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RI2CA
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New to MX

#1 Post by RI2CA »

Hello from a new-ish MX user. I've been using another distro (The big 'D') for several years and I decided it was time to move on to greener pastures. I've been playing with various distros in virtual machines for some time and MX is the first one that feels refined and stable enough for bare metal installation.
Over the weekend I installed MX 18.1 on my laptop. I blocked out an hour for the job because I expected to be fixing audio and touchpad issues, graphics drivers, brightness control... on and on. To my surprise, EVERYTHING just worked! I don't anticipate any major issues that would require me to post to the forum, but I wanted to say hello and thanks to the community for producing such a good distro.
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Re: New to MX

#2 Post by Jerry3904 »

Welcome, thanks for posting!
Production: 5.10, MX-23 Xfce, AMD FX-4130 Quad-Core, GeForce GT 630/PCIe/SSE2, 16 GB, SSD 120 GB, Data 1TB
Personal: Lenovo X1 Carbon with MX-23 Fluxbox
Other: Raspberry Pi 5 with MX-23 Xfce Raspberry Pi Respin
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Re: New to MX

#3 Post by seaken64 »

Welcome. And now you can use that time you blocked out for something else! Taking out the trash, an oil change, washing the motor cycle, etc.

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MX21-64 XFCE & W11 on Lenovo 330S LT. MX21-KDE & MX21-XFCE on Live USB.
MX18-64 & W7, Fedora on HP Core2 DT
MX21-32 XFCE w/ MX-Fluxbox on P4HT DT w/ antiX21, SUSE Tumbleweed, Q4OS, WXP
antiX21 on Compaq PIII 1 Ghz DT, w/ Debian, MX18FB, W2K
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#4 Post by RI2CA »

You're so close! I cleaned and lubed the chain on my motorcycle!
seaken64 wrote: Mon Mar 25, 2019 11:13 am Welcome. And now you can use that time you blocked out for something else! Taking out the trash, an oil change, washing the motor cycle, etc.

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#5 Post by Stevo »

Giving us a nice review on Distrowatch would also be a good way to spend that extra time--or making a snapshot of your fresh install as a backup, just in case.

Maybe we need a listicle or Youtube video of "Top Ten Things to do After Installing MX", which would be different from most similar articles, since I think we've already handled by default what most other distros do--but we could cover codec and proprietary driver install, and maybe getting hardware decoded video working, though I only can help with Intel GPUs for that. I now have va-api HWDV working in VLC, QMPlay2, Kodi, MPV, MPC-Qt, and SMPlayer with the mpv backend.
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#6 Post by RI2CA »

I just submitted a review to Distrowatch and made a snapshot!
Stevo wrote: Mon Mar 25, 2019 4:34 pm Giving us a nice review on Distrowatch would also be a good way to spend that extra time--or making a snapshot of your fresh install as a backup, just in case.

Maybe we need a listicle or Youtube video of "Top Ten Things to do After Installing MX", which would be different from most similar articles, since I think we've already handled by default what most other distros do--but we could cover codec and proprietary driver install, and maybe getting hardware decoded video working, though I only can help with Intel GPUs for that. I now have va-api HWDV working in VLC, QMPlay2, Kodi, MPV, MPC-Qt, and SMPlayer with the mpv backend.
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