[burkean]

I like Crunchbang for political, not technical reasons. It doesn't matter to me if every package is vanilla Debian.

Crunchbang provides an opinionated set of defaults for what a composable, 'minimal' Linux desktop might look like. These days, I would build what I want from a Debian base install. But the reason why I would care to do so, is that distros like Crunchbang showed me that the composable approach worked so well. It makes new Linux users care about playing with their environments, which, for good or ill, is a venerable long-time Free Software user preoccupation.