--- title: BunsenLabs Reviews meta_title: 'BunsenLabs Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 13 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how BunsenLabs works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.3 review_count: 13 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-09-22' parent_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # BunsenLabs Reviews **Vendor:** BunsenLabs Linux **Category:** [Operating Systems](https://www.g2.com/categories/operating-system) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 13 **AI Enabled:** This product embeds AI to enhance or extend its core functionality. ## About BunsenLabs BunsenLabs Linux is a distribution offering a light-weight and easily customizable Openbox desktop.The distribution consists of configuration and resource packages installed on top of Debian. ## BunsenLabs Reviews ### 1. Lightweight, Customizable, and Blazing Fast BunsenLabs Experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Venkat G. | Senior SDET Engineer, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** May 28, 2026 **What do you like best about BunsenLabs?** The feature that I enjoy the most with BunsenLabs is its lightweight and very customizable desktop environment that ensures outstanding speed even on less powerful computers. Its minimalist Openbox-based interface is fast, reliable, and does not distract from work, while its user-friendly default settings ensure a hassle-free experience. **What do you dislike about BunsenLabs?** Nothing to add this time from my side everything seems fine **What problems is BunsenLabs solving and how is that benefiting you?** The solution provided by BunsenLabs is a lightweight and fast Linux distribution that allows one to work even with low specification equipment. The system helps me save time during booting processes and reduces memory consumption while ensuring a clean and productive working environment. ### 2. Bring Your Old Computer Back to Life: An in-depth analysis of BunsenLabs Linux **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gajendra Singh R. | Manager IT, Computer & Network Security, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** May 24, 2024 **What do you like best about BunsenLabs?** The best thing about BunsenLabs, in my opinion, is its ability to provide a minimally-footprint desktop environment that is both very efficient and adaptable. The salient features are as follows:Lightweight Performance,Customizability,Stability and Reliability **What do you dislike about BunsenLabs?** Limited Graphical Configuration Tools & Basic Out-of-the-Box Experience **What problems is BunsenLabs solving and how is that benefiting you?** BunsenLabs tackles various typical issues encountered by consumers looking for a stable, lightweight, and adjustable Linux distribution. ### 3. Lightweight and Powerful Linux distro **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arnaldo Ariel A. | Linux Sysadmin, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2023 **What do you like best about BunsenLabs?** It provides a complete Linux distro using few system resources. Ideal for giving a new life to a not no new computer. **What do you dislike about BunsenLabs?** Nothing to dislike. It provides what it promises in an efficient and great way. **What problems is BunsenLabs solving and how is that benefiting you?** It lets me have a modern Linux distro on old hardware. ### 4. User friendly linux platform with modification and style **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zeshan Q. | GM Sales & Marketing, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2022 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about BunsenLabs?** user-friendly environment or platform consumes relatively significantly fewer resources and fast **What do you dislike about BunsenLabs?** It's the best platform for Linux users who entirely understand the utilities and philosophy. Minor hiccups while installation modem errors. **Recommendations to others considering BunsenLabs:** Apart from an excellent Linux platform and resolving many issues in the system by autodetecting and filling the system's gaps, it also helps in labs and other professional spaces. The elegant theme options make your Frontend look more professional. **What problems is BunsenLabs solving and how is that benefiting you?** There is no need to upgrade your pcs or system requirements hiccups. We have resolved missing files and scripts problems; additionally, the beautiful themes make it a more innovative option using the existing network and hardware. ### 5. Community continuation of crunchbang linux **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sitaram k. | Assistant Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2022 **What do you like best about BunsenLabs?** Bunsenlabs is based on Debian Stretch. It provides us with a preconfigured Openbox window manager with Tint2 panel, Conky system monitor. There is no limit to customization. We can easily change desktop configuration. **What do you dislike about BunsenLabs?** Its installation process is very long and not the easiest way to install. And multiple installations are required. I think it would work great for specific use cases, appliance or kiosk type work but for me and my desired workflow, it just doesn't meet the expectation. **What problems is BunsenLabs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Enterprise Linux distribution to empower the infrastructure of businesses. It's also a lightweight distribution. We can use old computers without facing any issues related to their configuration. ### 6. Best of the Best of Bunsen Labs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** LAV P. | Senior Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2022 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about BunsenLabs?** The information and the interface of this application is the best I have ever seen. It also gives you suggestions based on our previous searches, which is a good part of it. **What do you dislike about BunsenLabs?** The customer support system and the basic training on how to use this should be provided by Bunsen Labs. **What problems is BunsenLabs solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving the problem of time zone differences between us and our clients, which helps us reach them and try to get the maximum outcome possible while reducing costs. ### 7. Easy and user friendly distribution system. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ranjeet Singh R. | Senior Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** March 02, 2022 **What do you like best about BunsenLabs?** Its installation process is so easy and quick. **What do you dislike about BunsenLabs?** There's an absence of a rose-red theme, which can be helpful for lithium compounds. **What problems is BunsenLabs solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm using it for the whole bandwidth LaTeX, Gimp &other complicated technical works, and it works flawlessly. ### 8. Rebirth of CrunchBang **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2022 **What do you like best about BunsenLabs?** I liked the procedure for changing virtual desktops. The two elongated buttons that serve as the virtual workspace switcher are convenient. It has been developed for two desktops. One cannot add more. You click one or the other to change virtual workspaces. **What do you dislike about BunsenLabs?** The installation process could be simplified. We have to provide a lot of information during installation. They should make a system in which one can add usernames and passwords after installations. **What problems is BunsenLabs solving and how is that benefiting you?** BunsenLabs helps users to grow with it and explore linux. There is no limits in customization. One can play with settings and configurations and change things to their liking so as to achieve the desired final result and learn a lot in the process. ### 9. Bunsenlabs OS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Building Materials | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2022 **What do you like best about BunsenLabs?** Nice Debian distro, lightweight and all basic features covered. **What do you dislike about BunsenLabs?** Had some old legacy hardware where correct drivers were difficult to find and load. **Recommendations to others considering BunsenLabs:** Check compatibility of drivers for your hardware beforehand. **What problems is BunsenLabs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Good OS to use for out of support legacy machines. ### 10. Best OS for keyboard driven users **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2022 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about BunsenLabs?** Great for keyboard driven users and allows a solid base of packages. Lightweight and resource friendly Quick access to every aspect **What do you dislike about BunsenLabs?** Hard for installation. A lot of clicking is needed while the process is complete **What problems is BunsenLabs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being in a marketing organization, it is helpful to me for making customized attractive desktop ### 11. Fast, Configurable and good **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Games | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** February 19, 2022 **What do you like best about BunsenLabs?** I like new default themes, modality, and more flexibility **What do you dislike about BunsenLabs?** It can be a lighter version. It requires more RAM size **What problems is BunsenLabs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Bansenlabs themes are very attractive, and all looks of background changed beautifully in newer version. ### 12. Nice **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2021 **What do you like best about BunsenLabs?** distribution offering a lightweight and easily customizable Openbox desktop. **What do you dislike about BunsenLabs?** Less configurable items and less user-friendly interphase. **What problems is BunsenLabs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easily customizable Openbox desktop. ### 13. Bunsenlabs or Crunchbang - You decide ! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ananth G. | Assistant Professor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through Google using a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** May 02, 2019 **What do you like best about BunsenLabs?** Bunsenlabs is based on the Debian OS. Debian OS was once and even for today considered to many people including me as the Mother of OSes. Debian was founded by a person called Ian Murdock. The name Debian is formed from the combination of 2 words from Debra and Ian Murdock; where Debra was the girlfriend of Ian. Basically since Bunsenlabs is based out of Debian, it is free, open to use, an open software and licensed easily under a GPL. **What do you dislike about BunsenLabs?** Bunsenlabs comes by default out of OpenBox - a lightweight Desktop Environment. Not enough Linux users like OpenBox as it's not so familiar and common amongst Linux users, like as in Gnome or KDE. Though OpenBox is lightweight, it is sometimes memory consuming. **Recommendations to others considering BunsenLabs:** If you as a user want to try Bunsenlabs, one small recommendation from my side is to use it in Virtualbox first. If you like it, it could be deployed accordingly. **What problems is BunsenLabs solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have got Bunsenlabs installed via a Virtualbox software. I use Bunsenlabs to work on a few server-side applications. I have an open port that is linked to Bunsenlabs. ## BunsenLabs Discussions - [What is BunsenLabs used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-bunsenlabs-used-for) - [View BunsenLabs pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/bunsenlabs/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-10-03+16%3A58%3A42+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=f053014c-f6c2-4796-b817-ff3f79b848c3&secure%5Btoken%5D=803531352709e3165e043b3485c2e28c5b1b8c79e34ab66e9424f9e56edac623&format=llm_user) ## BunsenLabs Features **Memory Management - Operating System** - RAM management - App Management - File Management **Device Management - Operating System** - I/O management **Backup and Recovery - Operating System** - Data backup **Error Detection - Operating System** - System operations monitoring **Additional Functionality** - Generative AI - Data Security - User Interface - Resource Allocation - System Updates - For Developers - AI Copilot - Desktop Interface ## Top BunsenLabs Alternatives - [Chrome OS](https://www.g2.com/products/chrome-os/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (733 reviews) - [Red Hat Enterprise Linux](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-enterprise-linux/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (932 reviews) - [Windows 7](https://www.g2.com/products/windows-7/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (878 reviews)