MX Linux Forum

The countdown of last 100 hits for MX to become #1 in DistroWatch default Last 6 months, has started. Manjaro is aware and discussing it.
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-is- ... st-mxlinux

There is an interesting point said in their forum:

We’ll just continue to live as Linux Mint continued to live when Manjaro took its place.
Actually, there is people in the community that are relieved and happy that Manjaro loses “the #1 distro status” and I kinda understand why, it removes a lot of pressure on the distro by not having to deal with the people having über high expectations from “the #1 distro”.

I hope it's not like Michelin guide. You lose one star and you end up hanged at the end of a rope

I love how the responses say "nobody cares". I agree.

It's cool that this is happening, but at the same time I am going: "So?"

Today we're apparently popular, tomorrow might be different. We're not here to be #1 on distrowatch, we're here to serve those who like to use MX

I liked this post!

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-is- ... x/81906/11

I would like to personally welcome our new insect overlords.

I don't really care actually.

Mepis forum was here long before MX. Nothing to do with DW or reviews. It was to help Mepis users.

MX was created in 2014 by fellow Mepis and antiX users to fill the void once it was confirmed Warren wasn't working on Mepis anymore and that Mepis 12 Beta would never be finished. Again, it was for the benefit of the community of Mepis users and then later, MX community.

There was no quest or desire to reach the top of any rankings.

It is of course gratifying that other people recognise the good work of the Devs of MX and antiX. But IMO, recognition is not the primary aim of MX.

What I do hope is for the increased recognition to bring in more MX members who can make contributions to code, packaging, translation, tutorials, artwork, forum support and other areas.

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We'll said.

asqwerth wrote: Tue Apr 09, 2019 5:26 am What I do hope is for the increased recognition to bring in more MX members who can make contributions to code, packaging, translation, tutorials, artwork, forum support and other areas.

This will come, fame has its advantage. I took a quick look what Manjaro did beside a distro. Also they have a history.
I remember, Arch Linux was never in flavor for any fork, so those distros who did were on their own. Some of them did well, particular Manjaro and Antergos. Browsing Manjaro's website, is quite impressive. With the fame, their have their own branded hardware.
https://www.ubuntushop.be/index.php/en/ ... books.html

I care in the sense that MX is not even known to many people. When people ask on different forums "I need a distro that works great as a USB stick, I need persistency, what should I use?" I see a lot of responses but rarely people say "Use antiX or MX" which are the queen and king of distros when it comes to persistency, remastering, creating ISO snapshots. So anything helps even a non-relevant distrowatch ranking that doesn't mean much if it gives MX a bit of more share of mind that's a good thing.

So yeah, it doesn't mean much, but it's still a good thing. We'll attract more trolling for sure too... but hey, that's the price to pay for popularity.

I've got plenty of fishies for them, so.. bring it on

I think Manjaro is a terrific distro, we just have a different user group in mind. Apples and oranges, not bad apples and good apples.