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close2zero

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From: Norway

Registered: 2025-07-14

Posts: 34

Curiosity brought me here (not the rover)

I have already posted a couple of posts on this forum. I was a CrunchBang usrer back in the days. Towards the end of CrunchBang I got familiar with Arch Linux. Long story short: Instead of going over to BunsenLabs I distrojumped into Arch Linux. Not Manjaro or other Arch based distros. But a pure minimal Arch Linux with all of the same setup and configs CrunchBang had.

I still use about the same setup and configs to this day. I had to make some adjustments over the years of course. But the Desktop environment and the tools I did use back then are basically the same as I use today. I just want to get familiar with the community and I perhaps I can be helpful in some cases. I will probably stay for a while. This seems like a nice community with many names from the time with CrunchBang (R.I.P.).

Hopefully you will treat me well even as an Arch Linux only user. I respect this community cause first Debian, then Ubuntu ,and then Crunchbang, was my way into the amazing world Linux. I have to respect the freedom it gave me, and the people that made it possible. Thank you all..!!

Last edited by close2zero (2025-08-03 09:25:59)

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while true; do mount /dev/close2zero /mnt/clarity; done

truelinux

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Registered: 2025-08-03

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Re: Curiosity brought me here (not the rover)

I'm new to this forum too, but not to BunsenLabs Boron - it's my favorite distro. I use it on my HP i7 and it flies - and boots up in 20 seconds! I was also a CrunchBang user, but BL Boron 12 years later is a real advancement. It's interesting how you can abandon that desktop environment and never look back - just using Openbox Window Mgr.

As for jumping to Arch, I've used it too and just about everything else in the past 13 years. I always come back to Debian, but Arch is a great minimalist distro, and very fast. Awhile back I read an interview with Judd Vinet, the Arch creator. Nicest guy - you can tell he never meant for Arch to be only for the elite or the snarky gatekeepers that seized on it and gave it such a bad rap. He simply spent a lot of time on his innovative package manager and NOT on making the install of his OS easy, thus those who could set it up came to lord it over those who couldn't.

Anyway, BL Boron is my distro now - looking forward to checking out Carbon with Debian Trixie, but I couldn't be happier with Boron. Welcome.

Last edited by truelinux (2025-08-04 19:57:27)

close2zero

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From: Norway

Registered: 2025-07-14

Posts: 34

Re: Curiosity brought me here (not the rover)

@truelinux Thanks for the welcome. But take a look at this beauty:

A minimal Arch Linux install + xorg-server, xorg-xinit, openbox, tint2, conky, etc.. This is just old school setups and configs. I got used to it in CrunchBang, and I still use it to this day (+- a few tweaks)

[edit: changed my wallpaper so you can see better that I have transparency even without a composite manager]

Last edited by close2zero (2025-08-04 21:50:08)

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while true; do mount /dev/close2zero /mnt/clarity; done

Döbbie03

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Re: Curiosity brought me here (not the rover)

Welcome to the forum.

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close2zero

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From: Norway

Registered: 2025-07-14

Posts: 34

Re: Curiosity brought me here (not the rover)

Welcome to the forum.

Thanks. Nice to be here.

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while true; do mount /dev/close2zero /mnt/clarity; done

truelinux

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Registered: 2025-08-03

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Re: Curiosity brought me here (not the rover)

Cool - like that blue color - a work of art!

@truelinux Thanks for the welcome. But take a look at this beauty:
https://i.postimg.cc/K1ZYxTpm/screenshot.png

A minimal Arch Linux install + xorg-server, xorg-xinit, openbox, tint2, conky, etc.. This is just old school setups and configs. I got used to it in CrunchBang, and I still use it to this day (+- a few tweaks)

[edit: changed my wallpaper so you can see better that I have transparency even without a composite manager]

Last edited by truelinux (2025-08-05 15:23:36)

DeepDayze

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From: In Linux Land

Registered: 2017-05-28

Posts: 1,966

Re: Curiosity brought me here (not the rover)

Welcome to the forum @close2zero and I dig that simple Arch setup. I had a similar setup but with AntiX Linux.

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close2zero

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From: Norway

Registered: 2025-07-14

Posts: 34

Re: Curiosity brought me here (not the rover)

@truelinux and @DeepDayze Thank you for the warm welcome. I'll probably stay here for a while

And truelinux. If you really like that wallpaper I can mail the original .png to you in real high quality and definition (5120 × 2880 pixels) if you like. Just say the word and it's done.

The one I am using as wallpaper is scaled down to my laptop resolution (1920x1080) and gimped to blackened the area behind my conky. I do not use a composite manager. Therefore I had to tweak my conky config to get full transparency, and then use a bit of creativity with gimp to get semi transparency by using about 75% blackening in a square directly on my wallpaper. Or more precise: I made a gimp overlay on 1920x1080 I can paste into any 1920x1080 wallpaper to replicate the same without any more work. I rather do this than installing a composite manager. I use an old laptop and uses all my skills to avoid bloating my system, to keep it snappy even tho it's old.

See you around

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while true; do mount /dev/close2zero /mnt/clarity; done