CrunchBang Linux

LeSparkly

New Member

From: Tree

Registered: 2013-12-07

Posts: 4

Face first into #!

Hello everyone,

Personally I've played around with a few distros in the past. My first experience with linux in general was Puppy Linux that I live booted from a USB on an ancient laptop with a fried hard-drive.

Over the last couple of years I've tried a few others such as Ubuntu, Mint, Zorin OS, etc. But I've always went back to Windows in the end. I've been using Windows for as long as I can remember (and I mean that literally. The first computer my family got when I was little ran windows 95.  ).

I've recently started learning to program (I'm learning Python) and I wanted to set up a stable system that I could use as a programming machine. So I pulled out one of my old towers, found a hard drive that still works to stick in it and started looking for a distro to put on it.

I tried Zorin and Mint first, but Zorin ran too slowly and I didn't really like the feel of Mint.

I should mention that this old PC has a single core AMD CPU and 1gb of ram, so I need something lite to run on it. After a little googling I found a page that mentioned Crunchbang. I started looking into it and I liked what I saw, so I decided to give it a shot and wow.

Even with the ancient hardware I'm running it on, Crunchbang still manages to feel snappy and very responsive. Although it seems a tad intimidating when first getting started with it, I think #! is exactly what I've been looking for.

The active community is a big plus as well! 

Last edited by LeSparkly (2013-12-07 20:03:14)

g33zr

#! Die Hard

From: Never Never Land

Registered: 2013-02-19

Posts: 557

Re: Face first into #!

Welcome to #! and enjoy! 

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vic

#! by Default

From: /&&

Registered: 2009-02-13

Posts: 3,296

Re: Face first into #!

Welcome LeSparkly, you have come to the right place, have a fun#!

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CSCoder4ever

#! Keyboard Troll

From: /dev/zero

Registered: 2013-09-03

Posts: 2,068

Re: Face first into #!

Welcome LeSparkly! enjoy the incredible #! distro!

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LeSparkly

New Member

From: Tree

Registered: 2013-12-07

Posts: 4

Re: Face first into #!

Thanks for the warm welcome ^-^

photonucleon

Quantum Geek

From: Hogwarts

Registered: 2013-06-10

Posts: 898

Re: Face first into #!

Welcome

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"Hey, we're CrunchBang users! What could happen?"
--modified quote from The Incredibles 

tamikan

#! Die Hard

Registered: 2012-09-20

Posts: 777

Re: Face first into #!

Welcome home LeSparkly
Oh I know how you feel #! gave a second life to an unwanted single core pc tower with 768MB of ram that its previous owner found sluggish with Windows XP  over here lol

Last edited by tamikan (2013-12-09 13:32:02)

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