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"The best choice from MX Linux will be versions 17.1 and 18. Subsequent versions have worsened. Of these, 18.3 the most unsuccessful. This is the opinion of my hardware on an old 9 year old desktop. And I agree with my computer."

Non functional. Install almost bricked my laptop.
Another distro cured it. I am not giving MX another try.

PPC wrote: Fri Jul 05, 2019 10:20 am [...]

How does a Os instlation brick a computer, I wonder? Some problem with Grub? Also, how does a distro cure a "almost bricked" computer?

P.

manyroads wrote: Fri Jul 05, 2019 10:30 am 'fool with a tool' is still a 'fool'. :lipsrsealed:

asqwerth wrote: Fri Jul 05, 2019 11:52 am There were changes to the installer for 18.3 though, so who knows?

It is possible some of the more recent reviewers with complaints might have genuinely encountered issues.

Stevo wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2019 2:24 pm And we'll take the complaints seriously if they give us serious information about what went wrong; not FUD on the level of "MX is icky and gave my computer the cooties. I had to put a crystal on it to heal its aura."

Stevo wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2019 2:24 pm

asqwerth wrote: Fri Jul 05, 2019 11:52 am There were changes to the installer for 18.3 though, so who knows?

It is possible some of the more recent reviewers with complaints might have genuinely encountered issues.

And we'll take the complaints seriously if they give us serious information about what went wrong; not FUD on the level of "MX is icky and gave my computer the cooties. I had to put a crystal on it to heal its aura."

Version: 18.3
Rating: 7
Date: 2019-07-22
Votes: 0

Power management on the Lenovo Thinkpads that are from 7 years to 2 years of age is not optimized and the Thinkpads run hot and uses a lot of battery power.....not a laptop you want to go and sit outside and type a long-winded document for the office or do spreadsheet budget alterations with ....Guys, please look at power optimizations....currently Linux Mint 18 and above caters for all that and battery life is exceptionally longer on Linux Mint than MX Linux.

Version: 18.3
Rating: 8
Date: 2019-07-24
Votes: 0

I installed it on two machines, it runs without issues on my old Quad-Core system from 2007 which sports an NVidia card. The proprietary drivers were a cinch to install.

On my laptop, which is AMD, things are a little wonkier. I have to boot into safe video, otherwise things are useless for me. The screen doesn't update itself at all it seems. What I mean by that is, I'll click the "install" option on the desktop, but it appears that the installer freezes. It DOESN'T, and I discovered it accidentally. I clicked the Mx "start" button and I noticed the updated install screen. Basically, every time I entered info on the install screen and clicked "next", I had to hit the 'start' button again just to see the install screen move forward. If I enable 'safevideo' that doesn't happen, but then it'll use the boot parameter of 'nomodeset'. That's fine if you don't plan to tweak anymore, but you can't do anything to configure resolution or anything else.

Specifically, my video is AMD's "Volcanic" something. This distro and PCLinuxOS are the only two distro's I've had issues with, but it was addressed with PCLinuxOS.