MX NOT Living Up To The Hype

[wptophat]

SO MX is not living up to the hype! Some of the claims I have heard that got me to make the switch:

"It just works"
"THe community is amazing"
"Its easy to inatall"

I have found none of these to be true so far.

I have hardly gotten any response to my previous thread. One unhelpful reply.
Installing was NOT easy in comparison to Manjaro or Zorin.
And "It just works"? Humph! I have had nothing but problems since installing it!

There is the Pulse audio issue I talk about in my other thread.
The system will not logout, reboot, or shutdown. I click any of these options and the system just freezes up and sits there until I hold the power button in until it shuts down.
Firefox would not load until I removed and reinstalled it
My network card would not work at first until I reinstalled the network manager.

I have a Dell Inspiron Gaming 7576 with 24gb ram, a 128gb ssd and a 1tb HDD. Graphics are Nvidia geforce 1051ti/Intel HD 6230. The computer has run Manjaro, Zorin, and Mint with none of these issues.

I am going to give it one more day to change my mind, but then I am getting the hell off of MX.

[anticapitalista]

reinstall to a linux / and /home directory, not ntfs and see if it runs better ie do not keep your old /home, put /home in the / directory.

[Eadwine Rose]

Did you check the md5sum of the download, and of the installation media?


That not matching can cause weird things to happen.

[Stevo]

How does it run from the Live USB? Does it have the same problems there? If not, I would suspect the problems are due to you bringing over your Manjaro home folder on NTFS. Maybe you could set up a new MX home folder, and then bring over your settings from the old folder.

[wptophat]

Did you check the md5sum of the download, and of the installation media?


That not matching can cause weird things to happen.

Yes I did, and it matched.

[wptophat]

How does it run from the Live USB? Does it have the same problems there? If not, I would suspect the problems are due to you bringing over your Manjaro home folder on NTFS. Maybe you could set up a new MX home folder, and then bring over your settings from the old folder.

Yes, admittedly runs perfect on USB live.

But I use this Home folder as NTFS so I can access everything easily on Windows and Linux both, without having to jump through a ton of hoops to set things up and keep them synced. Having a second home folder just complicates things. The point is that other Linux OS's can work with this setup just fine. Why does MX have the issue?

[wptophat]

I just do not think MX is ready yet. It has potential and has some awesome tools. And I am certain that I could resolve all of the issues I am having IF I wanted to spend hours, or even days researching and trying to fix them.

But why would I want to do that when there are other options that truly do work right out of the box with my partition configuration and hardware?

I think this is probably a great distro for those that have pretty typical setups, like not sharing the home directory with multiple OS's via NTFS format. Apparently that is something that MX is not capabl of doing (at least not without a bunch of work).

I will definietely revisit this distro at a later date, but for now, I will go with something that just worls for me.

Thank you to those members of the community that did try to help!

[wptophat]

reinstall to a linux / and /home directory, not ntfs and see if it runs better ie do not keep your old /home, put /home in the / directory.

So just move 200+ gb of data? And give up the ability to easily access the directory from Windows?

Ummm....no thanks. I mean, Why? When this setup works for every other Linux Distro I have tried? MX is not good enough to through all that work if there are other options that DO work.

"A solution that is not really a solution is no solution at all" robert kiyosaki

[anticapitalista]

reinstall to a linux / and /home directory, not ntfs and see if it runs better ie do not keep your old /home, put /home in the / directory.

So just move 200+ gb of data? And give up the ability to easily access the directory from Windows?

Ummm....no thanks. I mean, Why? When this setup works for every other Linux Distro I have tried? MX is not good enough to through all that work if there are other options that DO work.

"A solution that is not really a solution is no solution at all" robert kiyosaki

The easiest way is to symlink your existing home to the one set up by MX Linux.
But you've already made your mind up that MX is not for you.
Bye

[Sparky]

Don 't feed the troll!
Being #1 has its costs, this is one of them.
Ignore him/her