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I used openbox for a few years, and yes I guess you could say that.
BTW, what is the purpose of this distribution you plan to create?
If you tell people what it is for, they are more likely to be able to give you useful feedback.
"Distribution" derives from the verb "to distribute," so the question to ask yourself is: "what window manager is desired by the users to whom I plan to distribute?"
If the answer is irrelevant (i.e. users choose your distro unique for reasons having nothing to do with its look & feel) then my advice is to go with something popular and well-known like Xfce.
Will they be doing their own admin or will they just be users on a system maintained by somebody else? If they're just users and somebody else will be admin, I find just about any WM/DE to be easy enough to pick up and use. Even my girlfriend who is pretty much useless at computers was able to use XFCE without a problem.
Last edited by suicidaleggroll; 09-09-2012 at 09:29 PM.
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