![]() ![]() I would still prefer apt-get over pacman because I am more comfortable using that. With my previous experience on Linux Mint, i felt very comfortable using apt-get whereas pacman was a bit difficult initially especially when I did not know what all options it has to offer. Also Arch linux uses pacman as package manager (Used to install software packages). Next thing I saw was that there was no gcc compiler. SWAP was always on 0% for obvious reason. It means that I can run firefox browser and code editor without any lag. I logged into the newly installed system and saw CPU averaging around 2% initially without any running applications and RAM around 10-15% which is very good performance wise. It was about 2GB or something when I looked into root partition diskspace. You can use it to partition your harddrive in case you wish to dual boot with some other operating system like I have done. It comes with a standard partitioner and it is very famous. Each belonging to different partitions ofcourse. I allocated 10GB to root, 10GB to home and 2GB of swap. ![]() So I went on and installed Openbox to a partition. Like switching between apps using Alt+TAB, switching between desktops using Alt+F1-4 etc. The usual shortcut keys work prefectly well. You should know that most LDEs support multi-desktops. The top right corner has system tray with icons of clipboard app, sound (ALSA mixer) and Network connection notifier. From there you can select various program. The first thing I found was that wherever you right click on desktop, it opens up your menu. As of the date of writing this post, it comes with Linux kernel 3.12.20 and desktop env openbox. I downloaded the iso file of Manjaro Openbox (i686/32 bit). All you need to do is edit few XML files or use various GUIs that come along with openbox to edit desktop UI settings. OpenBox lets you control how you want to interact with your desktop environment. Performance wise XFCE would win over OpenBox but not significantly. XFCE being extremely lightweight was a great option indeed but OpenBox has various advantages. I was only left with an option of using either XFCE or OpenBox. ![]() So yeah I only need 4-5 applications running and nothing else. If I want to use graphics editing program, which I rarely use, I just use GIMP for that. To be precise, I only use a browser, terminal, media player and a code editor application. Forget about applications which would be made to run on the leftover RAM. It would probably have taken up 500MB RAM to just load the GUI. So opting KDE, which is likely to make the system slower due to being more graphics intensive. This is the reason why you see less RAM than what is physically present on your hardware. Even from that 1GB of RAM, out of which around 128 MB RAM is shared by GPU. Since the PC is Pentium 4 and has only 1GB of RAM available. There are three desktop environments for it: XFCE, OpenBox and KDE. Manjaro OpenBox is based on Arch Linux and comes with a desktop environment. I personally wanted to go for Arch linux because it lets you control your system in a better way. But being low on physical memory, i had to take a decision on what operating system would be the best that will be good performance wise as well as be somewhat user friendly. HTT simply means that even though there is single physical core available, it appears to the Operating System as if there are two logical Processors. I have a 12 year old Pentium 4 3.06GHz desktop with about 1GB RAM & has Hyper-Threading Technology (It was the latest processor at that time). This is my overall review on Manjaro OpenBox. Manjaro Openbox - A Linux Operating System
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