Distros you tried but didn't like

[NickStone]

This is just a bit of fun. I'm asking this to all the distro hoppers out there.

What are the distro's that you have tried but for whatever reason you didn't like and quickly replaced (presumably with MX)? What was the reason why you didn't like them?

[LU344928]

With me it's not a case of which ones I didn't like so much but rather a case of which ones I didn't like as much as MX.

My first distro, after re-entering the Linux world in 2017, was Fedora. I still think it's a good distro. But I like MX better, and no systemd.

On older machines I've used Devuan and Slackware, which are both excellent, and no systemd. But I find MX easier to use than both.

[chrispop99]

Not a single distro, but I'm always disappointed with BSD. I really want to like it, but on the same hardware as a Linux distro it is always slower. Couple that with some hardware limitations, and I never dabble with it much.

NomadBSD is interesting, because it is intended to be used as a live USB with persistence by default, although it can be installed.

Chris

[Colonel Panic]

Hi everyone,

I struggled with Crux. I tried Exton's spin on it (CruxEx) a while back, but it took an age to update anything and it insisted on updating the whole of Rust just because of one small package that relied on it.

I had the same problem with Gentoo.

I liked the concept of Crux though, but it really isn't a beginner's distro.

I have a love-hate relationship with Arch; I keep trying it, and then giving up when something breaks after updating. I've got Endeavour on a partition though, which works very well.

[whell]

I've tried quite a few. I'm no Linux expert so my bias is towards an OS that's easy to use and hard to screw up.

Sparky was OK, but had some usability quirks. I love the look of KDE but the only KDE distro that worked will for me was Mepis. I've had little luck with Plasma based distros: typically too much memory hogging going on.

I do like what Mint has to offer. It ticked my two biggest boxes and then some. I used Ubuntu Studio for quite a while as a music server, and it worked well.

My problem with the other distros that I've tried is that they're not MX Linux. The Mepis "it just works" DNA is still prevalent here, and the community is second to none.

[richb]

I liked Kubuntu because of KDE. I used it before MX had a KDE version. That is I did use MX XFCE version along with Kubuntu. I could not administer an MX Forum without using it.

[NickStone]

...I like MX better, and no systemd.

That's not true. MX does have systemd but by default it is not used as an init system.

[LU344928]

...I like MX better, and no systemd.

That's not true. MX does have systemd but by default it is not used as an init system.

Ah yes, but default is the key word.

Until you enable it, there's no systemd.

[FullScale4Me]

Lununtu drove me to MX during the time they were changing from LXDE to LXQt desktop. They did it over two releases.

It was a mosh pit of breakage! Doing anything with Wine was a constant struggle, too.

[Adrian]

I kind of disliked how Ubuntu is forcing people to use snaps. But otherwise I think I can't say I disliked any distro (even if I don't like their choices, like pushing GNOME on their users)