MX-14 Review

[zarg2]

true but it is more "visibility".

[Jerry3904]

Sure, but the question was whether there were any other reviews.

[lucky9]

I have to say that the total lack of consideration of stated objective is, shall I say disappointing. But at least he states that is totally not a consideration.
The fact that there is no room for anything except a royal flush-type distro is simply a choice. Not one that most of us find useful.

[jdmeaux1952]

That seemed to me to fall below your usual level of quality analysis that has kept me reading your stuff for quite a while. Luckily it did not appear to affect the 16,000 downloads during the first month after release...

LOL! You sound like my wife. She can tell people to go to hell and have them thank her for it... until they realize after the fact that was actually what she did.

Or like mine (who works in a drug store), and suggests Fiber Therapy.

[asqwerth]

If his sole consideration is how the user feels about the distro, then IMO, stated objectives are relevant because it affects the expectations of the user.

But in any case, I've read other distro reviews of his, and he tends to want his distro to be already eye-candified from OOTB, and he always approaches installation and usage of a distro as if the user were a total uninitiated newbie who would not bother or know to get help (from the forum or Internet searches) .

Using those criteria, I could have told you how his review of MX would go before reading it.

[arjaybe]

Response from Dedo:

Thanks for the comments.

But the thing is, the mission statement is not important. If you said, MX-14 was designed to be heavyweight, then it would sound even better. And if you said it was a distro for advanced users, then it would be even more amazing still.

The only thing is the user - how they feel when using. And that's it.

You can take my review as criticism and reject it, or you can take it as friendly feedback - which it is - and build upon it. I hope it's the latter.

Cheers,
Igor

I am glad he read it.

What a cheesy reply. If he was reviewing a short story, he'd criticize it for not being a novel. What he's saying is that the intended purpose isn't important, only his disappointed expectations. I'd call him an amateur, but that would insult amateurs.

[uncle mark]

I'd call him an amateur, but that would insult amateurs.

The bar to entry as a Linux reviewer on the Internet is pretty low.

[malspa]

Well, the guy wrote about it as he saw it. Good or bad, we want people to review the release, right? Looks like only two people have been interested enough to do that. And it looks like antiX's DistroWatch page hit ranking has been falling like a rock. Maybe look at the reasons for those things.

If I have a gripe with Dedoimedo's review, it's that he didn't write much about all of the tools/utilities that MX-14 comes with. That's one of its strong points, for me, along with the fact that it's Debian, that the Debian repos are available. He didn't find much that didn't work; the things he found problems with (Qupzilla, printing over Samba, the Fn keys) don't concern me (well, maybe the Fn keys, but I don't know how much of an issue that is), so the review wouldn't have made me decide not to try MX-14. The default appearances, QupZilla, I didn't care much for those, either, but I'd just install a different web browser and tweak the desktop, problems solved.

[NGIB]

I just don't understand why folks think an OS needs to have flash, bells and whistles. If I want to watch a cartoon, I'll watch a cartoon and when I boot my computer it's because I want to run an application not because I want to marvel at how pretty my OS is. If the end user wants KDE, Compiz, and all manner of flashy stuff - they can install it...

[karieho]

I started using Linux in 1996 with Red Hat 5.2. Since then, I have used many distros for example Caldera, Mandrake, Suse, Fedora,
Mandriva, Mepis, PClinuxOs, Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Knoppix, Rosa, SolydXK, Netrunner etc.

For some reason, I moved up to the second disro. For example Mandrake destroyed my cd-burner, Opensuse deletes my photos (Digikam 3.0 bug) or
then I just didn't like them.

"The latest offering of Mandrake's distribution, 9.2, has been found to not only be incompatible with some LG CD-ROM drives, but to
destroy them during the installation process. Mandrake have posted information on their errata page and further information can be found
on this thread."

This is how I first chose to use Mepis and now MX-14. Maybe they do not look as pretty as some other distros, but at least I can
focus on to do the job. As Blogspot says "I rate MX-14 as one of the most functional XFCE 4 distros I have used. It is fast, stable and efficient."
For me and my wife it is best distro. It just works! Perhaps it is best not to wait for new reviews (or ignore what Dedo says) and focus only on to use it.