EvilZone
General Tech => Operating System => : Teapot March 12, 2014, 01:13:01 AM
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Hello everyone, i am looking to switch over to *nix. I have narrowed down the results to Crunchbang and Mint. I have researched both of them quite extensively and was leaning more so in the direction of Crunchbang until i read vezzys argument against systemd and as i understand it Debian is now using systemd... so now i am curious as to what the community thinks of these two distros.
Thank you in advance for the input!
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Well, these are both Debian based distros. In fact, the only difference between Crunchbang and Debian is that Crunchbang comes with Openbox and a conky, instead of GNOME. Mint is so similar I can't even really tell the difference between them.
The whole damn Debian family is just 50 of the same distro with a different wallpaper and varying desktop environments.
If this is your first *nix experience I'd say go with Mint. Just as long as you don't even bother with Ubuntu.
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If this is your first *nix experience I'd say go with Mint. Just as long as you don't even bother with Ubuntu.
Haha, i had no intention of going with Ubuntu or any of its knock-offs.
Do you have a recommendation for a non systemd distro?
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Slackware
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To clarify, Mint actually comes with its own distro-specific tools and is prebundled with tons of software to get up the average user going.
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i am currently comparing Slackware V.s Crunchbang
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Slackware
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Crunchbang :) or just install a minimal debian and put openbox on top of it.
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Same thing just different polish.
The polish is something you'll learn to do yourself and stop caring about pre-built and bloated distro's over the years.