BunsenLabs Linux

Reader supplied reviews for BunsenLabs Linux Average rating 8.4 from 36 review(s) Please selecting a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on BunsenLabs Linux? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- boron-1beryllium-1lithium-3helium-52017042920160710 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: boron-1 Rating: 7 Date: 2024-07-11 Votes: 6 Bunsenlabs was based on Crunchbang Linux and the look and feel has remained true to the very excellent design philosophy of Crunchbang (also known as #!). Bunsenlabs aims to be a lean operating system with innovative approaches to solving technical issues other Distr's simply ignore. Their forums are packed with useful advice and technical help. I often visit even when I am trying to fix a machine with Ubuntu or Manjaro as its operating system. I am a long time user of Bunsenlabs and used have used various releases . It is a great distribution with very dedicated and truly knowledgeable programmers, developers, and other personnel. It is not a production distro, you wouldnt use it, for example, in a critical role within a business. You can think of it as being a sort of experimental Debian with Openbox, but the Bunsenlabs developers design a lot of their own software for full compatibility, and spend time theming the apps to fit in nicely with everything else. There is a lot right with the distro. It is extremely well documented and all the documentation has links to it within the menu system. They use jgmenu, which I like a lot, by the way as it is easy to configure and theme to your exact liking. On the downside there isnt a lot of support for switching from the Nvidia open source Nouveau drivers to Nvidia proprietary drivers. I must admit I am not as keen on the version called Boron, as I was about the other versions. I found a big problem with using sound engineering software and sound sequencers, which I have not found with any other distribution or Bunsenlabs version, and, sadly, I have reverted to using Linux Mint with Openbox until the issue is sorted. So to finish up, I would say that Bunsenlabs distro is unique, beautiful, with very dedicated and technically brilliant people behind it. You should try it if you want to experiment and improve your Linux knowledge and be part of a friendly community. Unfortunately the Boron release seems slightly over-engineered to the point where there are too many themes and the menu structures and setup files are too convoluted. It is getting more difficult to understand what the developers are doing and to fix it when it goes wrong. Hopefully they will get back toward the simplicity and beauty of Crunchbang. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: boron-1 Rating: 7 Date: 2024-06-02 Votes: 1 Lo instalé hace alrededor de un mes, La pega que le encuentro es el compositor, ralentiza mucho la máquina. El arrastre de ventanas es opdioso y, como no sé ingles, no sé cómo solucionar eso. También el compositor traba los videos de youtube, lo desactivo y va mejor. Así y todo los frames en youtube son lentos. Agradecería una mano con eso. Tengo una PC ASUS de 2013 con procesador de 6 núcleos y 4 GB de memoria, sin placa de video adicional. ---- I installed it about a month ago. The downside I find is the composer, it slows down the machine a lot. Dragging windows is obnoxious and, since I don't know English, I don't know how to fix that. The composer also blocks the YouTube videos, I deactivate it and it works better. Still, the frames on YouTube are slow. I would appreciate a hand with that. I have a 2013 ASUS PC with a 6-core processor and 4 GB of memory, without an additional video card. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: boron-1 Rating: 9 Date: 2024-05-03 Votes: 5 Used this for a long time on Asus EE pc903 and as a OS for parents machine. It is wonderful albeit the idea that usually when you want to customize something a editor opens. Like tint2 editor now in latest Boron is not perhaps the best when you are on 'what is Ubuntu even?' level but if you are looking into a favorite distro with no frills and dont get scared of editors opening then this is the thing. I always comes back to this one. I guess old Crunchbang left it's impression on me. Though i was mesmerized by blackbox back in the late 90's already. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 36 reader reviews of BunsenLabs Linux...