MX Linux Distrowatch #1

[davidy]

Simply amazing that MX has been #1 on distrowatch practically since I started using it. MX is like the glitch in the matrix lol.

[entropyfoe]

Yup, it is amazing, the little distro that could.

By accident I met a guy at work today that uses MX on several machines, he loves it!
What a coincidence.

[Arnox]

Distrowatch popularity ratings have never been any sort of reliable, but regardless... MX Linux is a really damn good distro and if any distro should be #1, it's MX.

[siamhie]

DW's Page Hit Ranking (previously called HPD or Hits Per Day) system is just a measure of individuals visiting that distro's page on DW. Don't take it as a measurement of popularity/best/user base, etc.
Think of it more like that random car crash you happen upon. Everyone is going to slow down and check it out. I discovered MX when I was looking for Debian based distro through a general web
search and not what DW listed.

DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking

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The DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking statistics have attracted plenty of attention and feedback over the years. 
Originally, each distribution-specific page was pure HTML with a third-party counter at the bottom to monitor interest of visitors. 
In May 2004 the site switched from publicly viewable third-party counters to internal counters. This was prompted by a continuous abuse 
of the counters by a handful of undisciplined individuals who had confused DistroWatch with a poll station. The counters are no longer 
displayed on the individual distributions pages, but all visits are logged. Only one hit per IP address per day is counted.

The DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking statistics are a light-hearted way of measuring the popularity of Linux distributions and other free 
operating systems among the visitors of this website. They correlate neither to usage nor to quality and should not be used to measure 
the market share of distributions. They simply show the number of times a distribution page on DistroWatch was accessed each day, nothing more.

The tables below display the average number of page hits for each distribution over a given period of time. To see information on page hit trends 
over a set period of time, please see our Page Hit Ranking Trends page. To see how our readers rank distributions based on visitor-submitted ratings, 
please see our Ranking page.

The figures in the third column of each table represent the average number of hits per day (HPD) for the specified period. 
The tables are updated daily at around 30 minutes past midnight GMT.

[hebelwirkung]

Probably the only thing Distrowatch sort of reliably tells us is that some distros are talked about more often/have a higher profile/benefit from better "propaganda" than others.

I find the page useful simply for an overview of what's out there. Doesn't tell me anything about the quality of individual distros, but I can test them for myself. Recently I retried Manjaro (good but a handful of niggly little problems), Endeavour (kind of okay) and several Mint versions (Cinnamon still feels soooooo rigid and cumbersome, and what's with all the Ubuntu-enforced snap crap?) No way will I give up MX (Xfce) for any of them - in terms of reliability, stability, extra tools, quality of forum and much more good stuff it's unbeatable.

[Arnox]

Cinnamon still feels soooooo rigid and cumbersome,

How so?

[manyroads]

Cinnamon still feels soooooo rigid and cumbersome,

How so?

Personal preferences are always intriguing.

[hebelwirkung]

[Personal preferences are always intriguing.

True, it's a personal preference :-) And to be fair, Mint is, and has been, rock solid, nothing wrong with it on that score at all.

Well it's little things that put me off Cinnamon, like customization which - compared to xfce - seems rather limited, then having to go through half a million steps just to install librewolf so I'm not having to deal with a snap version of firefox. Okay, I guess there's a non-snap one in the repos though I didn't bother to check; plus I spent a couple of years on LMDE years ago, and that became more and more bothersome. So probably my judgment is clouded by past experience and prejudice, but in the end it all boils down to ease and smoothness of use, and in that regard xfce beats the pants of cinnamon. Ram usage too, btw. And MX doesn't force you to go down snap lane like Mint xfce does.

Also there's plain old muscle memory. I'm so used to Xfce now that to get me to be doing things differently, or adjusting to a different DE philosophy, that environment needs to be unbelievably persuasive. And Cinnamon for me just isn't

[Adrian]

I hope we drop from the first place. We've been accused for cheating "how come a distro we never heard of is on the first place" and we attracted a number of trolls because of this stupid rank.

[Mauser]

I hope we drop from the first place. We've been accused for cheating "how come a distro we never heard of is on the first place" and we attracted a number of trolls because of this stupid rank.

Why lower yourself to their level? I wouldn't be concerned about it since that comes from members of a broken Linux distro that is known to have the most dishonest, nasty lying members along with the head developer being the worst of them all. They have absolute zero credibility. They have no room to talk. If anyone who would cheat, it would be them. Why would anyone care about a bunch of losers? Those are the reasons and then some that I don't use that distro anymore and never will, even at gun point. It's not hard to know which distro it is for those that ever tried it. I laugh when they make ludicrous accusations.