When comparing Openbox vs Deepin DE, the Slant community recommends Deepin DE for most people. In the question“What are the best desktop environments for Arch Linux?” Deepin DE is ranked 6th while Openbox is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose Deepin DE is:
Deepin DE has some blur designs which make it very beautiful.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Extremely lightweight
Openbox is a lightweight window manager that uses a little over 100MB RAM upon boot.
Pro Stable
Openbox is used as a default window manager in few desktop environments so it offers more testing, more bugfixes, and more stable behavior.
Pro Highly configurable with a moderate learning curve
Configuring Openbox is very easy to carry out, simply by editing its few config files. There are programs that allow for an even easier means of editing these files by doing so in a UI.
Pro Uncluttered
Openbox does away with many traditional desktop elements, like menu buttons, bars, etc. and places everything in the (insanely customizable) context menu. If any of the missing pieces are desired, they can be added through others apps (e.g. tint2 for taskbar).
Pro Defaults easy to quickstart
Openbox's set of defaults are easily editable to the user's liking.
Pro Very well documented
Due to wide use and a long history, there is a lot of documentation available on the use and customization of Openbox.
Pro Very beautiful
Deepin DE has some blur designs which make it very beautiful.
Pro Easy to use
Deepin DE is very simple.
Pro Stable
Pro Includes quality programs
It has some of it's own programs which are quite beautiful.
Pro A modern de for Linux
Deepin is the first DE for Linux which looks and acts like a modern environment. Basically, Deepin succede where Gnome 3 failed
Pro Quite lightweight
Deepin 15.7 has been optimized and now uses less than half the system resources of prior editions.
Pro Has a Windows-like and Mac-like interface
Easily switchable between the two, as well!
Pro Available for a lot of distros
Deepin DE is currently supported on Deepin OS, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Arch Linux, Gentoo, Fedora, Sparky Linux, Puppy Linux, Pardus, Antergos and Manjaro.
Pro Touchscreen-friendly
Pro Option to turn off mouse acceleration in the settings
Cons
Con Dead
Last release was in 2015.
Con No support for HiDPI
There's no support for HiDPI, and requests have been rejected. Current workaround is use some of few HiDPI themes.
Con Default configuration is lacking basic features
When booting Openbox for the first time, the user won't even know they have actually booted into a window manager as there will be nothing of note on the screen other than a right mouse action.
Con Unfamiliar configuration method
Beginners can be daunted by the configuration as it is just a couple of text files, which is unlike the graphical methods to customize environments they have experienced.
Con Not very customizable
Con Bling Bling instead of features
Con Great DE, horrible distro
The Deepin linux distro offers its own empty package manager, and has lots of bugs. The DE and core apps are great though.
Con Buggy
Many features do not immediately work.
Con Not installable on Ubuntu/Debian
[UPDATE: Check out UbuntuDDE, a project trying to get DDE on Ubuntu and usable to normies like you]
At least, not easily, and not without potential problems. If you Want Deepin DE, use Deepin Linux, or grab Manjaro's DDE spin, or install manually on Arch Linux. Antergos, ArchLabs or similar.
Con Poor translations
Con Goes contrary to the concept of customizability
If you want non-configurability, go back to windows or mac. This is a step back for Linux.