Distrowatch review grumbles

[genericmeatsack]

I find it interesting that most of the negative reviews on Distrowatch are from people with no previous history of ranking distros...hmmmmmm.

[turtlebay777]

So you are saying you have to be an expert before making a negative comment?

[genericmeatsack]

No. I'm saying that the negative reviews of MX might be B.S. attacks by fanbois of other linux distros.

[turtlebay777]

Version: 19
Rating: 1
Date: 2019-11-05
Votes: 0

Could not install. Got to a certain point in the install and the screen started blinking. Went out and came back in to try install again and the same blinking problem. I never had an install problem with either Ver. 17 or 18. This is a new bug. I am also running Debian 10, MX Linux 18.3 and Mint 19 on the same Lenovo T420. All installed and run perfectly. Ver. 19 is NOT ready for prime time until the installer is debugged.

As a longer term user of MX I too have had a lot of trouble installing MX 19 and even just making a persistence USB version failed so many times I got fed up and put 18.3 back on the USB stick! Solution - what solution !

[asqwerth]

There are certainly legitimate critical reviews in there. I'm almost sure it's usually a hardware issue. CPU? Nvidia card? That's always a big problem. Installer? Possibly it's linked to how it interprets or detects certain device setups.

Unfortunately since most don't post their specs, one can only guess.

On the other hand, it is also true some negative reviews look suspicious. The one turtlebay posted looks legit. The one in the previous post? Not enough information. But perhaps a bit of jumping the gun. Or outright questionable.

[turtlebay777]

Mine was /is legit and I haven't got a Nvidia anything.

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System:    Host: mx Kernel: 4.15.0-1-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 Distro: MX-18.3_x64 Continuum March 14  2018 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 
Machine:   Type: Portable System: Dell product: Inspiron 1545 v: N/A serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Dell model: 0G848F serial: <filter> BIOS: Dell v: A14 date: 12/07/2009 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 48.8 Wh condition: 48.6/48.8 Wh (99%) model: Samsung SDI DELL 00 
           status: Full 
CPU:       Topology: Single Core model: Intel Celeron 900 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Penryn rev: A 
           L2 cache: 1024 KiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 bogomips: 4388 
           Speed: 2194 MHz min/max: 1200/2200 MHz Core speed (MHz): 1: 2194 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Mobile 4 Series Integrated Graphics vendor: Dell driver: i915 
           v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: intel resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel GM45 Express v: 2.1 Mesa 18.2.6 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 82801I HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:1b.0 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.0-1-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Marvell 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet vendor: Dell driver: sky2 v: 1.30 
           port: de00 bus ID: 09:00.0 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Broadcom Limited BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY 
           vendor: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card driver: wl v: kernel port: de00 
           bus ID: 0c:00.0 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 232.89 GiB used: 52.53 GiB (22.6%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST9250315AS size: 232.89 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 65.38 GiB used: 52.53 GiB (80.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 3.66 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda6 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 51.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 3000 
Repos:     Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
           1: deb https://mirrors.evowise.com/mxlinux-packages/antix/stretch/ stretch main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.ticklers.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.ticklers.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-earth-pro.list 
           1: deb http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb/ stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:hawkeye116477:waterfox.list 
           1: deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/hawkeye116477:/waterfox/xUbuntu_16.04/ /
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb https://mirrors.evowise.com/mxlinux-packages/mx/repo/ stretch main non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/waterfox.list 
Info:      Processes: 160 Uptime: 28m Memory: 2.90 GiB used: 753.1 MiB (25.4%) Init: systemd 
           runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 inxi: 3.0.36 

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[Stevo]

Version: 19
Rating: 1
Date: 2019-12-01
Votes: 0


That's the only distribution I'm unable to install on Laptop with Ryzen 5.

Apparently they never tried Debian or any other Buster-based, or Ubuntu 18.04 based distro, then? Because they sure don't work with freshly released hardware either. What a maroon! Thou surly motley-minded pignut!

[Huckleberry Finn]

Version: 19
Rating: 1
Date: 2019-12-19
Votes: 0

Disgusting installer.
Does not recognize pre-created logical volumes.
Impossible to install on lvs,even if you install lvm2 in your live cd....
Only work around:Install on regular patitions and then rsync them into lvs....
Too much of a hassle though....
Was excited I was getting a sleek fast non-systemd debian alas the installer... SUCKS!!!!
Big disappointment...
Does it even install on uefi???
I dont trust it...
Maybe it will mess with my efi partition.

I guess it belongs to here: viewtopic.php?f=108&t=54919

You see during installation I wanted to install MX on my pre-created logical volumes.
...
the installer would offer to install on /dev/sdxx and not in /dev/vg/lv..
Although I had in fact installed lvm2 in the livecd...

What a hurry !

[dolphin_oracle]

well, he's not *entirely* wrong. we've discussed installing onto lvm but its not supported yet.

[Huckleberry Finn]

Yes but:

Disgusting,
Big disappointment...
Does it even install on uefi???
I dont trust it...
Maybe it will mess with my efi partition.

He does that comment yesterday and signs in and asks for help today...