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Cons:
-There is no disk management application (calameres), so if you are planning to create a multiple system boot with one drive, it will be more difficult.

B$. Several weeks ago, I installed Slackware 15 on my spare partition, then I installed Fluxbox and when grub came up, both OS's where available.

Version: 21.1
Rating: 5
Date: 2022-04-16
Votes: 0


I like MX Linux and used it for my main desktop up to version 19.3 There's a lot to like with this distro and many tools.but the latest version seems a little half-baked.

I tried to install the XFCE version and the Openbox version

and each time during the early stage of install, a big ugly flower thing began spinning as it was going to check out my hardware and it never came back. Just spun and spun.

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I also feel like the flower background is ugly and reminds me of something my grandmother might like.

I was unable to install the latest version and wound up using Linux Mint. I'd like to be able to install MX again.

i presume fluxbox rather than openbox, but yes, whatever freezes up at the startup is not relieved by the addition of the spinny thing.

Huckleberry Finn wrote: Sun Apr 17, 2022 2:49 pm Version: 21.1

I also feel like the flower background is ugly and reminds me of something my grandmother might like.

How nice to see the word "ugly" again--I was beginning to think we'd lost our special touch!

Jerry3904 wrote: Sun Apr 17, 2022 3:22 pmHow nice to see the word "ugly" again--I was beginning to think we'd lost our special touch!

He/She forgot to use the word "bloaty" :D

How does this sound? : " MX-22 Bloaty Mary " ...

The flowery spinny thing is the new "working" animation in the installer while trying to detect all partitions and devices. But I wonder why it seemed not to be able to detect the user's partitions.

We must be prepared to be criticized, especially if the MX has a lot of attention. It's the same with me who was involved in wallpaper.

Wildflower probably chose the catchy codename and wallpaper "Honesty" because MX Linux had to visually declare that it had "entered a new phase" with debian Bullseye, while still inheriting the concept of the past. I understand that it was done.

Therefore, the MX-22 will probably require more mature features (new Window theme etc.), and the wallpaper will require a "less flashy" "system perfection" visual to express it. I think it is.

There is still time for development on the MX-22. While watching the forum, I will start developing the wallpaper for MX-22, which is "quiet but the system is highly complete".

Most of the other influential distribution main wallpapers are CG works, which gives a generally modern impression. MXs shouldn't be "similar" to them, and of course, don't break the flow of (pastoral) MX. The hurdles are quite high, but I will try.

@Freja just want to say thank you for the awesome art you contributed to the project. As for critics, I wouldn't pay too much attention to them, some say "Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize" interestingly that's true for art as it's true for programming and many other things in life.

Huckleberry Finn wrote: Sun Apr 17, 2022 5:43 pm

Jerry3904 wrote: Sun Apr 17, 2022 3:22 pmHow nice to see the word "ugly" again--I was beginning to think we'd lost our special touch!

He/She forgot to use the word "bloaty" :D

How does this sound? : " MX-22 Bloaty Mary " ...

If that would make it through I will laugh every time I see it, since the sound makes it sound like nakey Mary. Even though we spell that different, the sound is similar

To be fair, I think MX21 XFCE was a challenging distro because Debian 11 brought in XFCE4.16, with its mix of CSD and non-CSD gtk3 elements, plus we also introduced Docklike. Both are things people might need some time to get used to, or maybe they might never get used to it. Then we had the new "spreadsheet" installer page.

The installer interface especially might cause issues if people aren't paying attention. The first time I used it (this was during the alpha testing phase, the installer has probably changed since then), I created a / partition with only 25MB because I didn't realise the sizing option was in MB and not GB. Then I could not understand why my installation could not complete and the error message was not clear on the issue. Now that I do understand it, it makes so much sense and installation is really quick. And now I've gotten used to Docklike and enabled its window previews, it's pretty cool.

But the initial usage of all the above might be cause for some of unease and apparent issues with MX21 XFCE.