Count me as another huge fan and longtime user of openbox. The functionality I get from my desktop is insane, as is the speed and reliability.
I’ve been using openbox only for the last 20 years or so and I loved it. For the last 3-4 months I moved to labwc…and again, I’m loving it. I’ve neve felt the need for a full desktop.
I use an distro called ‘Bunsen Labs’, which was created as a successor to CrunchBang Linux when maintenance of that distro ceased. It uses OpenBox as the WM, and works well for an old laptop and for random VMs I spin up to test things (my test Lemmy instance runs on it).
crunchbang is awesome, never did the bunsen labs, but i do have a live crunchbang plus plus usb for recovery and lightweight live distro. i think its debian 12 with openbox.
I also love bunsenlabs and used it a lot. It’s so ridiculously light. I have it running on a pentium M laptop and it’s surprisingly usable. Don’t get me wrong it’s still a 20 year old device with one cpu core, but it can do most things.
I used Openbox directly without a DE for a number of years on my netbook. It was perfectly serviceable for that use case, but I don’t think I’d have been as happy with it for my main workstation or personal desktop.
loved slackware with openbox on my netbook back in the days. running pop os and i3wm now, i prefer it over openbox or fluxbox now. it is my daily driver work horse, stable and low on resources. easy to configure.
