What distro do you favour? Beside MX/Antix of course...

[jeffreyC]

Mostly I stick with Debian based distros, the two other than MX Linux that I dabble with are LMDE and BunsenLabs, I ran CrunchBang before the developer quit, after that I ran LMDE as my main distro when it was made with Xfce, when they dropped Xfce from LMDE I went to Debian Xfce.

Currently I am tempted to use the BunsenLabs net install script with the CLI respin Adrian made, just to see what happens.

[davidy]

When I first ran linux fulltime I was running SalineOS, a single dev debian distro. Loved it. When the dev stopped deving I went back to winblows. MX, being a ditsrowatch fav, was obviously my next choice. It works well and does what I need it to without too much fuss. The forum help one gets is a MAJOR advantage as well. I have a couple others in the wing I want to try like xerolinux, geckolinux, artix suite66, and endeavour os arch atlantis neo but don't have the time right now to mess with it.
Anything that's debian and doesn't use systemd is for me.

[LU344928]

Devuan, Slackware and Void. MX is on my daily workhorse laptop, which previously had Slackware but now I just use it on a live usb. Devuan is on an external hd and Void on another laptop.

I'd like to multi-boot all four but I haven't yet found to find the time to do it.

[Buck Fankers]

partially OT

@handy

Sorry for late reply. I'm logging in very infrequently, once or twice a month. Yes, this is what I was doing, freezing wine, but this time something else broke the game client.

All this being said, I finally got that game to work on MX!!! With the help of some pro. I can now ditch all other Linux distributions! I mean, I like Endeavour, very nice Arch based system, I like it much better than Manjaro, but I want to only have one Linux and that is Linux MX.

I will post install guide in a day or two, in case someone else my be interested.

[linuxuzer]

MX is the best I've ever used, so it would be hard to get me to change. I started on Slackware, way back at like 9, tried almost every major distro available at the time - Gentoo, SuSE, Debian, Fedora (was RedHat back then ), used Arch linux for a few years (too much work), switched to Mint for a while - but MX has beaten all of them for ease of use and OOTB functionality.

[pianokeyjoe]

the old SuSE Linux distro of the early 2000s. Just pure GOLD! And then came Mepis/MX!

[handy]

partially OT

@handy

Sorry for late reply. I'm logging in very infrequently, once or twice a month. Yes, this is what I was doing, freezing wine, but this time something else broke the game client.

All this being said, I finally got that game to work on MX!!! With the help of some pro. I can now ditch all other Linux distributions! I mean, I like Endeavour, very nice Arch based system, I like it much better than Manjaro, but I want to only have one Linux and that is Linux MX.

I will post install guide in a day or two, in case someone else my be interested.

I may have a look at Endeavour. PCLOS crapped out on me after a big (208 packages & an hour downloading, primarily due to a major python3 update I think) update. I really couldn't be bothered spending forever trying to fix it. OR casting a backup image onto the drive & then spending forever working out how to prevent it from happening again.

Perhaps Endeavour will be more stable? I expect it runs systemd though...

[handy]

Endeavour is systemd reliant. Artix, Arch & any other distro that is closely based on Arch (Void too, for that matter) will require more effort than I want to put in - or just as likely more than I'm capable of dealing with these days. Rolling release distros require their users to be capable of recovering from the problems that they just installed. (I don't use rsync or timeshift to keep track of daily changes of my system.

So, the good news is, that I know how stable & well supported MX is. MX is systemd free & semi rolling. Shame it can't be full rolling, though if it were it would just as likely be lumped into the same boat as Arch/*, Void & the other full rollers.

Better the devil(s) you know & all that. :D

I've always said that once my mind deteriorates to the point that I can no longer use & maintain a Linux distro - there is always OS-X to fall back on. OS-X has been purposely built so that any IT illiterate computer idiot will be able to use it. Apple really has done an excellent job in that regard.

Thanks to OS-X, if my mind deteriorates enough that I have no other choice but use it, I'll likely still be able to continue to use a computer until my dying day. (Though I'll probably die of boredom!)

[seaken64]

Ever try to run OSX on an old HP laptop that used to run Windows 7? That's where MX really shines. I love that I can keep my old clunkers running with modern software.

I have one box in my lab/office that still runs Windows 10 that I use for TV on a HD Homerun and cable card. I also setup MX, Xubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE Leap, and Absolute64 (Slackware 15). I updated all of them last weekend. MX was the only one that still runs fine with my dual screen setup (One TV screen and one LCD desk monitor). All the others barfed up and I am now going through the issues trying to get my setup back.

I like playing with various linux distros. But I also make sure to put MX on every system so that I have at least one good OS to use.

Seaken

[rickyraccoon]

If I favor a distro besides MX, I'd have to say LM. Mint was my first experience with Linux, once I'd decided to leave Windows as a daily driver. I really really liked the Cinnamon DE. I like the automated version upgrades- one click takes you up to the next revision number. I also like the easy click-and-choose individual updates in the update manager. I like the look and feel of the Cinnamon DE. But I run older hardware- my newest computer is like a 2015 or 2016 motherboard- the ASRock in my signature line and you see it comes with a pretty laid back CPU- and Mint Cinnamon a couple years back or so started to get a little slower for me. Enough to think hmm time to find some other solution.

So hit the YouTubes and Distrowatch and searches for something a bit lighter. Tried Lubuntu several times it sure looks pretty but always manages to tick me off in one fashion or another. Love Mint with the Cinnamon DE but hate Mint Xfce, I never have liked it and probably never will, every time I try it out it finds some way to irritate me, like Lubuntu does. Also still manages to use more resources than MX.

I'm happy with my MX. I never thought I'd like Xfce but that was because Mint's implementation had put a bad taste in my mouth to me MX is nothing like it. I'm not an uber-technical Linux junkie I just want my computer to do what I want it to do without pissing me off and MX does the job nicely. Every so often I'll try another distro, I'll retry Mint Xfce or Lubuntu, tried Endeavor and a few others but yeah I'm going to be with MX a good while, it's lean enough to suit my affinity for Less Is More (my very very first computer was a Sinclair ZX-80 so I'm used to being the weird minimalist kid) but still have a really nice environment that doesn't make me feel as if I'm being deprived of anything. I've messed around with antiX some and would use that on my little baby emachine desktop in the sig line except for one application I run on it that just insists upon crashing starting a couple upgrades ago (the application upgrades, not antiX). But MX Fluxbox does well enough for my needs there.

But yeah if I happened onto a more powerful machine and I was tempted to stray from MX it'd be Mint Cinnamon. Maybe. Pretty happy with what I got and at this point don't really see a need to switch off it.