Distrowatch review grumbles

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Re: Distrowatch review grumbles

#561 Post by FullScale4Me »

Stevo wrote: Wed Dec 28, 2022 8:40 pm Does Distrowatch have any mechanism to complain about bad faith reviews like these?
The amount of reviews visible without clicking is fixed at 3 so that only the newest (hopefully good) reviews are displayed. Yes, they push the older ones off the page but to your point does not eliminate them. There is nothing stopping non-newbs from posting 'My first month of using MX' or 'Thoughts after using MX for 1 year'.

A recent one I liked is below:
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Re: Distrowatch review grumbles

#562 Post by MadMax »

I regularily check the boards and they were not down any time when I checked. Also the MX repos were never down on me in the last 1.5 years I'm using my MX installation on a daily basis.
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Re: Distrowatch review grumbles

#563 Post by siamhie »

DW has changed the XFCE desktop screenshot to the current MX-23 desktop but no mention of the alpha release.

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Re: Distrowatch review grumbles

#564 Post by asqwerth »

Well that's unfortunate. :-)
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Re: Distrowatch review grumbles

#565 Post by siamhie »

asqwerth wrote: Fri Apr 07, 2023 10:26 pm Well that's unfortunate. :-)

Maybe they are using it as a place holder for when MX 23 is released. BTW, the HPD just cracked the 2800 mark (2804) with second place EndeavourOS sitting at 2376. Both showing green up arrows.
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Re: Distrowatch review grumbles

#566 Post by dolphin_oracle »

I didn't do a blog post for the alpha, and I'm not intending to. just announced it in the community.
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Re: Distrowatch review grumbles

#567 Post by siamhie »

dolphin_oracle wrote: Fri Apr 07, 2023 11:53 pm I didn't do a blog post for the alpha, and I'm not intending to. just announced it in the community.

That probably explains the new screenshot. Do they do their own independent reviews?
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Re: Distrowatch review grumbles

#568 Post by MadMax »

Well, you better design a good wallpaper for the next alpha release then XD

I really do like the MX palm trees, though.
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Re: Distrowatch review grumbles

#569 Post by Alby »

Well I picked a " Wildflower " today and the iso was obtained from the DW site ... worked just tickety boo from 19.4 to 21.3 via a live usb boot
dead impressed ... not grumbling at all in fact exactly the opposite

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#570 Post by Freja »

MadMax wrote: Sat Apr 08, 2023 12:53 pm Well, you better design a good wallpaper for the next alpha release then XD

I really do like the MX palm trees, though.
Even if it is renewed, I want to keep the palm trees.
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