The developers have also gone the extra mile and ensured that some of their custom tools are completely usable from the keyboard. Instead you get their keyboard-friendly alternatives such as the Wordgrinder word processor, the Vimprobable2 web browser, together with the MCabber Jabber client, IRSSI IRC client, Alpine for email and such. So there’s no LibreOffice, AbiWord, Firefox. Which is why they have carefully included only those apps that can be operated without the mouse. According to Salix developers, the aim of the Salix Ratpoison edition is to create a system that is fully usable with the keyboard only. Ratpoison is a tiling window manager that’s designed to be operated solely from the keyboard. After releasing versions for KDE and Xfce, Salix recently put out it’s latest 14.0.1 release with the Ratpoison desktop. Salix is available in six different editions, based around the KDE, Xfce, Mate, LXDE, Fluxbox and Ratpoison desktops. In fact, the distro is chock-full of custom tools developed in-house. Salix doesn’t include any codecs, but it does have a one-click codec installer. It includes a detailed guide, and there’s lots of additional task-based documentation on the distro’s website. No wonder then, the distro is very fast and easy to use.
They prune the list of apps that make up a release to make sure they aren’t packing in multiple apps for the same job.
The developers of Salix OS think of the distro a bonsai: small, light and a product of infinite care. If you haven’t heard of it before, think of Salix OS as Slackware with the convenience of a package manager.
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