MX-14 Review

[lucky9]

Personally I think that MX14 is too good for that reviewer. Prejudices are difficult things to get a hold of. That reviewer just needs to meditate.

[richb]

Personally I think that MX14 is too good for that reviewer. Prejudices are difficult things to get a hold of. That reviewer just needs to meditate.

The qup comment was the only valid thing he said. Either he is lying about the crashes or it crashes for him. I will comment no more on Qupzilla. Just thinking of future releases.

Nor am I criticizing the decision to use it in the first release.

[Richard]

There's always IceWeasel.
It seems to be about 23 MB downloading now.

Going to try it awhile.
It should not have flash issues? Does it?

Nope, doesn't seem to. Youtube is good.

[uncle mark]

That reviewer just needs to meditate.

You mis-spelled medicate.

[lucky9]

I suspected that medication was involved. Might even be legally acquired.

[BitJam]

I think ad hominem attacks against the reviewer are inappropriate. A user from the antiX forums asked him to review MX-14. He complied and I think he reviewed it honestly. It's just not the kind of distro he likes.

There will be good reviews and there will be bad reviews. By attacking the writers of bad reviews, all we really do is make ourselves look bad and make it less likely that others will even bother to give us reviews in the future. I think MX-14 is a great distro but we need to accept the fact that is is not everyone's cup of tea.

It's unfortunate that Qupzilla performed so poorly on the reviewer's system but them's the breaks. Even if everything functioned perfectly I don't think he would have given it a really positive review. That's not because he is dishonest or a bad person. It is because he prefers a different kind of distro. There is nothing wrong with that.

[richb]

@Bitjam,

Agree totally. I was trying to frame a response to the attacks, but you did it better than I could.

[Stevo]

At least he's consistent. He likes the bling. Maybe we could use a different theme than Raleigh in the future, which just reminds me too much of Windows 2000, too.

The thing that would really rankle would be getting an inconsistent review.

I've been testing slimboat (hint: run slimboat.sh), and it is very fast and full of features (except spellcheck), but crashes constantly, due to some conflict between its own QT 4.8.2 and our 4.8.4. It's also closed source, so we can't try and rebuild it against our own QT 4.

[Richard]

I saw somewhere a reference to MX-15?
but don't remember where.
Consider IceWeasel as a default browser.
It is now based on the ESR version from Mozilla.

What is the size difference between IceWeasel ESR and Firefox latest?
Would that keep it under the size limit
and eliminate the flash problem with qupzilla?

[BitJam]

I saw somewhere a reference to MX-15?

Maybe you were thinking of the rocket powered X-15 rocket-plane (video).

Or the marionette powered Fireball XL5 space ship (video).

edit: added video links