Your android tools look to be available in the wheezy-backports repo. Java 7 is available in the plain repos. I don't know anything about Sublime or xcode, sorry.

You can search for packages using this website: https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages

Or you can search from the command line using: apt-cache search (package you want)

I can't say that I do. Have you tried different settings for VLC? You can change how it is processing the video and sometimes get better performance. Possible Fix the link shows for Windows, but those settings apply in Linux as well. I haven't dove too much into the VLC settings though. That about exhausts my knowledge of them. There are a ton of different combinations.

I used the dd command in linux terminal and worked like a charm. http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=23267

If you're using windows, I've always had UUI work really well for me. http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/

Definitely look elsewhere. I loved #! but it won't receive further security updates and the #!-specific repos will not work.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest you look at Peppermint OS for your netbook. It's based on Lubuntu (LXDE desktop) and is cloud-focused, but not exclusively so. Runs well on light resources, but full-featured. Unless it's a priority for you to use a pure Debian base, it's a good alternative to an Xfce desktop.

I really like Crunchbang when it was around. But, what is Crunchbang? To me it's just Openbox, conky, tint2 and using a Dark Theme on top of Debian. So we all can make our own Crunchbang distro. Or at least mimic Crunchbang in many ways.

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=crunchbang&pkglist=true&version=11#pkglist

Crunchbang++ vs BunsenLabs - try both in a live session see which one you like, better. I haven't try out either one. I'm just glad Crunchbang haven't when up in smoke completely. Even if it did. I would less make my own mimic version of Crunchbang to bring it back to life. And that's what Crunchbang++ and BunsenLabs is doing. Even if both are as equal to the true spirit of Crunchbang. They both would be welcome to the Linux community.

> Should I update or edit my sources.list file?

You don't have to. The !# repo is still up.

> Jessie is considered SAFE for everyday use, right?

Generally, yes. However, Jessie is still considered testing. If you want more stability and more timely security updates use Wheezy (stable). More on that here.

Might be possible using xdotool or maybe tint2 also provides some way.

You should try asking either in the crunchbang forums or in the arch or gentoo forums.

Also, to get an overview for configuration, the support for the RV620 chipset in the radeon driver which you use currently is not that bad. Here is the overview of the supported features.

If you enable KMS and direct rendering there is quite a chance that you achieve better performance in 2D than using the proprietary drivers.

You can also use the sgfxi installation script with the option -n at lauch to update it to the latest revision. It should also fetch the latest libmesa. And configure your xorg.conf accordingly.

Chromixium is based on a custom Ubuntu 14.04.1 build, not Debian.
IMHO only 2 OS are worthy as a #! successor ("official" or not):
Either #!++ or BunsenLabs
Both based on Debian Jessie + Openbox + Scripts.
And they have the original #!-Feeling. It's a matter of taste, which of them you'll give a try.

You can install refind manually on linux using these directions on refind's website. I haven't done it before myself (always just used the installer script). But, it seems straightforward enough:

1) move refind files into /boot/efi/EFI/refind

2) delete stuff that isn't your architecture

3) copy/customize the configuration file

4) say the magic word to add refind to your system's available bootloaders.

5) adjust boot order (if necessary)

Edit: spacing on list

I finally found this:

https://wiki.debian.org/Apt

> "If you can’t find a package, you can look for it in apt-get.org, where you can find the line you need to add to your SourcesList to add the repository with the desired package."

Exactly what I was looking for!

Except for apt-get.org doesn't seem to exist as far as I can tell... Nor is there even any mention of it anywhere on google, except one post from some skin website where a guy asks if it's down, and the only response is someone saying 'there's already another post about this'.

???

> NOTE (2014 Feb 5): The kernel version may matter in whether this script works or not (particularly the part that applies Benson Leung's patches). Benson Leung has sent his patches upstream so hopefully with newer versions of the kernel, this manual patching will no longer be needed. As outlined by user jonwalch, one fix is to modify the Grab Ubuntu kernel source portion of the script to:

Grab Ubuntu kernel source

wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.12.5.tar.xz tar -xJf linux-3.12.5.tar.xz cd linux-3.12.5

I believe you need to find the correct patch for your kernel.

Fixed it by replacing one portion of the script "

Grab Ubuntu kernel source

wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.12.5.tar.xz tar -xJf linux-3.12.5.tar.xz cd linux-3.12.5 "

I guess my point is I just don't understand repos incredibly well. I just want apt to find anything I could conceivably search for, and don't know how to make that happen. Is there just some master list I can copy into some doc in /etc that will make it so that I can download anything that can be found?

I figured out that Xcode is nil (I was just following instructions written for mac that said to download that, later realized it is something only useful to macs). Is Sublime available in some restricted, non-open source repos? I installed it myself, but I have to go to the folder itself to run the program; I don't know where I 'should' have 'installed' it, nor how to make it possible to start by just typing 'sublime_text' into the terminal anywhere.

I also can't figure out for the life of me how to get flash working in chrome, which is annoying as fuck. I hate firefox. :\

I don't understand how to use https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages, but I can't find what I'm looking for there...

And apt-cache search doesn't turn anything up for, for instance, android-tools (you mentioned they were in wheezy backports; what are 'backports'? Should I find some link somewhere to copy into some file in etc to make it so my apt can find programs available there?), or xflux (f.lux), which I instead downloaded from their website, and unpacked the tarball, but am left with an executable that I don't know how to deal with (I think it will be the same as sublime and that I'll have to run chmod something-or-another on it and then have to start it by hand in the directory again).

I hate sucking at things.

Hard to guess on that. If you are really curious, I would suggest checking the logs.. Or trying to find them. I haven't every looked it up, but something like "sudo nano /var/log/apt/history.log" might get you on the right path.
I just ran that on my computer, and it is not very detailed.. Might have to look for a different method.

My /var/log/apt/history.log looks like: >Start-Date: 2014-07-01 10:34:33 Commandline: apt-get upgrade Upgrade: libsmbclient:amd64 (3.6.6-6+deb7u2, 3.6.6-6+deb7u4), libdpkg-perl:amd64 (1.16.12, 1.16.15), libswscale2:amd64 (0.8.10-1, 0.8.12-1), base-files:amd64 (7.1wheezy4, 7.1wheezy5), gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad:amd64 (0.10.23-7.1, 0.10.23-$ End-Date: 2014-07-01 10:37:21

>Start-Date: 2014-07-02 08:08:50 Commandline: apt-get remove spotify-client Remove: spotify-client:amd64 (0.9.10.17.g4129e1c.78-1) End-Date: 2014-07-02 08:09:03

>Start-Date: 2014-07-02 08:47:07 Commandline: apt-get install gtk2-engines-pixbuf Install: gtk2-engines-pixbuf:amd64 (2.24.10-2) End-Date: 2014-07-02 08:47:09

>Start-Date: 2014-07-22 19:18:55 Commandline: apt-get install mutt Install: libtokyocabinet9:amd64 (1.4.47-2, automatic), mutt:amd64 (1.5.21-6.2+deb7u2) End-Date: 2014-07-22 19:19:11

You're probably not checking this anymore, but try using VirtualBox. You can basically run #! in Windows, and all without hassle. #! will get its own virtual hard drive and everything.

Trust me, I tried everything to run Linux from a USB that I nearly broke my computer, and when I finally got it to run, it had been almost a week (I am a total linux/OS noob). Conversely, I got it to install in VB in a few minutes. It's the next best thing to actually having it installed!

(Note: I'm not very good at explaining things, but VirtualBox is seriously ballin'. Plus, a year ago I was in the exact same situation you're in right now.)