasons Ubuntu itself was created. Debian is catching up and itself is now a sort of quite viable "Ubuntu Light". If Crunchbang can prune Debian down and make it easier to get the few proprietary bits one needs working, it will be quite an interesting solution... -- Liam Proven • Profile & links: http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AIM/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
