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Linux Distro Review: Crunchbang++ 11
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2021
- Crunchbang++ 11 was recently released, and it's awesome! So, why aren't more people aware of this really good Linux distro? Crunchbang++ is lightweight, fun to use, and well designed. In this video, I install the latest version and check it out.
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I loved Crunchbang so much. I was sad to see it go. I can't tell you how quickly I clicked on this video. Amazing work, Jay.
Same here, same here! #!++
I'm still using the Crunchbang system that I set up on this computer in 2013. My ancient hardware doesn't feel slow because the OS is so light. I've had to hack it pretty hard at times to keep it running. Major Debian upgrades have sometimes been troublesome - shifting from sysv to systemd gave me a bit of heartburn - but it is so efficient that I never did get around to swinging over to a different distro or to even do a clean reinstall.
Nice to see that the new improved Crunchbang keeps to the original design goals. It is just a great Debian install.
That says alot! Crunchbang was the first distro that ever made me get my hands a little dirty. It will always have a place in my heart
I had no idea, wow. I used to use #! and still remember it fondly.
It’s soooo great.
Jay, I, for one, have never heard of Crunchbang ++. Now that I've seen it in action with the pros and cons fully explained, I like it. I'm a big fan of Debian Linux and my love for this long-term distro is only eclipsed by Arch. Great video, as usual. I just love your channel and what you do to educate the public in the awesome and exciting world of Linux!
Crunchbangs UI and desktop setup was so slick. Glad to see this project carrying on it's legacy
Just to let you know, that after this video, I installed #!++ on my laptop. Absolutely love it, now my daily driver. Just what I was looking for. Many thanks indeed for making this video recommending it!
Thank you for the trip down memory lane. I thought I might have been the only one to have enjoyed #! for its simplicity, versatility, and ability to boot on most any hardware ATT (2009-2013).
Back in the day, I honed in on Linux Mint Mate (LMDE 1 & 2) on my home PC, Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor Q8400 w/8gb ram) as my daily driver. But for my various mobile computing needs when I taught at universities, language schools, and at company offices, I used an installed on USB version of CrunchBang (#!). It was fast, & lightweight regardless of installed hardware at hand where ever I went.
I was completely dumbstruct and heartbroken when it was discontinued by the developer for lack of users (or so he said). I tried Bunsen Lab's version, and like you, felt it untrue to the original. I tried #!++ for a period of time, but my computing needs and hardware requirements changed over the years and I've gotten away from #!++.
Currently, I use a Lenovo Yoga 6 with the new AMD Ryzen 5700 w/16gb ram & high rez touchscreen (spoilt by Chromebooks). I've honed in on Debian 11 Cinnamon DE w/non-free drivers as my daily driver, also changed to testing repos - I like rolling releases over nuk'n pave; I know. I should use Arch, but then I'd have to retrain my terminal console commands' muscle memory - I'm so used to Debian.
After watching your lovely video review of an ol' flame of mine, I'm going to give her another try; if for nothing more than a mobile (USB) daily driver, again.
Keep on truck'n.
MLE.
Thank you, Jay! I loved #! when I used it years ago. I have a few old Thinkpads around so I might install this just for the joy of it.
You should definitely give it a shot on one of those.
Excellent!! I have always loved crunchbang and now that a new version is out, I'm definitely going to try it out!😀
There are sooo many good distros out there and most of them are unknown or not noticed by others. Very good that you mention this distro Jay 🙂
My go-to distro has always been puppy Linux. Currently fossapup. No other distro comes close when it comes to setting things up. I will be using crunchbang plus plus again because it's simple, fast and functional. Thanks again Jay!!!😀
Hi Jay, thanks for bringing this up! I loved the old Crunchbang back in the day, as I used it to breathe new life into the old corporate laptops I was given by my work. Definitely going to check this out, as I miss the speed and aesthetic.
I run #! in my 2011 netbook for serveral years. It was the best distro for small screens with bad trackpad as you can forget about the mouse (mostly). So glad to know that the spirit of that amazing distro continued up to now. Thank you for the review
#!++ was the distro that introduced me to Linux.
For me it was #! back in 2010. I made myself a beautiful Conky in color and installed Cairo deck like Mac has.
Hands down one of the best Debian distros for lightweight usage ever, and have been using it for many, many years up until its end. I was ecstatic to find it brought back to life.
"I was ecstatic to find it brought back to life."
Really? Ecstatic?! Your life must be pretty empty. That's sad.
@@folksurvival Are you serious about your commend? Sooo, no one has the right to talk about their hobbies and all. You are such a mean human! You must respect others. You don't have the right to make fun of anyone. What a child you are!!! haha
Installed it today, couldn't be happier! Never used the OG distro, but CB++ is amazing for my underpowered computer.
@@folksurvival Partypoop much?
Crunchbang was awesome. I was using in really old laptop, and everything worked super smooth. Sad to see the project shutdown. Glad to see this new version
Thank you Jay for introduced to me this incredible distribution.
I'd immediately went to get it in order to install it on one of my Raspberry Pi, unfortunately is not available for ARM, yet.
Anyway, I will try it.
Great video. I was a big fan of the OG #! I will have to check this one out now
Thank you for your heads up 🙂 Definitely I will try it out 😉
It's Jan 12 2023 and I'm using it currently as i watch this video! My laptop is a Lenovo Thinkpad SL-410 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T6670 @ 2.20GHz with 3.7GB RAM circa 2011 and Crunchbang++ is perfect! Very basic interface, no needless bells and whistles which can hog resources. To add a little "bling" I installed an automatic wallpaper slideshow for my desktop background using a combination of Variety and Feh.
Glad you’re still rocking it. That’s awesome!
Jay, CBPP 12 was released today!
Great review....I noticed it using around 1Gb of ram....not sure what you have running in the background...would love to see your take on Bunsen Labs latest and the differences and what you don't like as much
Definitely gonna try it. I’ve used arch with open box and i3 combined so I really love the concept, plus it’s much more convenient. Well done!
Very exciting! I'm a Mate chap, but I more or less started on CrunchBang! Time to retro my retro. :)
I do wish they had a version for the Raspberry Pi 4
Superb recommendation Jay. We did tried and felt the performance at its peak.... Thanks again for recommending.
#! was the best and still my all time favorite, unique and cool linux distribution that taught me so much about linux!
👍👍👍👍👍 - Jay, you are Simply Awesome! Thanks for show casing CrunchBang++!
Found CrunchBang++ thru DistroWatch when I was looking for a light-weight distro for my older PC.
First thing caught my attn was Conky, speed & how minimum it is. Then was the 'Right-click' menu...
Ultimately I settled for LinixMint xfce - though not as light-weight, it fit my work-flow better @ then.
Yes, it's also cool to spin load of VMs in more powerful machines!
Crunchbang has always been the shizznic!!! Binding Speed !! I ran it like forever ..Im glad that its still loved .
It's so good!
I discovered two amazing things in 2011 … Bitcoin and Crunchbang ☺️ thank you for bringing back great memories!
Crunchbang++ 11, didn't know that distro, many thanks for making a video about it, I'll take a look !
I installed the Crunchbang plus plus on an old laptop from around 2007 that my wife has, it’s an old laptop and had reached a natural end with lightweight Ubuntu, Crunchbang has enabled this laptop to run for another lot of years runs really well and runs well with the modern web, it’s a lovely os probably the nicest Linux I’ve used
I’m glad you like it and I love it too
Thanks. Comparing cbpp with my daily arch driver makes me wonder if we have lost some of the simplicity of linux in the pursuit of windows.
I started on crunchbang. Thought it was dead for good. Neat
I did too. I installed Sparky lxqt and added openbox NOIR and boot into that. Now I have both. Both are the best. Bunsen used to be great. Used to be. Mabox was good too. WAS
@@dougtilaran3496 CBPP is the one for me! My second choice would be BL.
Are those Swan speakers? Nice!
Cool review!
That's exactly what I was looking for a while! Thank you very much, you made my day :)
I loved Crunchbang -- especially the Statler Xfce version. But I ended up leaving when the Xfce version was discontinued. I have since, however, gotten used to Openbox by installing Debian Bullseye and then rolling up my sleeves and manually tinkering with Openbox until I've got things running exactly how I want.
Honestly crunch bang ++ got me into tiling window managers. Not heavy on resources at all. Very quick. If your keyboard centric, trying to get used to being in a terminal. Beginnings should try i3, bspwm and awesome for beginners. Later on try other dynamic T.W.M. Great video
Nice video. Real fast os solution. Made me think a little bit back in to the atari/amiga and dos periode with Quaterdeck and Windows versions 1 and 2. Simpel and productive.
Crunchbang was one of my first, and got me introduced to Openbox and Conky. I moved on rapidly to Arch+Openbox+Conky, then after rejecting gnome and KDE, I settle on Arch+i3+Conky as my bar for a long time.
Currently on Manjaro+Gnome+i3 but am jumping back to Endeavour+i3/Gnome. I might take a look at Openbox again. What memories!
Put it on old machine due to this video and it runs like a charm. Thanks for the hint!
I really liked Bunsen Labs and would of used it on my desktop if it wasn't so behind. With ++ being based on Debian 11 that's just about as new as I need for most things including hardware support. I will probably download this to give it a spin in a VM. Open box can even look pretty good too, especially with certain compositors.
The new BL is underway, but I don't think it's even frozen yet. That said, I updated a BL desktop with Debian 11 immediately after it was released, and so far haven't seen any problems.
I have this on my Mac…. It’s damn fast and stable
I was a CB user for years and when the project finished I moved to CB++. CB was great and CB++ its exactly the same, the only difference is that CB ++ is not allowing live from a USB. In any case CB++ is a fantastic distribution and its curious to me it doesn't have more attention.
i use bunsen on a super old netbook
its nice as heck
#! gave life to my oldest laptop during 2012-2014
Nice! I see it somehow comparable with Antix (one of my favorite)
Great review as usual!
AntiX is made by AntiFa scum though.
Great video and good to see #! being kept alive.
ok ! I love it! it is very good!
The multiple terminals in one window are very useful for me and my specific use case. I'm gonna try this distro.
You only need to install Terminator on any distro to get that. Not that I'm trying to deter you. I'm using the same Crunchbang installation that I set up in 2013 to edit this comment. Of course I've had to do some major hacking to keep it working after the distro officially died but it's worth it.
I used Crunchbang (#!) 9.04 back on my Celeron Windows 98 SE laptop.
I was always impressed back in 2009 that a 266 mhz machine with 128 MB of RAM could run Chromium and play 480p youtube videos.
More importantly, the laptop had USB 2.0 ports, which let me use a more modern USB wifi dongle that would never have worked on Win9x.
I started out on #!crunchbang was the distro that made me stop distrohoping and focus on learning the operating system it self. needless to say i run debian btw :P
Debian Is Father of Linux Distros!
I have been using linux for many years now and have hopped a lot of distros. I love Debian and usually install it with XFCE. Currently I am on Linux Mint 20, but am really considering jumping to crunchbang. I can do a lot in debian, and my laptop is old af, so this is tempting
Did you?
@@folksurvival I ended up on Artix XFCE lol
The original #! stopped by distro hopping. Question, I have the same CRG9 monitor as you (two actually), do you have to lower the resolution? Thanks. Great channel BTW. Subscribed!
This is great news! I used #! forever. Glad to see it back in this form!! Lightweight, fast, flexible.
And now you can keep using it forever :)
Will you be making a bunsenlabs video too? Or is it just a renamed/reskinned #! version?
Hi. Noob question. My wallpaper keeps reset to default(plain-gray)after reboots. Tried so many forums but no results. THX.
The only thing I don't like is the manual menu. Having to manually add/remove applications to the menu each time you install/remove them is a pain for me, so I replaced the menu with obmenu-generator.
Man I love your channel and your videos, the content is always great, however, I think you may want to improve the titles of your videos and the thumbnails, I don't see your videos in my main youtube page and I have to search for your channel to watch your videos, even when I am subscribed to this channel, keep doing an awesome job man
Late to the party, but would you recommend this or BunsenLabs? I'm trying to decide which one to replace Ubuntu Budgie on my Thinkpad T500. I really like Ubuntu Budgie, but it really taxes the dual core CPU sometimes, even with relatively little going on.
Looks perfect for my old laptop. Simple and functional.
Hell yeah!
Thank you for this video
The only thing Bunsen labs is better in is default color selection for global theming out of the box. I think it has a beautiful yet dark and drab palette. Something about that faded red speaks to me
I just installed Blackbird-gtk and selected the dark "nightmare" theme in CBPP, looks just as cool to me.
excellent video. cbpp is stable! it make's an excellent server platform or desktop OS. What more can you want; speed, stability and simplicity? It is my favorite distro.
I am downloading it now. I updated the CB++ Wikipedia page with the release info.
I would love a similar one with awesomewm (just because that's what I am used to), and that little amount of default apps or even less.
Using crunchbang/bunsenlabs about 5 years. Its rocks
Is that a Forgotten Realms Commander deck in the background?? 🧙♂️🐲🏹
Installing CB++ on my Atomic Pi as I’m watching this. 👍
thanks. I'll try it on a old acer atom netbook with 1gb ram, 8gb SSD
Installed this on an old MacBook Pro. Could not get the wireless driver working. It seems faster than the previous version I had.
May I ask what need to be config for high resolution monitor to work? Would it be the 'cvt 3840 2160', modeline and xrandr --addnew? Thx.
Ah yeah, I recall Crunchbang was gone in 2015.
Hey Jay, guess what distro is getting close to release? It's Slackware. There's gonna be Slackware 15. Yyyyyyyyyup. Gonna have a look at that one?
I hope so, I mean it'll probably be the last Slackware released this decade so....🙃
yeah, original #!(cunchbang) was a distro made and supported by one guy, Philip Newborough (corenominal). Eventually he got tired and gave up. It was just him, no other developers working on the distro, so when he gave up in 2015, no one could blame him.
I've been looking for a light weight distro. Tried Zorin OS. Still slow on my old laptop.
does crunchbang++ have the exact same package availability as debian 12. also are nvidia drivers preinstalled?
Been doing minimal openbox'es since 2005, always in the Crunchbang spirit. If you know your way around, know some scripting etc...it's hard to beat. Very hard.
Installed it at 5 am. Done now. Lotsa theming, chasing programs and editing.config but this thing is bad to the bone. Runs good right from the git go but I'm a freak ;-)
Cool!!!
I think it's really very nice explain
Have you ever done a video tutorial on how to dual boot Win 10 and Linux?
I wish I could install without error which is strange as I can install standard Debian 12 without error. #!++ installer fails at the Grub install
"Let me go ahead and minimize this", gnome and pantheon devs: "we don't need the minimize button". LOL
Tiling window manager users (like me):
@@drishalballaney6590 *dumps random windows at workspace 10"
@@Mathias-bz2kr LMAO,
but better idea to use scratchpads if your WM has it
No need for system tray, either... because, no OS in the world has system tray, right? :D
@@f-s-r when nm-applet needs system tray
In the video you said in Linux, Debian has the largest selection of software. But I thought Arch had the largest selection.
Anyone knows whether switching #!++ to the testing or unstable branches is supported like in Antix?
Probably the moment is now. Try in virtual machine.
While it might work for the moment, I wouldn't count on it working for very long. There are a bunch of specialised packages that are likely to have dependencies in the base Debian install and if any of the base install packages are upgraded in an incompatible way, you will find things breaking without a clear path to fixing them.
That's what happened to my original CB install when the distro died and I upgraded to an unsupported Debian release. I managed to strip out or fix the broken stuff so I kept my system going but it was a close thing to just doing a clean reinstall of Debian. Still I learned quite a bit by persisting with fixing things.
Anybody have any advice on how to install this in a Chromeos container?
That's cool. Never heard of it.
6:33 not matter at all just apt install openbox its linux and have apt and repository has openbox..mean its debian with crunchbang theme linux users call them distro. windows users say too many choises. windows works no need change
I don't understand how it's "lightweight" when it looks like it was using over 800 mb at startup. I have gnome Manjaro on an old laptop and after bootup I'm looking at about 565 mb and it's GNOME! Does anyone have some kind of explanation as to how all the extra RAM goes into a black hole and so it doesn't really count or something?
I tossed it into a VM and out of the gate it was using 398MB with an open Terminator terminal. I forgot to look at Conky before busting open the terminal. :)
I'd call that pretty lightweight.
Ubuntu 21.04 with all snap removed after reboot and settled down 614Mb. Not bad for Gnome I think.
Your incredulity is correct, they are in fact NOT "lightweight" . These Debian based openbox distributions like Crunchbang++, Bunsen labs, and Mabox are all bloated, typically running at 350mb to 440+.
Other tiling windows managers are
1-mostly running with lower overhead,
2-have better systems for tiling and
3- Are more configurable.
I remember a few years ago most openbox was below 300mb often in the low 200s mb.
YMMV, I've got it running on a Core2Duo w/4GB Ram and it clocks in at 550mb on startup. Haven't had any Gnome Distro use under 1GB Ram. Tried Gnome Manjaro, same.
I tried it along time ago and my crappy setup was fast as hell 😁
Ah yeah nice one. I remember the bangs...
Will it run on 32-bit CPUs?
Yes there is a 32bit download
this reminds me of damnsmalllinux if anyone remembers that distro.
I have ubuntu, I would all the other distro's are the same, nothing works, nothing is compatible..
What about Multimedia (codecs) support? Does Crunchbang++ also come with those installed out of the box?
VLC contains all the codecs you could ever imagine. I've yet to find anything that it won't play.
@@dingokidneys I have problems with VLC when it comes to playing certain videos. I'd like to know if Crunchbang++ has codecs out of the box, so I can use GNOME MPV media player with no issues.
@@lloritoovidexequield.8609 I'm using the old Crunchbang but if #!++ is the same it won't include any additional codecs over and above what VLC contains by default. This being a Debian based distro, you can install anything - media player or codecs - that is in the Debian repositories, or with a bit more work anything at all.
@@dingokidneys Can you give me a link to the instructions on how to install multimedia codecs for distros like this?
You should make everything bigger,it is to tiny hard to see
Should I use btrfs or ext4?
ext4 is fine for most users.
2:19 when you see last time roating cube and flames effect LOL. useless things die
How do u do that matrix screen in the back?
x-screensaver maybe
@Voodoo Yam thank you..this works on LM 20 right?
@Voodoo Yam thank u
@Voodoo Yam oh bet. Thank you so much
Looks nice and responsive, anyone try it as a vps?