What makes MX better than Debian?

[Stevo]

and all this time i thought it was butter.

Can't believe it's butter!

ZOMG, I thought it was butter, too!

I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT BUTTER!™

MX is better because I have my fingers in the pie!

[Eadwine Rose]

Oh great... not gonna find hairs in there too, am I?

[carolus]

MX is Debian prêt-à-porter.

Exactly.

On my primary computer I run debian xfce as a virtual machine. On an older machine I run MX from a USB stick. I don't see much difference. The main thing I want from a linux distribution is easy access to the debian repository. Several years ago debian dismissed those debian-live developers who were interested in running from USB, to focus exclusively on installation media.

Booting MX from a USB2 stick is faster than booting the old Windows 7 system, and avoids the risk and complications of dual booting.

(Somewhat off topic: on my oldest hardware I run antix from a stick. Not as handy as MX, but less demanding of the hardware, and better resource monitors)

[j2mcgreg]

I view Debian as being akin to a kit car where-as MX is the finished product.

[Huckleberry Finn]

MX is better for the following reasons: easy to install, semi rolling release, some software is newer, larger repositories with more software, tools and tweaks that makes it easy, no systemD, and not locked out of non free or open source software.

systemd is installed but boot defaults to SysV unless you go to advanced options from the boot screen.

Wrong! SystemD is disabled by default.

@siamhie is correct.

[thinkpadx]

debian does offer non-free versions so it makes debian more doable as a plus. you have to dig around on their site. they have the codecs etc built into these iso's. that is what i used when i used debian before settling into MX. they offer all the various desktops under this profile too.

i have to say that recently debian finally straightened out their forums from a lot of the arrogance and knucklehead holier than thou's there too. so the forums are much more approachable now.

however i am a huge MX fan. I am glad i gave it a shot under 18 and then 19.

[Mauser]

systemd is installed but boot defaults to SysV unless you go to advanced options from the boot screen.

Wrong! SystemD is disabled by default.

@siamhie is correct.

You are WRONG!

[Eadwine Rose]

If all the kids would just sit down and eat their bananas now. It is break time!