Mabox is a Manjaro-based rolling release distribution. Mabox Linux features the Openbox window manager as its default interface and provides a welcome screen with access to utilities which add additional software to the operating system.
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just installed yesterday and immediately fell in love,i switched from arcolinux which has constant issues and after recent update now uses over a 1gb ram now at idle,after i set up mabox to my liking(main menu made all my changes so easy)i,m running at around 380mb at idle.not to mention how elegant mabox design is,its quite beautiful.hats off to the folks at mabox and thank you very much for this beautiful operating system.ps.,just as a side note the iso install via usb took less than ten minutes total,i mean ten minutes after plugging in usb stick to restart less than ten minutes,amazing.
I usi it primary os on my comp. Very light and fast system. Beside this the openbox, tint2, jgmenu configuration is very easy. It needs time to see it through the panels, but after this time You can setup everything very very fast. This Colorize app is very useful. Unfortunetly not all of the themes can be setup perfectly, but You can create random and own looks. Mabox uses Manjaro stable branch - so I dont have any problem with stability issues. Mabox uses light and small apps - which are chngeable. Fe. I prefer vlc and not mplayer.
I really like this distro. It is very fast. I'm using it on a i3 with 32gb ram (shuttle xpc) and as an external drive on another linux distro. If I have a con, it would have to do with the configuration for autostart. I was able to alter the configuration to get clamtk and plank to work....but unable to get the firewall to come up. No real problem as I can use other ways to bring the firewall up. I definitely count Mabox as one of my favorites which surprised me as I am working with over 20 distros. Manjaro is really easy to use and my appreciation for the variations will nudge me to contribute monetarily soon to the developers of Mabox. So much to learn with Mabox....so boredom is not a current problem. I used ventoy to install Mabox on both devices. No problem with installing it.
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