Good MX review

[Buck Fankers]

https://www.maketecheasier.com/mx-linux-review/

[Fibogacci]

Review is positive (there is no other way ), but at least second time or more I see a review or video about MX and there is only Synaptic Package Manager mentioned and not MX Package Installer which is the thing which makes a whole difference.

[LU344928]

"And the best distro of 2018 is ...

"Year after year, MX Linux is getting better and better... Just remember that I wasn't too pleased with the early versions of this distro and its predecessors. Which only shows that care and attention and passion can do wonders. Whatever your take from this article is, I suggest you take the freshly coming MX-18 for a spin."

https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/bes ... -2018.html

And:

"Best Xfce distro of 2018...

"And the winner is …

MX Linux once again. I did pay more love and attention to Xfce this year than last year, but the sentiment remains. The Xfce desktop seems to have stalled, and it’s in some odd limbo state, in between leading and following. MX Linux seems to be an exception to this rule. It’s a small distro, but it carries proudly, and comes with lots of goodies. MX Tools and the session save are among the many useful, practical facets, and you don’t get to see these often elsewhere.

"Year after year, MX Linux is improving, becoming nicer, friendlier, more stable, more logical, more everything."

http://www.ocsmag.com/2018/12/05/best-x ... o-of-2018/

[mx-2018]

In my opinion, MX would have been #1 long ago if the default panel bar location was not on the left edge of the screen. Many beginners to Linux come from Windows style menu bar, and the default panel position in MX simply adds to the things a beginner has to get adjusted to.

That was my personal experience when I was trying Linux for the first time. Back then it was MX-15 which looked intimidating to me. Good thing I decided to distro-hop (multi-boot) as I learn more about Linux and revisited MX Linux (current version then was MX-17.1).

[Fibogacci]

In my opinion, MX would have been #1 long ago if the default panel bar location was not on the left edge of the screen. Many beginners to Linux come from Windows style menu bar, and the default panel position in MX simply adds to the things a beginner has to get adjusted to.

That was my personal experience when I was trying Linux for t he first time. Back then it was MX-15 which looked intimidating to me. Good thing I decided to distro-hop (multi-boot) as I learn more about Linux and revisited MX Linux (current version then was MX-17.1).

I gave to my friend MX LInux on USB stick one day. He used it generally for Kodi (from time to time), because his computer had low specification and Windows wasn't enough for video. I don't know if he still uses MX for Kodi (he has newer laptop).

On everyday basis he uses Windows.

And you know what? He changed his panel in Windows for vertical position - because he tried it in MX and prefer it that way.

Conclusion: I don't think so, that vertical or horizontal panel makes (or not) a number 1 position (especially that it can be changed with two mouse clicks).

Well, sure, 'bad' habits from Windows can be some kind of obstacles when changing environment, but this vertical panel is really great 'invention' - in many ways.

[JayM]

A vertical panel does take some getting used to, but anyone who's willing to take a few minutes to explore their OS will do what I did when I was new to MX: try dragging it to the bottom. When that doesn't work they'll right-click it to see if there's a "move" option, and they'll eventually end up in Panel Preferences where they'll see the Mode option with the picklist for deskbar, vertical and horizontal, and also the lock/unlock selection. These took me all of five minutes, probably less, to find after my first MX installation.

The vertical panel makes more sense. Monitors are rectangular, wider than they are tall, so there's less vertical space available. The thickness of the panel takes up some of that precious space that could instead be used for applications. If the panel's on the left, the taskbar takes up some of the horizontal space which is more plentiful.

[Jerry3904]

MX Tweak had a one click panel move feature, of course, but it's hard to get users to look at it in South of the FAQ, the Users Manual, the Welcome screen, etc.

[JayM]

MX Tweak had a one click panel move feature, of course, but it's hard to get users to look at it in South of the FAQ, the Users Manual, the Welcome screen, etc.

Well, this was within 5 minutes of the first time I'd installed MX and I hadn't looked at the manual or wiki or anythng yet, or even explored the various MX tools. I hadn't even run the initial upgrade yet. The very first thing I wanted to do was move the panel to the bottom, like Windows, because that's what I've been used to since Windows 95 was launched (I was actually a beta tester IIRC.) But that's an example of what I was talking about: exploring the OS and finding out about things like that.

[Jerry3904]

Agreed. I was just planning our failure

[Eadwine Rose]

I remember when I first booted MX live back in the day the first thing I did was look through all the settings the the settings screen, what can it all do. Not applying anything just yet, only looking and canceling out of things.

I still, once I have installed, walk through everything in there, something new might magically appear that is now easy to do where in the past I needed to take some other actions for.