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Google Chrome, Hangouts
Pale Moon,
Galculator,
GIMP,
qBittorent,
Screenshot,
Leafpad,
Orage Calendar,
Antix Conky,
Gparted,
LibreOffice Writer, Calc, Impress.
Mirage,
Xfburn,
HPLip - HPPrinter,
Synaptic,
Live USB Maker,
Package Installer,
VLC,
Kdenlive,
MX Live Unmounter, YAD,

JR

VLC
SMPlayer
Libreoffice
OBS studio
VirtualBox
FireFox
SublimeText
Python (I'm working on a self posting app that looks for content in a few sites and makes its own post)
Bibisco
Gparted
DosBox
NoMacs
Clementine
E-book reader
Calibre
last but not least MX Package Installer

Palemoon
Thunderbird
Thunar
Conky
Libreoffice
Gpdfview
Pdfshuffler
KeepassXC
MxTools
Lifeograph
Terminal
Mx Package installer
Synaptic
Grub customizer
Gnome disk Utility
VLC

bash

my first post on this great forum! Love MXLinux -have moved from Mint. Main harware Thinkpad W520 and X230.
Apps:
Chrome browser
R-Studio ( took a bit of effort getting everything installed including RStan for Bayesian models
Anaconda/Python( also took a bit of effort)
WXMaxima - computer algebra system
Libreoffice Calc
Galculator

VLC ( I use this for my music collection as well as video)
Darktable and Shotwell for photography

PCManFM and SpaceFM file managers - I use SpaceFM when I want todo stuff in Root
KeepassXC - for keeping notes on various personal accounts etc

Timeshift for recovery on localmachine
MXTools - Snapshot/Live USB works brilliantly to have your configured OS+Apps on USB and installation various machines - I have a few!
TLP and TLPUI for power management - needs acpi-call-dkms

All in all I am very pleased now that I have everything set up. The machine runs cool. Ram usage after boot is a bit under 300MB.

A couple ofadditional points:
- Thunar was verrry slooow in starting up and behaved erratically - thats why I switched to PCManFM and SpaceFM
- text editor:I am using gedit
- pdf viewer: qpdfview

- Also for MXtools - in Snapshot I tried lz4 compression and the live boot failed. So went back to the xz compression.

- The Archive Manager is superb for storing old tax and financial stuff securely.

So finally - Iam currently on the road and using my Thinkpad X230 which I bought for $95 on ebay! With MXLinux - it is blazing fast and does everything I need from a laptop.

rs55 wrote: Wed Feb 27, 2019 12:36 pm So finally - Iam currently on the road and using my Thinkpad X230 which I bought for $95 on ebay! With MXLinux - it is blazing fast and does everything I need from a laptop.

That was a good deal on the X230. I've got a X220, T410, and just picked up a 11e Thinkpad. These are great machines :)

KBD wrote: Wed Feb 27, 2019 1:12 pm

rs55 wrote: Wed Feb 27, 2019 12:36 pm So finally - Iam currently on the road and using my Thinkpad X230 which I bought for $95 on ebay! With MXLinux - it is blazing fast and does everything I need from a laptop.

That was a good deal on the X230. I've got a X220, T410, and just picked up a 11e Thinkpad. These are great machines :)

yeah - and it has the IPS screen as well. I have a X220 which I bought new in 2011. Recently bought two X230s. Also have a couple of W520s ! I dont like the new laptops-so I stocked upon the last good generation!

I was on Windows 7 until a few months ago. Hearing the horror stories about Windows 10 and the subscription/ads/spyware model that MS seems to be moving to - I decided tocheck out linux. Was happy with Mint-mate. Then I came across MX and here are the big reasons I am excited by MX:
- MX Tools -superb. Especially the snapshots/liveUSB tools. Also the boot management tools and boot repair ( this might come in handy in case windows borks the machine and messes up grub -I have a couple of my machines on dual boot).
- The Debian 9 base seems pretty solid and has long term support. Mint seemed to get updates every day ,not MX.
- The package installer is better than Mint's( not as pretty,but more powerful).

Life is better without windows!