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Thank you.....

I appreciate the clarifications......


Dave

@asqwerth,

Thank you. At one time I did have Debian testing on my production machine - and it was broken badly by an update. I then moved to Arch in 2004.

I don't use testing - except to get a particular newer package like CodeBlocks.... Way back when - I learned my lesson about using Debian ...

@asqwerth,

THANK YOU for this clarification. I had ASSumed that "Testing" was Debian Testing....

Your post is very good to know.

THANKS!

Dave

Thank you. I knew that from doing this to validate that the live USB boot allowed me to see my personal files for when I was on the road.....I just wanted to validate that it was suitable for a complete transplant from a smaller SSD to my main 1TB SSD.........

This distro is awesome. I appreciate ...

Thank you for the confirmation...I appreciate it!


Dave

Good Evening All,


I have had MX-Linux on a smaller drive to test it for the last two months. It's perfect for me.

Now - I want to transplant my entire install to another drive... (No I am not using systemd)

I just want to be damned sure about the process - before I hose my old Artix Linux ...

I want to thank everyone for their responses. I do appreciate it.

It has been my experience over the years that XFCE is fine - as long as you don't start to tweak things like colors in themes - or the menus. Same experience again this time. I can duplicate my issues with XFCE in VirtualBox, both ...

So I reset the menus by using the MX Tweak tool and restoring the panel. The default MX menu came back. All of it.

For the record: MX 18.2 fresh install. x86_64. Default kernel. I haven't put my custom kernel under the hood yet until I iron out my issues with XFCE. So it's a default install where ...

Good Evening All,

I have been using Mate, but am giving XFCE a try.
I am absolutely frustrated with XFCE's wonky and cumbersome menu entries. Under Mate - it was so much easier.

The menu changes I make with the default editor, or menulibre, or alacarte don't stick. In fact they are invisible. Any ...