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I know that american English differs from the basics that I learned at school, but I doubt if the spelling of reveiw is one of the differences.? Review surely !!!

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Gordon Cooper wrote: Tue Sep 11, 2018 1:56 am I know that american English differs from the basics that I learned at school, but I doubt if the spelling of reveiw is one of the differences.? Review surely !!!

Oops. My fault.

It was really late when I made the initial post, and in my sleep deprived state I made a spelling mistake on the post subject. It seems pointless changing it now.

colin_b wrote: Tue Sep 11, 2018 11:24 am

Gordon Cooper wrote: Tue Sep 11, 2018 1:56 am I know that american English differs from the basics that I learned at school, but I doubt if the spelling of reveiw is one of the differences.? Review surely !!!

Oops. My fault.

It was really late when I made the initial post, and in my sleep deprived state I made a spelling mistake on the post subject. It seems pointless changing it now.

LOL I never noticed that! Of course, my speling stinks

Almost not directly related to the distro itself: I had many problems installing the nvidea video driver (MX has a dedicated application for it- just type nvidia in the menu box, press enter and it installs, but for unkown reasons, the driver kept insisting on giving me 640x480 only). Also, not that big deal: the Google Earth that MX tries to install refuses to install. I had to download the .deb file and manually install that.

Are these things that can be addressed?

colin_b wrote: Tue Sep 18, 2018 6:46 pm

Almost not directly related to the distro itself: I had many problems installing the nvidea video driver...

Are these things that can be addressed?

Yes indeed. Reminding them to check spelling before posting may help.

colin_b wrote: Tue Sep 18, 2018 6:46 pm

Almost not directly related to the distro itself: I had many problems installing the nvidea video driver (MX has a dedicated application for it- just type nvidia in the menu box, press enter and it installs, but for unkown reasons, the driver kept insisting on giving me 640x480 only). Also, not that big deal: the Google Earth that MX tries to install refuses to install. I had to download the .deb file and manually install that.

Are these things that can be addressed?

The nvidia thing is a bit of a mystery. I think I tried to help that person in the forum.

Google Earth is on the list. Hopefully this weekend.

Great job.

Google is killing off the 6.0.3 version of Google Earth that Debian's googleearth-package script/MXPI was downloading, so they no longer have it available for download. We're looking into having MXPI use the new 7.3 GE Pro that they offer instead.

Hi! I'm the guy that posted the Distrowatch review that addressed the "Almost not directly related to the distro itself" "cons"...

@dolphin_oracle - sorry, you tried to help a different person on the forum, not me, but I read that thread... My problem "magically" solved itself after a nvidia driver instalation that went wrong -giving me no graphical interface (yes I used the official MX nvidia install about half a dozen times to try solutions that were suggested on the forum...), I rebooted one time after one install and for reason the nvidia control panel started showing more screen resolutions. to this day I don't know what happened, I'm just happy it's working now...

The google earth install isn't such a big deal, but it may shoo away some linux newbies. Probably easy to solve by changing the file "MX tools" points to...

The only real cons I can think off that are really MX "fault" are:
- the from=usb option I had to use to be able to boot from usb (probably related to my funky 10 years old motherboard). Funny story: if I try to boot without that option I get a kernel error, with a option to continue booting. If I do so I'm presented with a copy of antiX screen and menu but the system does not respond to any input from the keyboard or the mouse :-)
- Also I bet that for non english speaking newbie users having to change Firefox UI language is a bit scary (it's on the manual, I guess but there's no portuguese version of the manual yet- yes I could help with that but, it's a huge enterprise, it's 150 pages...).

I gave MX top marks on my (very positive) review :-)