Distrowatch review grumbles

[j2mcgreg]

You are getting a bit off topic folks and there's already an existing thread for wallpaper discussions.

[siamhie]

We have a new leader on the board and I'm so glad. (Mint is only 7 spots away from taking the 3 month tally)
Maybe I'll stop seeing posts on the FB group bringing up DW's ranking list.

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[MadMax]

That happened probably because of the recent Mint 22 release. Let's see if Mint can keep that up to take over the main ranking

[siamhie]

That happened probably because of the recent Mint 22 release. Let's see if Mint can keep that up to take over the main ranking

Makes sense. When you land on DW, it defaults to last 6 months were MX has a lead over Mint by just 238 unique IP addy's.


C'mon Mint

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[Adrian]

I'm cheering for Mint too, hopefully people won't accuse us anymore of rigging that stupid ranking.

[siamhie]

I'm cheering for Mint too, hopefully people won't accuse us anymore of rigging that stupid ranking.

+1

I see new users of MX take that ranking as some sort of high school popularity contest.

[MadMax]

To be honest, Mint is THE beginner distro and it does a lot things the right way. I think having Mint at #1 on DW would be beneficial for the Linux ecosystem as a whole.

[Eadwine Rose]

I am very happy that I started with Mepis :) it was perfect for this total noob back then.

[PlatinumArts]

When I tested distros about a year ago I had on my list to try MX and Mint. I tried MX first and didn't want to leave it to install Mint but it is what I had agreed with myself to do. I was supposed to stick with Mint for a week but I just couldn't help but miss MX and it felt like it was just cleaner and smoother. I wish I could remember exactly why I liked MX a lot more but I didn't really see any advantages that Mint had over MX. I welcome insights though.

[siamhie]

Couple of end of July grumbles. :)

Date: 2024-07-28 / Version: 23.3 / Rating: 1
Concept seems ok but I wasn't able to install it on a test laptop, seems to have a lot of bugs in the installer and
severe hardware compatibility limitations, including some very basic issues: it seems I wasn't able to write any
changes to the partition table, so the first installation said it was complete, but on reboot it couldn't find a boot
device. Thereafter it couldn't delete any partitions on the HDD. This seems a very basic bug Maybe with more
development it will become a viable option for a desktop, but given the bugs encountered, can't imagine it would
be trustworthy enough for use.

Having worked with the Anaconda/Calamares installers in other distros, Gazelle is a breeze to use.

Date: 2024-07-31 / Version: 23.3 / Rating: 1
I've been using MX Linux for many years and... Sorry, I installed 23.3 Xfce 64Bits twice, and twice with problems
with dpkg, Wine doesn't install and Synaptic doesn't work. Frequent crashes and lock-ups making a force restart necessary.
It asks for authorization to close but even with authorization it doesn't close, I have to do it using the power button.
I know, I'm a layman, but I've always installed it without any problems, it's always worked without any problems,
this time something's wrong.
I gave up on MX Linux.
This time I will try SolydXK.

I'm at a loss on this one. MX worked for years and all of a sudden 23.3 is giving you problems. -hmm-

(I had to look up what SolydXK was. It's a project started as an unofficial variant of Linux Mint's "Debian"
edition with KDE as the default desktop, but it was later given its own identity as SolydK)