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Re: Re: Would you agree - Debian is for the tech savvy

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[Yaroslav Halchenko]
 >> And, I am tech-savvy :-)
 >
 > Why wasn't it enough to run these two commands?
 > apt-get install xorg
 > apt-get install fluxbox
 >
 > The instructions on the wiki metion only this:
 > https://wiki.debian.org/FluxBox#Installation

grrrrrrr....


Well, first off, I had to figure out the best display manager. Then, 
install Fluxbox and you got some ugly styling! Then, I had to figure out 
how to config all the gtk stuff and fonts, etc. Then, of course, no 
sound. And how about auto mounting external drives, etc, etc! Or even 
just artwork for grub and lightdm.

Now I can install the whole thing in about 10 minutes, but it was quite 
a chore to do it the first time...coming from a system like Crunchbang 
which was configured with style and grace, I realized how much work when 
into that.

On the other hand, Fluxbox really is just a windows manager and it needs 
a ton of helper packages...nothing like Gnome or KDE.

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        Re: Would you agree - Debian is for the tech savvy Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2016-01-18 18:50 +0100
  Re: Would you agree - Debian is for the tech savvy Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com> - 2016-01-18 18:50 +0100
    Re: Would you agree - Debian is for the tech savvy Stephan Foley <foley12723@gmail.com> - 2016-01-19 07:20 +0100
      Re: Would you agree - Debian is for the tech savvy Daniel Sousa <daniel@sousa.me> - 2016-01-19 07:40 +0100
        Re: Re: Would you agree - Debian is for the tech savvy Stephan Foley <foley12723@gmail.com> - 2016-01-23 03:30 +0100
          Re: Re: Would you agree - Debian is for the tech savvy Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@fluxbox.org> - 2016-01-23 03:50 +0100
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          Re: Re: Would you agree - Debian is for the tech savvy Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> - 2016-02-04 18:10 +0100
            Re: Re: Would you agree - Debian is for the tech savvy Stephan Foley <foley12723@gmail.com> - 2016-02-05 03:00 +0100
              Re: Re: Would you agree - Debian is for the tech savvy Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> - 2016-02-05 10:50 +0100
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