Thanks for starting this topic as I was about to make a similar one. Honestly I found out about Mabox while doing the dishes lol. I needed to wash up and while I was doing that I wanted some background noise so I turned on Youtube and an OldTechBloke video game up comparing this distro with a Manjaro Openbox community edition. I was very impressed with Mabox and decided to give it a whirl in a VM. Iām still using it after a couple of days and considering making it my daily driver. I am not sure if Iāll do that though as my Ubuntu 20.04 installation is working just fine so Iām hesitant to fix what aināt broke. Still, I enjoy using Openbox and the Mabox implementation is one of the best I have seen so I think Iāll continue using the VM and keep Mabox top of mind in case my Ubuntu installation becomes problematic.
Hi gatton. Iām not a fan of VM, so I added Mabox as the third OS on my laptop. It lives with Xubuntu 16.04 and Xubuntu 18.04. (Iāll try Xubuntu 20.04 after they release 20.04.1)
I agree with the ābackground noiseā requirement, especially now days where staying home is a good safety strategy. My poor old laptop doesnāt have enough guts to play videos, but Iāve got a lot of music and audiobooks to help break the silence.
Hi LiquidSky,
I used to be an inveterate ādistro hopperā. So I find that virtualbox helps to curb that instinct as I can indulge in playing with other distros and seeing if the grass really is greener so to speak. So far I am really impressed with how well Mabox is running in a VM on my decidedly so-so machine. Iāve given it 4gigs of ram and 4 CPU cores and it is running fantastically. No complaints whatsoever.