MX-14 Review

[lucky9]

I guess I'm less inclined to need eye-candy. MX14 is fine OOTB for me. I did use the Meta-Installer to install Firefox. At this time that's all that's been done. It runs great on my Netbook and that's all I ask of it. antiX 13.2 is on it also. It was actually easier to get online using WiFi while using MX14. Usually it takes antiX and ceni to accomplish that.

I'll do some 'house cleaning' in the near future. There are some things that I'm probably not going to use and some that I'd like to add.
As an aside, I don't use Flash a lot. My Browser's have Plug-ins that restrict it unless I want to see something. I have yet to even open Qupzilla. Guess I really should just to see it.

As noted by others the tone of that review wasn't warranted by facts with the possible exception of Qupzilla and Flash. I noticed the reviewer missed the Meta-Installer until reminded. I had trouble finding it myself. I'm getting old enough to use getting old as an excuse so that didn't bother me much.
I'd personally give MX14 a 9.0-9.5 out of 10.

[karieho]

The more I use MX-14 the more I love it. I recommend it also to Dedoimedo.
He can not install Mageia...same problem with using MX-14?

"A lot of you emailed me, asking me, why the heck wouldn't I review Mageia,
what's my problem, and such. Well, I would, honest miss, but the problem is,
this distribution does not want to cooperate with my hardware."


http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/mageia-3.html

[MX-tester]

I wasn't too keen at first, but It seems the more I use MX-14 the more I like it.

I've removed Qupzilla (& installed Iceweasel) because it doesn't handle my bookmarks how I like; also removed Clementine & installed Audacious.

[joany]

The more I use MX-14 the more I love it. I recommend it also to Dedoimedo.
He can not install Mageia...same problem with using MX-14?

"A lot of you emailed me, asking me, why the heck wouldn't I review Mageia,
what's my problem, and such. Well, I would, honest miss, but the problem is,
this distribution does not want to cooperate with my hardware."


http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/mageia-3.html

Doesn't Dedoimedo have a CD/DVD drive? I've read a lot of posts from people who couldn't get a USB to boot but had success with a CD or DVD. Seems kind of dumb and shortsighted to write off a distro on account of that.

[Jerry3904]

But look what he did with MX-14: ignored the design intent for a "midweight" OS and the CD limit, and reviewed it against his projection of a full OS with no size limit. Between dumb and shortsighted I would be able to choose.

[male]

I only understand this "dedoimedo-man" has no idea of Linux.

..
I tried two different USB sticks, and had the image written using three different tools, including Universal USB Pendrive, UNetbootin and USB Writer.
..

I became a "grown up" with Mageia and had never Installation problems. Betraying three USB tools, he knows not, Mageia provides only hybrid ISO's from.

The pejorative assessment of MX-14 borders on insult. A typical "Windoser".

[Jerry3904]

I finally sent Dedo an email, which I guess I will reprint here:

One regret about the MX-14 Review

Hi --

As the Project Manager for MX-14, I appreciated your in-depth review of the OS even as i was obviously not in agreement with all your conclusions. But here's the fundamental point that I don't understand.

MX-14 announces on the website that it is designed to be a midweight OS limited to 700 MB in order to fit on a CD, and Distrowatch repeated that in its announcement. You're a smart guy and know very well that working within those very tight limitations forces countless choices about packages: no room for GIMP (but Mirage is a good midweight substitute), for any full-sized browser (Firefox is 50 MB larger that QupZilla, a good midweight substitute), etc.

Given the explicit goals announced for the OS, it seems to me that your initial choice as a reviewer was either to reject the premises for some set of reasons, or grant the premises and review the development product within them--including the methods made available to the user to alter the OS depending on personal needs, wants and hardware.

Because you passed over in silence the presence and effect of those explicit goals, you were free to compare MX-14 to the model of a full system with unlimited resources--which it specifically stated it was not. That seemed to me to fall below your usual level of quality analysis that has kept me reading your stuff for quite a while. Luckily it did not appear to affect the 16,000 downloads during the first month after release, a high number for a new kid on the block that suggests to me that you may well see us again next year.

Jerry

[ko]

...suggests to me that you may well see us again next year.

Politely phrased, but I would prefer you to really ignore this joker next year.

[uncle mark]

That seemed to me to fall below your usual level of quality analysis that has kept me reading your stuff for quite a while. Luckily it did not appear to affect the 16,000 downloads during the first month after release...

LOL! You sound like my wife. She can tell people to go to hell and have them thank her for it... until they realize after the fact that was actually what she did.

[Jerry3904]

It's all a rhetorical exercise!