What makes MX better than Debian?

[radonrose]

For me, it's the ease with which I can:
1. Install and update stuff from the test repo.
2. Create a live snapshot.

I would like to say one thing or two that make Debian "better" than MX, but I have barely used Debian. My biggest trouble with MX at the time is combining DE's and WM's, but it's nothing a bit of experimenting won't solve (especially since MX 21 will possibly be out in a few weeks and I'll make a clean install).

[thinkpadx]

seriously, great devs and great forum

[Adrian]

and all this time i thought it was butter.

Can't believe it's butter!

[oops]

... Great Debian base, great OS, great devs and great forum ... it's enough to have the success.

[asqwerth]

MX is better for the following reasons: easy to install, semi rolling release, some software is newer, larger repositories with more software, tools and tweaks that makes it easy, no systemD, and not locked out of non free or open source software.

systemd is installed but boot defaults to SysV unless you go to advanced options from the boot screen.

Wrong! SystemD is disabled by default.

Disabled does not mean it's not installed. One does not preclude the other.

And mx isn't semi-rolling. It's a fixed release distro just like the corresponding Debian stable release, its base distro. Having a potential upgrade path (for mx21} which requires changing repo sources, means it's not rolling. If it rolled everything to a new base without changing repos then it would be rolling (eg arch) or semi-rolling (pclinuxos).

Not to say upgrading mx to a new base is difficult; it isn't due to the ability to preserve /home when you install the new mx afresh over your old root partition , but I like to be accurate in descriptions and it isn't rolling.

[AVLinux]

Ugh... the world of 'better' where it doesn't belong at all, like is this music 'better' than that music...

It's a little cheeky to call MX (or Ubuntu or Mint) 'better' than Debian, Debian is the wellspring from which all of this goodness comes, it is the parent.. Under normal circumstances is a child 'better' than it's parent or just able to focus and excel at different individual things thanks to the underlying support of the parent..?

MX is a well-informed User-driven layer of common-sense convenience applied to Debian by a great unified and tireless team of people with a common goal, that's how I see it anyway..

[Bonzoo2525]

TOOLS.

[figueroa]

MX comes as a complete package as a Desktop operating system. Debian is for those wanting to collect the pieces themselves. AND tools.

[asqwerth]

Yep, if you like that commonsense layer, as @AVLinux calls it, choose mx.

If you want to do it all yourself, choose Debian. You might consider all the mx layers bloat.

[entropyfoe]

I think figueroa hit it.

Debian is a universal operating system, a do-it-yourself kit you can assemble into just about anything.
Many people (like me) don't have the time and expertise to configure it all to the level that the MX developers and community have.

MX gives a wonderful sensible set of defaults and tools.
The community on this forum and the active collaboration of the developers sets MX above many other distros.
Based on Debian stable , it is rock solid. But you have all the updated packages on top of that.