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

[galen]

Puppy Linux
Bionic edition
works great as a rescue & bootable USB
and a travel OS

[rc racer]

I have Linux Mint on an old Laptop with the cinnamon desktop; But I have MX on my newer laptop and on my desktop all in one.

[mowest]

I haven't run Mint, but I do have experience running Ubuntu flavors and Fedora.

In the case of Ubuntu flavors, I have done in place upgrades from one release to the next sometimes moving from LTS to interim releases and then back to LTS's as they became available. In WSL (on my Windows systems) I often upgrade from LTS to LTS. All of my in place upgrades have gone very well often spanning 2-4, or maybe even 6 updates (since these updates can be either 6 months apart or 2 years apart) before the system has a hard drive crash or it gets cycled out of use because of newer hardware.

I have done the same with Fedora. I have a Fedora workstation system that is on Fedora 36 currently, and started on Fedora 31. I just do an in place upgrade from one version to the next on Fedora. These upgrades have also worked without issue. The one thing that has happened with my Fedora install is that I'm not able to take advantage of Btrfs as the default file system on Fedora because my original install was XFS before they switched to Btrfs as the default. I think there might be a way to in place change the file system, but I have not wanted to try that out, since it is my main system that I use at home.

That being said, I have not minded doing fresh installs of MX versions. On my workstation at work, which I don't want to have any issues, I do have my home partition on a separate Btrfs array of drives, and the root partition and boot on a separate SSD, so fresh installs only touch the SSD and then I map /home to the Btrfs drives. My other MX system is a "vacation/couch" system that doesn't get a ton of use unless I'm wanting to sit in my recliner or I'm on vacation, so doing fresh installs on that system are not a big deal either, especially since I have documented the changes I need to make after a fresh install.

[rokytnji.1]

Slackel and SaliX

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=slackel

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=salix

[Artim]

Ha! I knew I wasn't the only SalixOS user around here. The new 15.0 (still available in 32-bit) will (hopefully) keep my ancient Dell Dimension alive for another several years.

[cmhobbs]

I use Pop!_OS at work because it's basically Ubuntu but a little more polished. Almost all of our development runs on Ubuntu so it's nice to have something similar. I'm also using the linux-surface project stuff because that machine is a Surface Pro 7+. I don't care much for GNOME but I tolerate it because it's got a touch screen. I've never tried KDE with it.

I'm much more comfortable in XFCE so if I have to install something other than MX or antiX, I go with Xubuntu on personal machines. For friends and family, I tend to suggest whatever the default release of Mint is.

[Aronticuz]

I tried Big Linux and found it impressive to begin with but then ... I tried to uninstall Firefox uh-huh a language dependency prevented it from uninstalling.
I tried an install of Librewolf and Firefox appeared. On the fly I thought I saw some adobe fonts. All of these together = uninstalled quickly.
Kudos to the work done of Thunderbird 102 - it makes moving things so much easier. So I do not favour Big Linux - but it is pretty swift and quick at what it does

I also tried Nitrux partly because it seemed interesting and partly to have some experience on a Gentoo linked distro ... but after about 2 minutes it was not for me.

Isn't it great to have live USB options!

So my fallback distro has to be Linux Mint - for the time being

[rickyraccoon]

Late in catching up to this thread.

When I opined I miss the Mint way of being able to do a full version upgrade (say from 20.x to 21) that's not to say I mind doing a fresh install- I have a terabyte HDD I use only for long term data storage, and it's a simple matter to dump the contents of my SSD I run MX off of to that, then reinstall.

Until now, but that's a matter for a thread I'm fixin' to start in the hardware subforum...