Praise and recognition for MX Linux

[thoro]

Today starts a new era.

I just reconfigured my EFI Bios to boot MX Linux as primary linux in my multisystem setup (MX-21.2, OpenSuse LEAP, Kubuntu, LMDE, Linux Mint, Q4OS, SolydXK, KDE Neon and - sadly - Windows 10).

Before, this has always been OpenSuse since I started my journey into linux some 20 or 25 years ago. Maybe for some patriotic reason, or because it's robust, well supported by its community and is not overloaded with too many specific tools you won't find elsewhere, I had chosen OpenSuse to be my primary linux and only boot any other system from there (through grub-customizer). So yes, chapeau to OpenSuse, it's still a very fine OS that can be truly recommended.

But over the past couple of months I have come to truly appreciate all that MX linux stands for. It has a wisely and carefully chosen set of specific tools, like the very nice MX package installer, and runs at the same level of stability and reliability. Even when I had issues with kernel 5.10.0-15 in combination with Virtualbox, I could easily switch over to 5.16 AHS, wait for the problems to be solved, and then switch back to the meanwhile latest kernel in standard debian, 5.10.0-17.

What else? I like conky better than the many (often buggy) widgets you get with KDE plasma. In my case, they tend to lose their configuration and don't appear on your desktop where you had left them.

Something to improve? Well, not really anything. I struggled for a long time with discover as software manager, which was so unbelievably buggy for so many years, that I'm still not 100% comfortable with it. And I'm still not convinced if a system updater and a software store really MUST be one single application. The good news: in MX, you can always revert back to apt-get or dpgk when discover fails to do its job.

Conclusion: As an OS that does NOT rely on Ubuntu and will preserve its independence by doing so, I trust MX still has a long and bright future before it.

Keep it up!

Best,

t.

[Jerry3904]

Thanks for the good words and welcome to MX!

[jeffreyC]

If you are using a Debian or Ubuntu based KDE distro you might try Muon, it is basically Synaptic built for Qt.
While I do not spend much time using KDE I prefer it over the default in most distros.

[Stevo]

If you are using a Debian or Ubuntu based KDE distro you might try Muon, it is basically Synaptic built for Qt.
While I do not spend much time using KDE I prefer it over the default in most distros.

Qt, eh? If anyone ever respins a MX-LXQT, that seems like a good choice there.

Anyway, if you're using KDE, MX Package Installer is still available. It offers easy and safer methods to install from Debian backports or our MX test repo, plus quick ways to install some other Popular apps. No pretty images, just text, and you have to do your own research if you don't know what something like Vivaldi browser offers.