Topic: Why do you use #!Crunchbang
I'm not sure if this is a stupid idea or a good one.
At any rate, after core's post, asking for feedback about the description, and various other posts in, for example, the introduction section, I thought it *might* be worthwhile.
So....why did you try #!Crunchbang? Why do you still use it? I guess I'll go first. 
I'm a FreeBSD lover at heart, but my current job revolves around CentOS servers, so I came back to the Linux world. I use Fedora as my main desktop, the logic being that fixing things that break on a desktop will help me when things don't go right with the servers.
Fedora is almost broken by design--that's an exaggeration, but as it's more or less a test bed for RedHat, regardless of what the official line is, they tend to put things in that don't work properly. In addition, they're heavily Gnome-centric, and many things will work out of the box in Gnome, but not with Fluxbox, Openbox or other lightweight window managers.
As many friends, as well as a few of my users, run Ubuntu, I usually try to more or less keep up with it as well, running it on a laptop as a secondary O/S. One thing I noticed was that when compared with Fedora, many things work much better. I suspect that this is partially due to the different goals--Ubuntu's stated number one bug is that Windows is more popular.
Although something like ArchLinux will always be one of my favorites, I find that in my old age, I get impatient having to configure sound, wireless, etc., and grow to appreciate the distros where it just works. It leaves me more time to do my work.
So, Crunchbang interested me when I read about it. Based on Ubuntu, which often just works, but without its bloat. Although I prefer Flux to Open, I like Openbox too. The Fluxbox-cum-Ubuntu based distros usually seem to be a bit behind whatever is current, which was one reason I never really settled on any of them.
So, I tried Crunchbang. After fixing my Openbox and panel to my liking, I changed my desktop to Fluxbox. (I just wanted to make sure I could still configure Openbox.) I've found that it gives me enough to do my work without getting in my way. I've frequently, on these forums, referred to it as an ArchLinux for busy people, and the more I use it, the more I like that expression, misleading though it is.
So, even though I change the desktop and basically waste all of corenominal's hard work on getting sane defaults for panels, menus and the like, it's almost like doing a command line Ubuntu install, then customizing it afterwards--however, without the time and effort spent in doing so. The basics have been done for me--sound, multimedia, X, plugins and the like. It gives me access to the Ubuntu repos, which are far more complete than Fedora's--just as an example, Xbuffy an XBiff-ish program that can watch multiple mailboxes, is available. It isn't in Fedora, and as it's a very old program, it's not even easy to build from source anymore.
So, #!Crunchbang gives me, with little effort, a nice base which doesn't complain if I customize it. (Unlike both Ubuntu and Fedora, both of which seem to fight you if you decide to not use Gnome.)
That might even be a slogan if it was polished up a bit. It gives you enough to let you do your work and doesn't give you so much that it gets in your way.
and off I went! But it just could not get me away from XP, due to the lack off photographical qualities in the software provided. Which is still an issue...
He's dying to take Windows off of our daughter's laptop but I keep telling him she needs it to be compatible for her school work. 
