Distrowatch review grumbles

[JayM]

I doubt if anybody here even cares how many page hits the MX website gets where Distrowatch is the referrer anyway, let alone sits around all day long switching proxies and clicking on Distrowatch's link over and over. It's summer (in the northern hemisphere anyway), there's a global pandemic to be concerned about, people have to earn a living somehow, it's getting near harvest time (for those with fruit trees and veggie gardens), and there's way too much other stuff to do.

[dolphin_oracle]

I doubt if anybody here even cares how many page hits the MX website gets where Distrowatch is the referrer anyway, let alone sits around all day long switching proxies and clicking on Distrowatch's link over and over. It's summer (in the northern hemisphere anyway), there's a global pandemic to be concerned about, people have to earn a living somehow, it's getting near harvest time (for those with fruit trees and veggie gardens), and there's way too much other stuff to do.

its true. I haven't used the clickbot army since COVID started!

[Michael-IDA]

I have seen entire Twitter streams dedicated to the idea that the only explanation for our DW positions is that "everybody knows" that we game the system. Who here has time for that?!

its true. I haven't used the clickbot army since COVID started!

Based upon the number of IP blocks my servers log for plain sshd authentication failures (over 20K in the last 15 days on 1* servers), it is obvious there are a huge number of easily compromised servers out there you can use for that clickbot army Either that or a) it’s damn easy to fake IP addresses, or b) there is some really, really cheap labor somewhere in the world...

Not that anybody in their right mind would waste their time to game DW...

*Edit: I've switched all my servers to whitelist IP and closed ports, except one (because client), wondered why those numbers felt so wrong...

[Gerson]

Lleva varias semanas a la baja Distrowatch. ¿Se perdió el interés?

[SwampRabbit]

Lleva varias semanas a la baja Distrowatch. ¿Se perdió el interés?

Well a few of the bots tested positive for COVID, so they had to be quarantined, the rest have to follow new internet social distancing guidance so its taking them a bit longer to get clicks in.

[Stevo]

The reviewer is vision-impaired, and MX is the only distro they've managed to get to run well on their iMac--this despite our not paying much attention to accessibility because of our lack of time to devote to it. Luckily, they've made do with the tools already in Debian.

[Huckleberry Finn]

@JayM on Distrowatch

Dual GPU Multi-Monitor has no support.

Nvidia + intel gpu + igpu

If you are looking to use two different GPUs it is not possible on MX Linux.

How a moderator of the MX linux forum quotes is currently impossible.


Dual Monitor Setup Issue - Forum MX Linux

"Nobody has managed to get Xfce and MX to be able to use two different GPUs at the same time that I'm aware of, though people have tried. The only thing that seems to work is hooking both monitors up to two different video connectors on the same graphics card."
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Spending hours looking for information to try to fix it was useless.
This is not in his manual.

Hope to save you time if you plan to use Dual GPU Multi-Monitor.

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[richb]

How a moderator of the MX linux forum quotes is currently impossible.

I do not know what this means.

[pannet1]

I dont know about clickbot and other real world things. Somehow, I wanted to maintain the number 1 position in distrowatch. Is there anything i could do about it. From my side, i am letting the app developers to provide a package for MX LInux citing the number 1 position.

I used to hop from one distro to another that comes up in the distro watch. After switching to MX Linux, i am not looking back. Even if MX Linux looses its no 1 position, i am not going to change. However, i cannot say the samething about others.

The only reason, why someone wanted to switch to another distro could be because of the XFCE default look and feel. I may be wrong here. Please let me know you thoughts.

Thanks.

[Mauser]

Lleva varias semanas a la baja Distrowatch. ¿Se perdió el interés?

Well a few of the bots tested positive for COVID, so they had to be quarantined, the rest have to follow new internet social distancing guidance so its taking them a bit longer to get clicks in.