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As long as it is available in Debian, I say there is no harm in keeping it in PI

Not to be taken seriously, but I couldn't stop laughing, especially the last line.
This is from DistroWatch Review comments


Used to be a great distro but on the last releases has shown a lack of polish and care that, in my honest opinion, makes it unreliable.

It uses sysvinit, which seems ok ...

bittin wrote: Sun May 18, 2025 8:26 am Hey!

Any reason you are jumping from 23 to 25 for the new version and skipping 24?

It's 2025 and MX follows the year of release (except point releases).

A frugal install is similar to a live USB, but running from your disk, which will be faster than from a pendrive.

Frugal install will be the closest to loading to ram - check out Puppy Linux, you can make your own system, & 'squash' it up, to make a new version.

https://forum.puppylinux.com ...

Use this instead

https://robin-antix.codeberg.page/antiX-FAQ/antiX23/

But how do I add 3rd party repos like Ubuntu ppa?

antiX init diversity ships with several inits on one iso.
The guy who built it also produced one for MX - https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic ... ty-respin/

Could you also check RAM usage compared to the older (present) version.
If I remember correctly, there is a significant difference ie new yad uses more RAM

Try adding load=all at the live boot menu.
Seems like there might be a missing module in the live init.gz

rokytnji.1 is using antiX, which ships with the old series roxterm gtk2/3