Why do you use #!Crunchbang

hinto · 2011-12-16 18:57:12

It is rock solid!!!
It's now my primary development OS.
-H

straycatstrat · 2011-12-16 18:57:22

@ ivanovnegro - lol thanks!

2ManyDogs · 2011-12-16 19:01:56

It's quick. It's minimalist and runs well on my old machines. It has an active community where I can ask questions when I break things. It's easy to reinstall when I break things...

orionthehunter · 2011-12-17 00:24:32

straycatstrat wrote:

Lol laptop is weaker than this desktop xD Acer Aspire 3000. AMD Sempron @ 1.8 GHz, 256 MB RAM, SiS video chipset lmao

The 256mb of ram can't be upgraded can it? If you can get it up to 768mb I find that #! runs nominally even under reasonable load.

Obviously 256mb isn't too little, its just your application inventory needs to be carefully scrutinized.

straycatstrat · 2011-12-17 00:38:29

orionthehunter wrote:

straycatstrat wrote:
Lol laptop is weaker than this desktop xD Acer Aspire 3000. AMD Sempron @ 1.8 GHz, 256 MB RAM, SiS video chipset lmao
The 256mb of ram can't be upgraded can it? If you can get it up to 768mb I find that #! runs nominally even under reasonable load.
Obviously 256mb isn't too little, its just your application inventory needs to be carefully scrutinized.

Yes, it can be upgraded, and I plan on maxing out the thing with 2 GB of RAM, just need the money

stavros · 2011-12-17 11:17:49

orionthehunter wrote:

Stavros, as in from William and Mary Stavros?

yes and no, in my case its my first name, not the last name.

lofijerm · 2011-12-18 02:57:33

If it wasn't for smashing my macbook into a gajillion pieces out of a fit of rage, I would have never given Linux a chance. That or it would have taken me longer to try it. I had known about Linux for awhile, but my main reason for running mac was for music production.

So out of desperation for a computer I bought a cheap netbook pre-loaded with Windows knowing full well I wasn't going to be running any music production software anytime soon. My experience was horrible using Windows. I know netbooks are not meant for great speed, but my god, this was insanity. (I knew better than to do any smashing this time ).

My inner nerd had awakened after a long slumber since music became a full time hobby. So without a second thought, I completely wiped Windows on the first go. (I had my friends computer with me just in case anything went wrong).

At first I was excited to try Jolicloud, which I had read about a longtime ago. That feeling of excitement changed to feeling like a 3 year old playing with a toy.

My next try was the new Ubuntu Unity. (However you call it).Again I felt like a child playing with a toy. Now, this was a major breaking point in my years of using computers. It was then that I realized I was getting sick of GUI's. Granted I was using a netbook, but still I felt like I was being choked and raped by icons and docks and panels. I also realized how much I despise these... "Apps".

After that I looked for something lightweight, but still stylish which is how I found #!. It was pretty bare bones, but still allowed me to learn. I started to become interested in using the terminal, then Linux as a whole, then programming as a matter of fact. I have fun learning on Crunchbang, and to say the least, it has been inspiring to me, and continues to be.

Cheers!

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el_koraco · 2011-12-18 03:00:46

What did the poor Mac do to deserve a smashing?

lofijerm · 2011-12-18 03:08:05

Let's just say I was in a relationship that I'm not in anymore. The mac book was just the first object in my hand. ..

el_koraco · 2011-12-18 09:23:00

lol. Well, it happens I guess.

saturn9 · 2011-12-18 13:13:23

lofijerm wrote:

If it wasn't for smashing my macbook into a gajillion pieces out of a fit of rage, I would have never given Linux a chance. That or it would have taken me longer to try it. I had known about Linux for awhile, but my main reason for running mac was for music production.

Have you had a chance to try any of the Linux music production software? If so, what worked for you?

rhowaldt · 2011-12-18 13:18:30

^ fwiw, i use Renoise on Linux and it is really great. haven't tried any of the free stuff though.

lofijerm · 2011-12-18 20:14:27

saturn9 wrote:

Have you had a chance to try any of the Linux music production software? If so, what worked for you?

So far I've only tried LMMS and Hydrogen. I have not yet tried any recording software. LMMS looked like it could have been useful, but my Asus Eee didn't handle it well. I even tried dumbing down the quality, but even that didn't help much. Hydrogen worked well, but it's only a drum machine. I still occasionally play with it, but I don't actually get any real work done, but then again I don't really expect to, using a netbook

If you know any lightweight music production programs definitely let me know. I would like to try them. I figure I can just use audacity for recording.

rhowaldt · 2011-12-18 20:33:17

lofijerm wrote:

If you know any lightweight music production programs definitely let me know. I would like to try them.

lightweight AND free? don't really know. but as i said couple of posts above, i use Renoise, and find it pretty lightweight. it is not free, but for EUR 60 it's a steal. you gotta get into using a tracker for composing music though. maybe worth checking out? http://www.renoise.com - version 2.8 now in beta (and for that EUR 60 you get a full version-number of free updates, which means you buy 2.8 you can go on till 3.8, which is approximately 3 years or something)

cornelius · 2011-12-23 01:37:42

i need to post again,my first #! is lxde,and i switch to other distro because need to access network drive. When #! release new version with only openbox i thought it not for me,but i was wrong , the new #! fit better for me, because:

1. gigolo work out of box, no more hard work for me
2. editing menu is easier, i can easily add menu to jdwonloader in no time
3. install VNC server easily
4. it simple and fast for my old laptop

just like it, thank you

Goofy · 2011-12-28 20:15:59

2ManyDogs wrote:

It's quick. It's minimalist and runs well on my old machines. It has an active community where I can ask questions when I break things. It's easy to reinstall when I break things...

Very true. I managed to completely bork ALSA, which eventually had me reinstalling #!. It took me 10-15 minutes, and everything was fine again I only needed to restore a backup of a couple system configurations (in /etc). Everything else was (of course) still in ~, which is on a seperate partition.

Sector11 · 2011-12-29 02:49:25

Goofy wrote:

Very true. I managed to completely bork ALSA, which eventually had me reinstalling #!. It took me 10-15 minutes, and everything was fine again I only needed to restore a backup of a couple system configurations (in /etc). Everything else was (of course) still in ~, which is on a seperate partition.

Curious - what do you save in /etc? I have never bothered.

EnochRoot · 2011-12-29 08:27:41

System config mainly in there

Sector11 · 2011-12-29 16:56:19

EnochRoot wrote:

System config mainly in there

Yes I know that but it was his "restore a backup of a couple system configurations" that got my interest.

I have 237 visible items of which 128 are directories.
So I'm curious as to which "couple" he's referring to.

nicolasjengler · 2012-01-01 16:47:58

Well, my story is quite simple.

I use a netbook as my main PC, and a 'heavy' distro like Ubuntu or Fedora can run pretty slow on these things. So I decided to try CrunchBang

CrunchBang doesn't limit the power of the netbook (unlike other netbook-oriented distros) and gives me a full speed PC with a totally customizable desktop

pvsage · 2012-01-01 20:18:06

^ Welcome to the CrunchBang Netbook Club, Inc.!

I sometimes use my Statler netbook with a 23" monitor. No performance loss whatsoever. |..|

merelyjim · 2012-01-01 21:44:40

^ Agreed, but it must be hell moving it from home to the office...

pvsage · 2012-01-01 22:13:43

...so just borrow a monitor from one of the Windows PC's at work...`xrandr` to see what the monitor wants (if I don't already know), then `xrandr --output VGA1 --mode ####x### --above LVDS1`.

ZAP · 2012-01-01 22:14:49

Sector11 wrote:

Yes I know that but it was his "restore a backup of a couple system configurations" that got my interest.
I have 237 visible items of which 128 are directories.
So I'm curious as to which "couple" he's referring to.

All kinds of useful things are in /etc (fstab, hosts, crontab, etc. - not to mention important standard subfolders like apt and init.d and common non-standard ones like apache2)...

nicolasjengler · 2012-01-02 01:22:07

pvsage wrote:

...so just borrow a monitor from one of the Windows PC's at work...`xrandr` to see what the monitor wants (if I don't already know), then `xrandr --output VGA1 --mode ####x### --above LVDS1`.

The same here. I sometimes use an old CRT monitor when I'm short of workspace.

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