Is OpenBox lighter than Xfce? Just curious. I guess I could install it on a persistent live USB to see if I like it?
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Openbox isn't a whole desktop environment, like xfce, but just a window manager, like xfce's xfwm. So yes it is way lighter but mostly because it doesn't have the same feature set. You can even run xfce on openbox. If you'd like a customized setup you could look into it. (e.g. use an lxde install to see what they did)
thanks. your explanation seems like the best one so far. ...even better than their website