i installed MX and i need some recommendations

[rsotol028]

19.3 32-bit installed
updated from 19.2

recommend me a desktop environment (with size in MB/GB of download if that is possible).
MX is fast but i found the panel is ugly and not working properly. weird thing. but overall system run fast, feels not solid or ecosystem like.
installed dropbox too but not opening.

[JayM]

19.3 32-bit installed
updated from 19.2

recommend me a desktop environment (with size in MB/GB of download if that is possible).

Look in MX Package Installer, Popular Applications tab/Desktop Environments section to see what's available, but be aware that only the flagship version of MX with Xfce and the MX-KDE release are officially supported. Installations that have had a non-standard desktop environments or window managers added are considered to be modified versions of the distro and all help requests should be posted in the MX Modified forum.

MX is fast but i found the panel is ugly and not working properly. weird thing. but overall system run fast, feels not solid or ecosystem like.
installed dropbox too but not opening.

If you want help for problems you're having please post information about the problems that we can use. "Not working properly" tells us nothing. Regarding "the panel is ugly" and "feels not solid or ecosystem like" feel free to try other distros until you find one that you like better. We'll keep this one, just the way it is, thanks.

[rsotol028]

Im just being honest, im a mint user for years but that system becomes slower with updates and i didn't get answers like that.
MX linux is the most popular right now, but seems it is not entirely solid or refined and ecosystem..

i have to install font manager.
gimp is there, good.
change language is the most unlikely thing on MX.
flickery chromium latest version browser.

for now i will use it as a primary OS because the speed in this old 32-bit laptop.

[Michael-IDA]

Im just being honest, im a mint user for years but that system becomes slower with updates and i didn't get answers like that.
MX linux is the most popular right now, but seems it is not entirely solid or refined and ecosystem..

i have to install font manager.
gimp is there, good.
change language is the most unlikely thing on MX.
flickery chromium latest version browser.

for now i will use it as a primary OS because the speed in this old 32-bit laptop.

Hey R,

I have to agree with Jay, you're not winning friends by how you’re posting. If you had specific grievances it’d be one thing, but “seems it is not entirely solid or refined and ecosystem” does not help you. Especially since the MX ecosystem is probably the largest non-systemd ecosystem there is. “MX Forum: Total posts 268772 • Total topics 24212 • Total members 8971”

In reference to your requests...

Another desktop option, Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE), fork of KDE 3.5:

https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/MX_Linu ... 8mostly.29

Un-Bogging down an Older system (applies to any *nix):

https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Tips_An ... der_system

Be Well,
Michael

[Buck Fankers]

Im just being honest, im a mint user for years

Sure, lets be frank. If someone switches to new distro, after years using some other distro, new will feel different, may even feel: "...not entirely solid or refined and ecosystem.."

You have two options now:

1 - learn why we love MX as much as we do (check tools and manual)
2 - nitpick it, trying to make it Mint. Since MX is not Mint, you will eventually give up and left. But in that case, it will be your loss.

For example, do you know, you can with only few mouse clicks make a complete, exact copy of your system, packaged into ISO file. (check: MX Snapshot) Which you can then put on memory stick or any other computer, basically having exact copy of your system on another computer, with all your passwords, emails, settings.... or as Live portable USB system. If there is any other Linux distro you can do this (can you?!? i'm not aware of any), I'm sure steps are much more complicated.

Just for this reason, I can't start using any other Linux flavor than MX. But it is up to you, or you going to try to learn what MX has to offer, or you will leave since this is not your previous distro you are so use to it. Just being honest here.

tl;dr - check out:
a - manual
b - mx tools
c - dolphin oracle videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/runwiththedolphin/videos

[rsotol028]

I saw that mx updated the browsers: firefox and chromium but not to the latest version.....

windy.com can't show in both browsers the satellite view. recommends to upgrade browser in both cases.
ouch!

[JayM]

Windy.com works fine in my Firefox 82.0.3 including the satellite photo. I use it every day to monitor the weather and check for approaching storms. I suggest you disable all of your browser add-ons, clear your cache and cookies, etc.

[figueroa]

19.3 32-bit installed
updated from 19.2

recommend me a desktop environment (with size in MB/GB of download if that is possible).
MX is fast but i found the panel is ugly and not working properly. weird thing. but overall system run fast, feels not solid or ecosystem like.
installed dropbox too but not opening.

Use the default XFCE. It's infinitely configurable to give you almost any look and feel. As the long-time default DE in MX, it's where the most help is also available.

If you've been mucking around with other DEs and WMs and removing packages, you might be in an unstable place and need a clean re-installation.

My personal recommendation if you want an lighter, easy-to-use DE, you might try LXDE from the MX Package Installer, but don't start deleting other components. LXDE is small with a lighter but traditional user interface. On the other hand, you won't find many MX users using LXDE (a few, but not many).

[Stevo]

Your old laptop may not support the new webGL acceleration in browsers, but we can't even start if you won't provide any hardware and driver information.

I see other users with very nice XFCE panels in MX, so it is possible to customize. You can even use your own image as a background.

If you don't like the position, this shows you are complaining without even taking a cursory glance at the FAQS or manual. In that case, I'm sure someone with that attitude will be quite welcome at many other forums instead of ours; I would suggest Arch or Debian.

[subluminal]

For 32-bit system, best browser choice would be Palemoon. Used it for years on my old computer. Even use it now with Firefox and Chromium on my new-ish 64-bit system.

LXDE would perhaps be the lightest *full* DE available. Of course, stand-alone Window Managers would be even lighter.