Where did all these Flux users come from? Slackware?

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Abraxas · Post by **Abraxas** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 11:44 pm

Random thought:

I've always been a fan of Fluxbox and it seems Gentoo users are in general. One thing I've noticed is that a lot of Gentoo users are former Slack users and a lot of Slack users seem to love Flux too. Anyone one else notice this or am I just crazy?

duff · Post by **duff** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 11:46 pm

Former RH 7.x user here. Since I was trying a new distro thought I'd also try a new window manager. First heard of Fluxbox while reading the forums, tried it on my first Gentoo installed and have been using it for about 1.5 years now.

Ari Rahikkala · Post by **Ari Rahikkala** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 11:57 pm

Just wait 'til they've all switched over to Kahakai

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oniq · Post by **oniq** » Thu Jan 01, 2004 12:08 am

I use GNOME and used to be a Slack user.. Also played with Mandrake, Debian, and others. But mainly Slackware.

DoktorSeven · Post by **DoktorSeven** » Thu Jan 01, 2004 1:39 am

Huge Flux fan but never a Slack user. I was just trying out different lightweight desktops, found Flux, and fell in love...

lizardloop · Post by **lizardloop** » Thu Jan 01, 2004 1:50 am

I started with KDE on Mandrake, then when I switched to gentoo someone suggested fluxbox as an alternative to spending all day compiling. I used that for about 5 months and I'am now using fvwm and I love it, so configurable, it's a dream.

GenKiller · Post by **GenKiller** » Thu Jan 01, 2004 7:47 am

I was a KDE fan for ages with Red Hat, and then kept it when I switched to Gentoo. I then added a second video card and KDE was too ugly with it for my tastes, so I decided to go with Fluxbox. After I went with it on my desktop, I couldn't help but switch my laptop over to it also, I love it so much.

hook · Post by **hook** » Thu Jan 01, 2004 8:20 am

I was using Slackware for quite some time ...it was my only (then working on my 486) distro at home. I loved KDE (1.x at the time) and still do, but had to find a more lightweight wm ...so i tried, and tried, and tried quite a few (icewm, blackbox, windowmaker, fvwm,...) ...but in the whole I liked blackbox the most (i can still see the Almo theme before my eyes:)). Windowmaker was also nice, yea.

Anyhow, thus years with slackware have passed and I used mostly KDE and Blackbox (and WindowMaker ...I justcouldn't let it die off on my PC).
When I got my new PC (this athlon-tbird here), there wasn't much hesitation on the de/wm part on my first Gentoo install: KDE and a blackbox-like wm.

vificunero · Post by **vificunero** » Thu Jan 01, 2004 9:27 am

I'm still a slackware user too. On my old desktop I use fluxbox with slackware: I love them as my gnome 2.5.1 on my gentoo notebook.

Ravaa · Post by **Ravaa** » Thu Jan 01, 2004 9:50 am

i'm a long time slackware user. i switched to gentoo for hte package management. i used to use enlightment on slack (and flux before that ^ ^ ). now i just run fluxbox with gentoo. nice clean and easy.

dice · Post by **dice** » Thu Jan 01, 2004 11:01 am

Former Slack user, I run Waimea

Development? HAH! That's for window managers with bugs!

Plain-old-Jeb · Post by **Plain-old-Jeb** » Thu Jan 01, 2004 1:03 pm

I'm a gnome user all the way, I did try out some lightweight desktops i.e. openbox never tried fluxbox

but I found I much prefered gnome and on a system with 1gb of memory it really doesn't matter

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Corky · Post by **Corky** » Thu Jan 01, 2004 2:23 pm

I came from slackware/suse and had only really used KDE before gentoo.

Egil.B · Post by **Egil.B** » Thu Jan 01, 2004 4:15 pm

I used Openbox 2.x with SuSE. Now I use Fluxbox unstable with Gentoo, although I built it without portage.

Corona688 · Post by **Corona688** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 4:27 pm

KDE user here, former Mandrake/Gnome user. I don't think we need to look for a big flux conspiracy, a lightweight window manager's bound to be popular on a distro that compiles as much as it can. 'emerge kde' can take the better part of an afternoon.

nooseisloose · Post by **nooseisloose** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 5:15 pm

I first saw fluxbox in knoppix-std.

Tyir · Post by **Tyir** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 5:51 pm

oh, well, I seem to be the only other one

fluxbox user, former used slackware

Hauser · Post by **Hauser** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 7:48 pm

Mandrake->Slackware->Debian->Gentoo
KDE->Windowmaker->Fluxbox->XFCE4->KDE

Some other things (such as Redhat or Gnome) omitted here (only tried for too short a period of time to have any impression).

ciaranm · Post by **ciaranm** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 8:47 pm

I started using fluxbox after I switched to Gentoo. Got sick of all the bigger stuff and fell in love with tabs...

user808 · Post by **user808** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 9:36 pm

I have used fluxbox off and on for a while now. I previously used Slackware but have used fluxbox longer. Tried other WMs but flux stuck.

ChojinDSL · Post by **ChojinDSL** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 2:08 am

I think one good reason why so many gentoo users are fluxbox users is perhaps the same reason why I chose fluxbox.

"Finished my stage1 install. finished emergin xorg, now I want a desktop FAST!"
"Kde? Gnome?, I'll emerge that later, for now I need something tiny, yet functional, just to start exploring the system.... oh look at this, fluxbox... hmm, sounds interesting, and its damn small... ok, emerge fluxbox...."

months later:

Still havent emerged kde or gnome...

electrofreak · Post by **electrofreak** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 3:09 am

A friend introduced fluxbox to me when I was using Debian. I thought it sucked because apt had the last stable version, which is like 0.1.11 or something really old. At the time I didn't know much about the stuff and didn't really know how to go to the website and compile it for myself. Now thats about the easiest thing to do for me, but, yeah... Since portage has the bleeding-edge version of fluxbox, I found it a lot nicer, especially after some configuration, which can be confusing since its nothing like KDE's GUI config, if you know what I mean.

myuser · Post by **myuser** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 7:26 pm

Flux is a fast compile, and does a pretty good job, I think that porbably explains the corelation.

MrApples · Post by **MrApples** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 11:47 pm

myuser wrote:Flux is a fast compile, and does a pretty good job, I think that porbably explains the corelation.

i agree, i dont think liking fluxbox knows a certain distribution

Huey1 · Post by **Huey1** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 11:58 pm

'emerge kde' can take the better part of an afternoon.

Corona688 has a faster box! I reworked an old 600MHz P3 destined to be a router and mailer. It has my first Gentoo. Maybe I should have left it as a text-only box, but I like to be able to copy/paste from the howtos. I typed 'emerge kde' sometime around 10:30 on Saturday morning. gcc is still pounding the path at 23:53 on Sunday.

Where did all these Flux users come from? Slackware?

Where did all these Flux users come from? Slackware?

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