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Mabox is a Manjaro based, desktop Linux distribution. The project ships with Openbox as the default desktop with pinch of customistations and home-brewed tools, like improved menu, side-panels and Mabox Control Center.
Works great even on weaker computers.
Features
- Easy installation
- Lightweight
- Highly Configurable
- Power and Flexibility of Manjaro Linux
- Preconfigured, ready to use Openbox
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Really nice lightweight version of Manjaro (therefore Arch BTW!) Boots very quickly off a USB stick, probably the fastest I've ever seen and I've seen a LOT over the last 20 years. The default desktop is a bit too busy for my liking but is easy to customise to your own taste and it didn't take too long to arrange the desktop as I prefer it with a bottom taskbar and single click to open things. Always did like the lighter window managers like JWM in Puppy Linux and this highly polished working of OpenBox is great with obviously a lot of time put into it - well done the people responsible. Found an interesting little utility in the system section called btop++ which shows CPU temperatures as well as the normal stats displayed by top or htop. Internet radio as an option on the speaker icon settings with access to some classic albums. That's a cute little feature I've never seen before. A definite contender for resurrecting older hardware where Antix Linux is usually my first choice, but now I have two ;o
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This should be how Manjaro comes default. For some reason openbox works so well for this distro, it's like it was designed for it. The Manjaro team has done a great job here - I tend to find distros that come with WMs to have overlapping applications for settings/themeing/configuration that can easily make a beginner user confused. This is far from the case with Mabox. My only worry is that it's more of a secondary distro and doesn't quite get the developer attention it deserves. If you're new to Window Managers, this is the distro for you.
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Linux user since 1996 (!). Using Mabox since 2001: awesome distro!
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Been using Mabox for a while and found it stable and easy to use. A huge thanks to the Mabox team. Awesome job!
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Easy to edit themes, good forum, and unique to only this distro properties makes it the best one imo. Goodluck dev and community, and thanks for making this terrific os.