[amanvir]

I'm currently running Crunchbang on Acer 14inch laptop with an i7 processor and 4gb ram, I removed the stickers so I don't know the model number but this machine runs like a beast when using Crunchbang. The distro is based on Debian but I'm sure ubuntu or any other GNU/Linux distro will work fine with it too. I'd recommend it, its pretty fun to use and portable too (14inch screen is just the right size for programming whilst also maintaining true portablity, you don't want to be running around with a 17inch laptop do you?). Also its pretty affordable too, I got it around 10 months ago for £550 which was a great deal

[dfc]

I'm curious why you do not run debian and install openbox? What does crunchbang add to the miox?

not trolling, genuinely curious

[zacharydenton]

CrunchBang is the best-looking distro I've come across. It also comes with scripts that will install common proprietary software like Chrome or Dropbox.

Obviously you could accomplish all of that by installing Debian and spending hours configuring it yourself, but that seems unnecessary when others have already done it for you.

[dfc]

Spending hours to install Chrome?

    apt-get install chromium

Or just go to the chrome download page and download the official chrome debian package?

I'm also not sure that chrome ios "proprietary software."

[zacharydenton]

To be clear, the part that takes hours to accomplish is "best-looking distro I've come across".

Of course it's not difficult to install Google Chrome (or Chromium for that matter). It just saves time to have it installed automatically.