abarbarian Posted April 4 Author Share Posted April 4 Mabox Linux – Beautiful Arch Linux with Openbox [Review] Quote Mabox Linux is a Manjaro Linux re-spin with a lightweight Openbox window manager, ready to use with pre-configured themes and utilities. We review the distribution in this post. Quote Thanks to the Openbox, this Linux distribution is super-lightweight in resource consumption while being a beautiful desktop for everyone to use. The Mabox Linux tools adapted from BunsenLabs and inspired by Crunchbang brings some of their applications. Quote The LIVE desktop lets you install Mabox via the Calamares installer. The installation takes around 3 to 4 minutes on standard hardware, and it is error-free in my test. Why anyone would want to make a fork of Manjaro beats me, why not just fork Arch ? Doing an install in 3 to 4 minutes is a bold claim, I wonder if it is true ? You just got to love the variety in the penguin world. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 Yeah, no doubt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted April 13 Author Share Posted April 13 Archcraft OS – Minimal Arch Linux with Openbox WM Quote Archcraft OS is a free and open-source operating system (OS) based on Arch Linux. Developed by a single person, this Linux distribution promises to be “pure” Arch as in – it is exact same as vanilla Arch Linux install. Quote The installer is a window-driven step-by-step process which typically you do via commands while installing Arch Linux. However, it gives you sufficient options to go back and forth before the actual installation starts. The installation process went smooth, although it took some time in my test system (BIOS-based). The distro successfully detected all the operating systems in the multi-boot test device. And did not mess my grub. Overall installation time on average is ~15 minutes. Quote The major advantage of using a window manager instead of a traditional desktop environment is the better resource usage by the underlying distribution. Hence, Archcraft is also doing the same. This distro uses around ~390 MB of RAM in an idle state in a physical installation. Most of the memory is used by Xorg only at idle state, followed by Plank.CPU usage is very minimal at idle of course unless you do any operation. This sounds like a very neat effort shame I do not have the time to try it out at the moment. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted June 2 Author Share Posted June 2 Archcraft Yet another minimal Linux distribution, based on Arch Linux. Quote Archcraft is just another Linux distribution, made on top of Arch Linux. It uses window managers and lightweight applications, which makes it super fast. With pre-configured settings, Archcraft provides you the best out of the box window manager experience. This looked to be a promising Arch based distro sadly there has been no new release since Nov 2021. They do have a good step by step guide to installing with Calamares and ABIF. The Gallery is worth a look as it has some good screenshots of a variety of Window Managers. Of interest there included two wayland configured Window Managers, Quote Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11. It works with your existing i3 configuration and supports most of i3's features, plus a few extras. and Quote Wayfire is a wayland compositor based on wlroots. It aims to create a customizable, extendable and lightweight environment without sacrificing its appearance. I rather like the Archcraft Lite version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 The mention of Wayland is a no go for anyone who uses nvidia https://blog.devgenius.io/wayland-and-nvidia-in-2022-2f0407fb34f4 Until performance is on par with Wayland and Nvidia, I will stick to Xorg which works fine. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 And as of 2 months ago https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/tlyyk4/how_has_your_nvidia_wayland_experience_been/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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