Enlightenment, Fluxbox, or.....?

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Hi

Will be getting a new PC soon and installing Arch as the main OS. What window manager (apart from KDE 'cos it's horrible! ) would you choose? I like the look of fluxbox

 

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First Arch rocks! Nice choice!

Flux is very minimalist, very good for slower systems. Enlightenment however is a different bag all together, focusing more on the visual effect side of things. Install both try them out and see which one suite you. I've got both of those, KDE, Gnome and Xfce installed. Although on this computer I primarily use Gnome, and on the laptop Xfce.

Yep Arch does indeed rock-switched over from Ubuntu and whilst Ubuntu is good, Arch much much better IMO

I have Enlightenment right now but am a bit dissappointed with the lack of themes (e17) and the fact that when you put your own image as the wallpaper, it introduces some horrible artifacts (Poor conversion to executable I think)

Still E17 looks nice and works well

 

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what? bettter than ubuntu? how so ? i might give this a try

It is far far far faster day- to- day
The basic version is completely stripped down so you only install exactly what you want/ need making it supremely light
Pacman (Package manager) is brilliant- much better than Ubuntu's IMO
More stable for me- it has never crashed ever.

Just all round much nicer and lighter in my opinion- I recommend it wholeheartedly

 

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thanks. as i have a 64bit cpu am i better off going 64bit OS ? or staying with 32? and which desktop manager do you suggest?

I don't know about the 64 vs 32 bit thing (I would also like to know this though )

But for a window manager, depending on your tastes and CPU power, I would say Gnome & Beryl
or Enlightenment (What I am running now- see the Linux gallery for a screenshot)

Like the answers I have had here, best thing just seems to be to install a few and see what you like best!

 

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Arch rocks!

Do you minimalist guys see some garbage at the top of your screen when you first startx ? Is this normal?

Reminds me of switching video modes in the old DOS days, where it would display whatever was in the buffer before clearing the screen.

I don't

 

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Ok finally pulled my finger out and built a new PC- E6600, nVidia 7300GS, 1GB RAM- it absolutely flies and Beryl/ Gnome runs like a dream