hahA, not me who installs around 18 of them as a bare minimum LOL
thankfully though, I don’t have any real issues with it yet
I use 3 and i probably will never install more than 6 if i ever did. Same as i don’t open a zillion tabs in the browser. Rarely do i ever open more than a few tabs. Why…because they take resources (memory)!
I just prefer to configure my browser for more privacy, so I use most of the recommended addons from that category… although many privacy experts advocate for using less addons because using more causes the browser to become more unique and more recognizeable
as for the tabs… I also try to minimize them too, but then again I’m such a mess that my opened (but not loaded) tab record was… around 1400 
I don’t know how my browser didn’t explode, but it sure did lag a lot
I thought “there must be something important in them for me to read later”, so I decided to just bookmark them all and close them… that was years ago and I still haven’t taken a look at them I need help I know
edit: by the way, I’m not even sure if such off-topic talk is allowed here, so… in case it’s not, I apologize for so much of it
1 Like
@archiee
Sorry for writing such a sudden impression. I’ve tested Archcraft Openbox with Arc-Easy style and I like the whole distro. It’s polished as opposed to EOS community Openbox. Mabox is attractive as well many shortcuts is put on the screen.
Why openbox? I think it helps learning an easy to use system.
The structure of rc.xml is understandable although i3 config is more concise. All in all Archcraft Openbox is a good combination.
Disadvantage is the ‘bus factor’. If you do not trust such a small distro then try to recreate some nice things in EOS.
1 Like
I think this is a good idea for a beginner. Install Openbox in EOS, log in from time to time and learn how to set it up.
Basically, you can recreate the looks and functionality of one distro on all other distros, except for some distro-specific tools. If you miss some of those, equivalents are often in the AUR. Most importantly, you’ll learn something and become more independent. Distrohopping tends to distrupt learning when you’re starting out.
3 Likes
oh yeah. Learning the difference between a distro and a desktop environment (and also a window manager) was the 2+2 that I needed, really stopped me from “I have to get this distro because of it’s visuals”
yeah but… gotta be sure that the specific AUR source that is being used is trustworthy and doesn’t have any bad stuff included
I mean it’s not like I expect it from every AUR source… it’s just the problem of not knowing how common it is, and, as a newbie, having absolutely no idea how to tell apart a trustworthy AUR source from an utrustworthy one
2 Likes
You’ll get to it.
For every single package you want to install, look it up and read about it in the Arch package search page. Lots of info there. I spent a week trying to get timeshift to work. Could have saved that week with one short look at the Arch package page, to see that it had an optional dependency which would make it do what I wanted to. And above all, read the archwiki page for every package, if there is one.
Do the same for AUR packages, on the Arch Aur package searh page. Look at the comments. Follow the links to the original project, which is often a github page with lots of info. Do that also in the official Arch package search page, follow the link upstream if there is one.
Check out Timeshift, or even better snapper and btrfs, if you haven’t already.
Take small steps. Good luck!
1 Like