WTF is Mabox Linux?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 มี.ค. 2022
- Today I take a very brief look at Mabox Linux, a Manjaro based distro.
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I tried it in a vm and was so happy with the snappy performance, I ended up installing on a laptop and absolutely love it. My fave distro atm. Glad you got to check it out.
This is a fantastic distro!!!! You only scratched the surface. There is so much more to this gem. It's amazing!!!! Thanks Matt!! 😀
Oh I get it! It's Mabox because it's from Manjaro with OpenBox
NIce to see Mabox getting some attention. I switched to it from Manjaro when their community Openbox maintainer had to retire late in 2021. I would have tried maintaining it myself, but I am similarly a bit long in the tooth to commit to such a project, so I'm letting younger folks do all the preconfiguration. :)
I fell in love with #!'s brilliant Debian-based treatment of Openbox years and years ago, and switched to Manjaro when I needed up-to-date audio and video software but was no longer looking for the deep Linux learning experience that is Arch. Twenty years ago, I'd have chosen Arch, but man it takes time to learn new things and I've not got nearly as much of it as I used to! So again, I let the young folks at Manjaro take care of most of the system-halting bugs on the bleeding edge.
Openbox has never had a single place for GUI customization; since it is just a window manager, it is up to the maintainer/user to find or develop tools to consolidate theming the window manager itself (Openbox Config was the first theme manager you found) with that of the interface elements (lxappearance in this case), plus the wallpaper, panels, and whatever other eye candy one has installed. It is kind of a DIY approach that Openbox makes necessary--unlike KDE or Gnome--but myself, I love the minimalist design that #! so expertly pulled out of Openbox. Mabox is just one of #!'s design successors, I'd say.
The Mabox Theme Manager is a custom tool built on yad and it pulls all of the above together: wallpaper, window decorations and widgets, the tint2 panel, and conky all can be themed in one place, but in order to customize your own theme, you have to tweak all of those things separately yourself.
I have no idea how Mabox is pronounced. I call it may-box becuz I grew up in the Deep South of the US. But the primary maintainer lives in Poland, and I don't know what the average 'a' sound is in Polish.
May-be it doesn't matter. :)
Matt: Great video!
I have been using Mabox for over 2 months or so.
Great distro!
Love OB the way Mabox uses it in the distro.
They have customized so many functions w/tin2 panel and the side left/right menus.
Before running anything, my PC is at 400MB free memory.
Very snappy and fun to use.
This and Arcolinux are my main distros now.
Your videos keep getting better all the time.
Keep it up!
Blessings.
I use Mabox on an elderly Macbook and it works a treat and as done for over the last six months.
The 'free -m' error is probably because they have an alias set for 'free' with a non-compatible option or with -m already set.
yes, it's already aliased with that option. this is a thing with Manjaro in general.
yeap, can confirm - some distros, Manjaro too, have free=free -m by default, so "free -m -m" doesn't make sense, but hints to you in the terminal that the app is in fact installed
I would assume the first theme manager you tried was just changing the WM theme and not the GTK theme. The second one was changing both plus the tint2 and conky theme I believe.
Nice video man, I installed manjaro on a machine of mine but never really used it but it makes me want to install this distro and try it out. Cool video!
I use archlabs with openbox, I gotta say, I'm tempted to distro hop.
Jaw drops onto desk.
hi, i'm a newbie and i have a old pc and I installed mabox but with a few too many dependencies and who knows what ... in fact it has become too slow, I would first do a clean installation of mabox linux again! I would like to have a tip to have the maximum compatibility of mac and windows programs (filmora 11) and simplicity thanks to Aur, snap and flatpack. It would also be useful to install Yay, Auracle-git, Aurutilus? If so, in what order of sequence? Thank you.
I used this on live USB for a while as I waited for my new ssd, and wasn't disappointed at all
I used this one for a while .
If you like openbox , it's a very good distro .
I'm currently running Freebsd but when I ran Slackware Current as my main OS I had Mabox on another partition just in case Slackware Current would break. It never did for the 3 years I ran it; but I really did like Mabox . And now they offer a 5.4 kernel for those with older hardware, a very nice touch.
Mabox had no issues for me. I once ran Crunchbang on an old Dell laptop years ago and loved it. So to have an Arch/Manjaro based #! alternative is awesome since I prefer Arch/Manjaro to Debian.
Interesting, I've been using manajro for a long time now, loved it but I'm probably going to jump to NixOS (not because of anything that happened with Manjaro but NixOS seems especially appealing to me). I didn't think anyone would try to created a manjaro-based distro, does it still use pamac?
No, the latest release is in Sourceforge. It's actively developed, not abandoned.
Yeah. I saw that while editing. Their website was not updated which is why I got confused.
I loved Manjaro when I switched over to Linux a few years ago. Just everything worked and worked great.. After about 2 years, things started to just not work or would freeze up constantly... I eventually distro hopped for a few days and moved on. I really Like OpenBox and I really like KDE.. MabLox is real nice eye candy out of the box. Just afraid to commit to a Manjaro Arch Based distro again. I know the system is as good as you treat you it, and I treat my systems very well, might install on it on my extra laptop and see how long itll run before issues arise if they do. Looks really nice. Thanks for the video, nice video as well. Whats your Main OS?
I tried Manjaro Sway yesterday on an old laptop and I'm loving it. Since it uses Wayland the touchscreen support is excellent out of the box and it's way lighter than Gnome
If things keep this way I might install it on my main laptop.
Not sure if my comment got nuked by youtube but yeah beautiful openbox distro. My first wm-only venture, very fun Window manager to start with. Most of these distributions with open box are beautiful, like CrunchbangPlusPlus-Debian. I recommend checking that out.
I ran CB++ as a daily driver for about 2 years. Awesome distro indeed and preferable to me over Mabox and Bunsen that are overloaded with options.
I have been using this distribution as my primary system for a long time. Not bad.
Matt I did try this out on a spare tower and I thought it was like KDE with a 1,000 ways to theme it and way more than I wanted. Openbox is not my cup of tea either but I did have fun with it. The distro did have a bunch of updates the 1st time I ran it but did have the normal Arch update and some distro update's as well from time to time... The hillbilly in me calls it Ma(y)Box but that is must me and I to am wrong at times too!
Great video Matt Opps and all... :-)
LLAP
when you use a higher resolution, X defaults to a higher DPI font, sometimes it exaggerates, that a typical default behavior when using openbox
which linux you are using in your current machine
Arco
Is that a Vortex Race 3 in the background I see? Nice keyboard.
It sure is. It's okay. I'd be happier if I had the red switch version instead of the blues. But I bought that before I really knew the difference. I'd also love it to have usb-c.
@@TheLinuxCast haha me to! Was my first mech keyboard, and ya the blue switches are not my favourite especially for gaming.
what "release twice in a year" means? Isn't it a rolling release distro?
I have preveously used netrunner linux based on manjaro which is discontinued
Interesting, Mabox isn’t something that I’ve heard of in a while. Last time I tried using this I had issues (Probably due to those Nvidia drivers xD) but it looked really pretty, and I’m always a fan of Openbox.
There are well balanced darks and you can customize cuz a plain general dark doesn't adjust to work as in other distros
You mentioned the fast install--- well, I had it installed, everything I need ADDED , configured nd working great in less than 2 hours-- everything else I ever installed takes a LOT longer-- takes around 5-6 hours for mosts MINT type thing- by the time I add my stuff and set everything up the way I want it... so this was BLAZING fast... I just wish they hadn't screwed it UP.
This looks like a real nice distro, but it's hard to bump me off of arcolinux. Maybe I will replace LInux Mint on my laptop with this.
I love KDE, openbox and gnu-linux. I laught on loud when I hear about "linux fragmentation"
Along with Mabox is Archcraft, which will give you a fully customized Openbox and BSPWM.
Thanks for the video!
that's the problem... customized... not customizable... big difference
I tried MaBox fo a while on a spare computer and it was cool and all. I'm just not a Openbox guy either... :-)
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@@FeelingShred Mabox is highly customizable..you can add your own workspace sessions or create new themes to be added, the developer has created mabox tools to ease customize panels, conky, or add one's own and also added a tool to reset mabox openbox basic default desktop in case of breaking the system
@@BrucesWorldofStuff Yeah I'm more of a Xfce guy, but I see Xfce being half-abandones these days and having too many glitches/bugs... over 2 weeks of a session without reboot, I see the panel indicators leak memory, I kill the panel and something like 900 Megs of memory being reclaimed, WTF... pulseaudio icon disappears from panel constantly, it's a nightmare... nm-applet acting up, I'm not sure what the heck is going on
The error on free at 6:10 "Multiple unit options doesn't make sense" implies the distro has an alias in the shell's .rc file that conflicts with -m. 'which free | xargs -m' should get around it.
Been on Mabox for six months, its great.
IF there is a drawback to this distro- it's TOO MUCH choice-- too many places to change the same things... adn ONE will interfere with the other sometimes... :) But I still LOVE it.
Let’s graduate to reviewing obscure gentoo based distros
How about gentoo itself? 😂
nice video
the "multiple options thing" is because "free' is already aliased as "free -m" so just invoking "free" works
Yup, I have learned.
I've got to agree this distro looks cool, it does need to exist unlike those you get to wonder "who the hell needs this?", thanks Matt.
Arch environment is lacking GUI tools (or even just automated scripts) to help people create custom ISO's or Snapshots... no matter how hard these guys stuck to their stubborness, your distros are not going to get massive adoption unless people can easily customize them... which is a shame since I loved how practical the pacman package manager felt to use, very straightforward and easy to use
There's arcolinux and endeavor os
Matt Bro...!!! you missed the UPDATES AVALABLE Notification Right AFTER you installed it 🙃😅✌ (maybe that's why there were things missing/misbehaving) GB✝YA..!
I think somewhere along the line I did updates, maybe off camera. I usually do them, but I might have missed something
take a quick peek at when you JUST finished installing and you're explaining the Welcome screen at the *TOP Right,* it Pops up and DISSAPEARS *so fast* and you _Look at the CAMERA at the SAME time_ and maybe lost it there
[it must be a GUI updater that ULTRA WinDos NoooBs like us would find useful and easier, and YES, I DID see you use the command line to update later 😁✌]
Grab Broot from the Aur... this might be interesting to you
I tried this one llong ago back when I was first getting started in "hopping". Too much choice for a beginner.. I easliy f..d things up !! ha.- but it's GREAT once you have a little kde experience and are familiar with what it all does. It's also SUPER FAST.. extremely lgitht weight- and I'm sure even better NOW than when I tried it the first time.
Just wait till you try "MASS OS"...
free -h should work
Still better manjaro detecting my wifi card automatically
First! Fun video as usual.
I had Manjaro Budgie and loved that--- and then tried MABOX and really loved that... but then they did an overall upgrade one day and everything went to hell in a handbasket as the old saying goes-- stuff would change on its own, or not work at all- and it was just like it lost its mind. I had to give it up- need to do actual WORK- and not spend all day FIXING what I had fixed the day before.... IF- however, they give notice that the crap has been FIXED-- I'd LOVE To have this- MABOX for a daily driver.. It's beautiful- easily changed to be anything I want- and VERY fast... I'm waiting for the ntice that the "upgrade" that screwed it all up- is FIXED!! I NEVER use a virtual anything--and it STILL went wonky- BIGTIME!!
Man u have trouble getting breath when just talking, u should think about ur health a little myb
the last time I tried something like this is when I installed Endeavour os i3wm on my Thinkpad. I've had the same kind of problem with multiple theming tools resulting in inconsistent mouse cursor theme. I have found the solution on forums for this, so if you have this bug - dm, or @ me, I'll share it
Share it pls
@@Pattoloko98 it seems I can't post links here. Try googling "archlabs solved issue with cursor theme", and running the script in post #10