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Hedon James

OBR is an interesting Arch-based distro, as it is basically an Openbox distro with XFCE-based tools. Perhaps a super-lightweight XFCE, or an OB distro on steroids?!

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OBR is an interesting Arch-based distro, as it is basically an Openbox distro with XFCE-based tools. Perhaps a super-lightweight XFCE, or an OB distro on steroids?!

 

Yeah, interesting. I use a few Xfce tools in my Openbox installations (in Debian Stretch, Arch, and Antergos) -- but only a few, like xfce4-terminal and xfce4-screenshooter. Works out nicely. I've considered using xfce4-panel in Openbox, but I prefer the tint2 panel (and I see that OBRevenge includes that as well).

 

Actually, I installed Arch with Xfce, then added Openbox, so I have both sessions available, and in the Openbox sessions I have all of the Xfce tools available. Very good way to go, in my opinion.

 

As an Openbox fan, I'd be a lot more interested in OBRevenge if I didn't already have the above-mentioned installations living happily on my machines. Also, I've had some nice runs with a couple of other Openbox distros -- ArchBang and BunsenLabs. But OBRevenge looks good; looks like it's closer to Antergos than to ArchBang.

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Hedon James

@SecurityBreach: I think OBR is targeted to newbie-ish users, with many pre-configurations already put together. Arch users probably aren't interested in OBR and certainly don't need the hints. I suspect OBR is trying to provide a lightweight Openbox experience, with XFCE-based UX tools, on an Arch base, for inexperienced users of Arch and OB. In that respect, it makes sense to put the cheat sheet front and center for how to navigate or get things done. I suspect...

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