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Tell me your idea of the perfect linux operating system. I have tried well over a hundred of them during over a decade of distrohopping. Maybe I can help you find a new home.

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I’m a fan of Openbox or i3wm. Trying Fedora Sway Atomic this morning. I haven’t messed with Sway before. There’s quite a few more desktop environments since last time I checked. I’m kind of excited to see Damn Small Linux revived as well since my target is a Chromebook with only 32GB SSD. Puppy Linux did well with the limited space and I might give it another go but I’m hoping to find something with packages that are more familiar. I’ve been using primarily Debian or Arch for the past 10 years. Too spoiled to put up with puppy. It did perform really well, though, so I might come back to it if nothing else pans out.

As I said before, CrunchBang has been my all time favorite.

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PolarizedBear 1y ago 💬 1

I feel your pain. Crunchbang was my jam back in the day. It was the only one that ran like a champion on my old single core hardware. That being said I do not think that Fedora is going to be the right fit for you given your system hardware requirements.

However, there is one above all the rest that I believe you can make your new home. It is called Alpine Linux. Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox. Its resource requirements are hilariously small.

https://www.alpinelinux.org/

Here is how to install OpenBox on it too. That will give you the real old school linux nostalgia feels right in the heart. Might even forget it isn't crunchbang after awhile too.

https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Openbox

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Right on, I’ll take a look. Fedora Sway Atomic looked sweet on boot but I couldn’t find any documentation on how to bring up a menu to launch applications. I just stared at the desktop for a few minutes and then started downloading AntiX 23. Downloading Alpine now. Thanks again!