Im thinking about switching from E 16 to BB since i find E buggy and sometimes slow, and it has a lot of eyecandy that i liked before, but i just have a need to change to something simpler now, and BlackBox looks good, at least until E 17 comes out.
I would just like some oppinions about BB and E to help me decide which to use.
And is someone using E 17 (CVS only) or someone knows anything about it?
Thank you very much in advance, although i'm aware this is kind of question that i shouldn't ask because there is not really an answer, i would like some oppinions.
Thanks again!
-NSKL

BB anyday of the week. e16 always made me feel ill, and e17 seems to be the exact opposite of e16 and still as unattractive in most ways, IMHO. blackbox is cool. more solidly built than fluxbox, without the irrelevant gimmicks.

My first linux install was on a slow laptop with litle resources,
so i need a wm with minimal resources requirements and, because i don't have much patience, it need to be very fast.

So my first wm was Windowmaker, it's good, but the dockapps tiles take much space on the little screen of the laptop. So i try blackbox, and i'm very happy with it. Since then i use bb in all my comps.

I like the slit, it let me attach applications as gkrellm and bbkeys,
and with the Auto Hide option i have more screen available.

With the center or right button of the mouse (or with the keyboard and bbkeys) i can access a menu that let me launch applications, select styles,change workspaces or configure the handling of the windows. To add-remove applications from the menu only need to edit a text file.

My last comp have a celeron 1Ghz with 128 MB, i log in a console and start Xwindow with startx. The loading of bb took less than 3 sec.

Blackbox don't have anything fancy or elaborated, but it's fast,
easy to install and use, and coupled with gkrellm and bbkeys
its all that i need.

I've used all of them in a spare time - K, G, E, AfterStep, BB, WM (don't like huge obsticles on my desktop), Xfce, IceWM, twm (on my univesity UNIX terminals - yack, ewww) my final destination is fluxbox - simply da best along with BB

i like da BLACK-box because uh da name...

nuf said foo...

Ok so be it, I'm switching to BB, until (if ever) i find some fault with it.
Thanks guys!
-NSKL