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Hi All

Just wanted to drop by and offer my sincere thanks to all who contribute to mx14 its fast becoming my fave distro, so much so I am doing a full series on it on my youtube channel from a noob perspective, I hope it offers some insights for you all and I know you will all chuckle your hearts out as I fall through it with style, well fall through it any how. If I can be of help in any tiny way to the community id be very happy indeed.

Once again my sincere thanks.

LinuxHelpGuy

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LinuxHelpGuy wrote:Just wanted to drop by and offer my sincere thanks to all who contribute to mx14 its fast becoming my fave distro, so much so I am doing a full series on it on my youtube channel from a noob perspective, I hope it offers some insights for you all and I know you will all chuckle your hearts out as I fall through it with style, well fall through it any how. If I can be of help in any tiny way to the community id be very happy indeed.

Note that there have been two point releases since the original. MX-14.2 is now the current version. (It appeared your earlier excellent review was based on MX-14 or perhaps MX-14.1.)

Sounds great! We look forward to your series!

Thanks a lot! I really enjoyed your review, it's nice to see somebody who gets it. We are always looking forward to constructive suggestions. Let us know if you have any questions.

Or suggestions. I don't think we have the 'not thought of here' syndrome. And thanks for the review. Always good to see good things about any release.

I'm a User, so have little to do except use the OS. So having a 'turnkey' OS OOTB is a big deal for me. I'm still experimenting with MX14 with KDE. It has surprised me on how it fairs on my almost ten year old Desktop. The default MX14 works wonderfully on a single-core Atom Netbook (as does antiX 13.2). MX14 has taken over the Netbook as it's primary OS for now. I use a 3G Modem which the software does a wonderful job of initializing and enables an easy (easiest I've found anyway) getting online experience.

@LinuxHelpGuy,

Thanks for posting your excellent MX-14 review. You covered quite a bit in a fairly short video, but there are some additional gems that weren't mentioned. You may want to review these and include them in a future video.

In the MX Package Installer (which used to be called metapackage-installer), there is a category called WindowManger. If you want to change desktop environments, this is the place to go. I used it to install KDE 4.8.4 on my MX-14 installation. I'm using KDE right now and and lovin' it.

There are some other goodies that I'm pretty sure are unique to MX-14:

Grub Customizer (makes it easy to modify GRUB2 through a GUI)
Snapshot (makes a bootable .iso image of your entire installed system)
Disk Manager (dynamically mounts partitions and makes changes to /etc/fstab automatically so you don't have to)

Be sure to check these out.

I'm also looking forward to watching your latest full set of videos from a noob's perspective and I'm sure that it will help us (the dev team plus friends) improve on MX in the future.

I also agree with what Adrian posted above. It was so refreshing to watch a video review from someone who gets what we are about. Kudos!

You mention the great videos by 'run_with_the_dolphin' that add a huge plus to MX-14 and I totally agree with you and would like to thank him (dolphin_oracle) for his great work. Take a bow d_o!

***blush***

Thanks. Its nice to see the channel mentioned!

joany wrote:@LinuxHelpGuy,

Thanks for posting your excellent MX-14 review. You covered quite a bit in a fairly short video, but there are some additional gems that weren't mentioned. You may want to review these and include them in a future video.

In the MX Package Installer (which used to be called metapackage-installer), there is a category called WindowManger. If you want to change desktop environments, this is the place to go. I used it to install KDE 4.8.4 on my MX-14 installation. I'm using KDE right now and and lovin' it.

There are some other goodies that I'm pretty sure are unique to MX-14:

Grub Customizer (makes it easy to modify GRUB2 through a GUI)
Snapshot (makes a bootable .iso image of your entire installed system)
Disk Manager (dynamically mounts partitions and makes changes to /etc/fstab automatically so you don't have to)

Be sure to check these out.

The newer 14.2 MX release has a few utilities made specially for MX (or adapted from antix) like mx-bootrepair, mx-switchuser. Also MX package installer, which replaces the metapackage installer in MX 14.

Not sure about snapshot, but grub customiser is from a made-for-ubuntu ppa, and Solydxk has it as well, though I can't recall if it's in their default install images. I agree it is pretty unusual for these two debian distros to have it.

Disk manager is from the standard debian repositories I think, but not many distros have it in their default install images. I didn't know of its existence until I saw it in MX. Very useful if you have separate data partitions.

Hi All

Many thanks for your kind posts I have indeed noted all the points you have made and my series will use 14.2 and cover everything from install to more advanced topics, please forgive my initial videos as I am trying to cover it all from a brand new user perspective, so please have a giggle at stuff you take for granted that other users just scratch their head about. I will do my best to make this series a real help to your community while trying not to replicate the great work done by dolphin, as his videos are first class.

Dolphin where possible may I have your permission to point users to your video's please as there is just no point in duplicating stuff, and this will really help me move the series on quicker than i could otherwise do.

Finally please keep this thread alive and feel free to post any things you want covered and also please post criticism of anything I get wrong so I can correct any mistakes in future videos.

Finally once again many sincere thanks to all who have made this distro I hope I can encourage others to at least try the o/s and in some small way help your community.

Sincerely

Linux Help Guy.

It would help if you could also point to the documentation now and then, online here:

Www.mepiscommunity.org/doc_mx/

Dolphin where possible may I have your permission to point users to your video's please as there is just no point in duplicating stuff, and this will really help me move the series on quicker than i could otherwise do.

Of course

Hi Dolphin

Many thanks buddy.

Jerry thanks your point is noted and added.

Three more videos are now up:
MX14 The Linux Users Distro

Jerry, I don't know how much you are paying this guy, but it is probably not enough.

I think the new configurability of the Whisker Menu is worth a mention. This now makes it the best of the 'Gourmet' menus.

It is great, but is an upstream change and so not particular to MX-14.

BitJam wrote:Three more videos are now up:
MX14 The Linux Users Distro

Jerry, I don't know how much you are paying this guy, but it is probably not enough.

Thanks, missed this post while I was gone.