Mabox Linux

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Mabox is a Manjaro based, desktop Linux distribution. The project ships with Openbox as the default desktop with pinch of customistations and home-brewed tools, like improved menu, side-panels and Mabox Control Center.
Works great even on weaker computers.

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Easy installation
Lightweight
Highly Configurable
Power and Flexibility of Manjaro Linux
Preconfigured, ready to use Openbox

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willy-mckay Posted 2026-03-06

Concretamente : Hasta donde lo he llegado a probar, Mabox es "muy de mi agrado", por la amplia personalizacion, presentacion visual, gran agilidad, e indudable estabilidad. ☆Observaciones Constructivas: 1- Algunos recien llegados de Windows lo ven atractivo por su interfaz, pero opinan que le faltaria ser un poco más "amigable." 2- Una pequeña falla, por no tener incluida la autoconfiguracion de Wi-Fi, que debi hacerla yo mismo por Linea de Comandos. (Para los iniciados, resulta en un impedimento fatal). ☆Felicitaciones por el gran trabajo demostrado en el desarrollo de este《sólido Sistema》. Respetuosos Saludos, Willy Mc Kay.
mikkhntl Posted 2025-01-14

Really nice lightweight version of Manjaro (therefore Arch BTW!) Boots very quickly off a USB stick, probably the fastest I've ever seen and I've seen a LOT over the last 20 years. The default desktop is a bit too busy for my liking but is easy to customise to your own taste and it didn't take too long to arrange the desktop as I prefer it with a bottom taskbar and single click to open things. Always did like the lighter window managers like JWM in Puppy Linux and this highly polished working of OpenBox is great with obviously a lot of time put into it - well done the people responsible. Found an interesting little utility in the system section called btop++ which shows CPU temperatures as well as the normal stats displayed by top or htop. Internet radio as an option on the speaker icon settings with access to some classic albums. That's a cute little feature I've never seen before. A definite contender for resurrecting older hardware where Antix Linux is usually my first choice, but now I have two ;o

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intfd Posted 2024-09-17

This should be how Manjaro comes default. For some reason openbox works so well for this distro, it's like it was designed for it. The Manjaro team has done a great job here - I tend to find distros that come with WMs to have overlapping applications for settings/themeing/configuration that can easily make a beginner user confused. This is far from the case with Mabox. My only worry is that it's more of a secondary distro and doesn't quite get the developer attention it deserves. If you're new to Window Managers, this is the distro for you.

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jakobuz Posted 2022-03-09

Linux user since 1996 (!). Using Mabox since 2001: awesome distro!

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xntrix Posted 2022-03-09

Been using Mabox for a while and found it stable and easy to use. A huge thanks to the Mabox team. Awesome job!

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