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Experienced Linux users, what are you using?
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Agreed. I found a pleasure in using openbox that I have not found in other DEs. Working with such constrained and frankly crappy hardware made it worth the investment to get the UI as light and functional as it could be, and I'm pleased with the performance I got out of that little machine. It was fun to use. Then it got stolen and I had to start from scratch as I had no backups because I had nothing to back up to, and the task of replicating it all over again seemed daunting, so I decided it was worth getting comfortable with a DE that worked more or less how I wanted it to out of the box. There is something to be said for the ease of defaults, but I've never gotten a machine that "just so" , before or since.