Enlightenment, Fluxbox, or.....?
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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.
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 IMOfumbles said:
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
It is far far far faster day- to- day-Tauren- said:what? bettter than ubuntu? how so ? i might give this a try
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
I don't know about the 64 vs 32 bit thing (I would also like to know this though-Tauren- said:
)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!
Bes said: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!
yup, best of all its all free.
-Tauren- said:
I'm using the Arch x64 on this computer due to the folding thing. Runs very fast compared to other distro's as all binaries are compiled with SSE2 and other optimisations that are standard for newer computers. However it does have the same problems as every other x64 linux distro (no flash, java, etc).
32 is your best bet.
Also another great feature of Arch Linux is that it doesn't have version in the traditional sense. It simply has snapshots of the latest versions at that time.
It is not like Ubuntu, were Ubuntu is GUI based, Arch is command line. You actually learn how Linux really works.
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.
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.
