First off, Fluxbox is one of many Desktop Environments for Linux. A Desktop Environment is a piece of software that manages the windows on your desktop, maybe has a bar (called a slit in fluxbox) with open applications, and probably gives you a way to launch applications. Fluxbox is just about the smallest, fastest, and lightest (a word that encompasses both smallest and fastest) desktop environment out there. In fact, it probably can’t even really be called a Desktop Environment. It comes with no file manager, displays no icons on the desktop. The only visible signs that you even have desktop environment running when you start it is a small bar at the bottom of the screen with the windows that you have open, a clock, and which workspace your currently in. The efficiency of Fluxbox is amazing. When using it to access a sort of start menu with all your applications you right click on the desktop, and it pops up next to your cursor. I have Fluxbox (or Flux as it’s affectionately known) setup with two applications at the top of this menu. ATerm, and Firefox. ATerm being a terminal emulator, so I can have a terminal window. They are pretty much all I use. If I need another application open, I run it from a terminal. If I need to access files, I access them with terminal. I am very close to being command line only, but I have a graphical browser (a must) and I have easy copy and paste between terminal windows. And of course I use the Fluxbox theme that makes all the window headers and text the smallest, so I can have as much window real estate as possible. Since Fluxbox is so small everything is instantaneous and I can work really efficiently. I love Flux.