I downloaded the ISO for ArchBang and figured out how to put it on a flash drive. It works. I am not sure what I think of it using Openbox as a window manager. I will probably leave it on my flash drive and boot off of it on occasion just to see if I can get used to the way it works.
ArchBang doesn’t have as many applications installed as I would like but there are instructions on how to install them included on the disk. It has only one application listed under productivity. It is a text editor called Zathura. I am finding that I would choose vastly different things to install from what is usually included by default in most distros. I might have to do a scratch install of Arch just so I can select the applications which I like without having to weed out the ones I don’t.
I am going to list out some of the applications which I would choose.
Google Chome, LibreOffice writer, Audacious, Audacity, Thunderbird, The Gimp, and VLC .
Those are the main applications that I use on a daily basis. I could substitute abiword for LibreOffice Writer I guess. It would reduce some of the dependencies. I am still not sure what I would use as a window manager. I guess Lxde would work. That is what I am using right now on my Lubuntu install and it works ok for the most part.
