MX Linux Forum

...well, I guess it's the moment to say hello.

So, I've been happily rocking MX Linux for a whole year. 'Happily' for a reason. I came from Linux Mint, which was a good starting point for me but after some time of usage I found it a bit too limiting. MX just seems to tick all the boxes:

• its Xfce variant uses Debian as a base and not Ubuntu, which I grew to despise,
• the concept of installer looks better to me than this of Mint's - the system installing itself while you can configure some details and the ability to save the live session changes while installing are awesome both on paper and in practice,
• MX Tools make the distro distinctive, especially the snapshot tool which let me clone the exact installation to a different machine,
• the system turned out to be less prone to breakages and serving the older hardware even better than Mint.

Overall, making my first post on this forum, I wanted to thank all the guys involved in this project for making such a good work, which I guess won't let me distrohop for a while... ;P

Thank you for the kind words and welcome to the forum.

MX stopped my distro hopping. I join MX forum at this date and time; Fri Dec 02, 2011 6:17 pm. I believe I was bounces off of four other distro's. Like Lite,Netrunner, Solus and Voyager. All four are great as well. But you hit the spot. MX just fill out all the check marks. Especially MX-Tools. I like the documentation and of course this MX forum. MX forever for me. It hits all the sweet spots for me.

gimcrack wrote: Sat Feb 17, 2024 8:26 am MX stopped my distro hopping.

It has that effect on people.

Periodically I see blogs and YouTube channels pop up of people doing their best to review a different Linux distribution every week or every month. They start trying to build a brand and they strictly create content about testing various Linux flavors and presenting the pros and the cons of the latest releases. These folks always have names like "The Linux Tester" or "Gettin' Linuxed!" and they usually end up going totally radio silent after about 12 months.

I like to think it's because they eventually find MX and decide to quit trying other stuff.

I like to think it's because they eventually find MX and decide to quit trying other stuff.

I have one laptop dedicated to MX Linux and a second dedicated to Mageia Linux.

The other machines? I still test/distro hop. It's fun!

Before Ubuntu made Debian usable by us ordinary mortals ("Linux for Human Beings"®), Mepis had already been doing it quite successfully. But Ubuntu had the backing of a millionaire and so kind of cornered the newbie market.

Now Ubuntu has gotten too big for it's britches, teamed up with Microsoft, and become almost proprietary in it's own right. Yet all the progress made by the Mepis/antiX team was still going on without the "innovations" that have made Ubuntu undesirable for those of us who value rock-solid stability, simplicity, and freedom on a platform and interface that is effortless to use and has a nice easy learning curve.

The Debian base was what brought me over from Linux Mint and Linux Lite to MX-Linux. I quickly went from a merely curious distro-hopper to enthusiastic fanboy.

Artim wrote: Tue Feb 27, 2024 6:47 am Before Ubuntu made Debian usable by us ordinary mortals ("Linux for Human Beings"®), Mepis had already been doing it quite successfully. But Ubuntu had the backing of a millionaire and so kind of cornered the newbie market.

In the era before 8GB USB flash drives came free at the bottom of cereal boxes, Ubuntu had two major advantages that drove its market share. It offered to mail free-as-in-beer CDs to people, and it offered enterprise support contracts through its parent company Canonical. This meant you could install the OS on your laptop (x86, x86_64, *or* macppc IIRC) and put the same OS in its server edition on your big iron at no cost, and you could still pay to get tech support on the servers if something went wrong.

There were a few companies at the time in the same market, notably Red Hat and SUSE, but even Red Hat didn't want to let people run RHEL on their laptops for free, which is how we ended up with Fedora being a separate product.

DukeComposed wrote: Tue Feb 27, 2024 7:08 am but even Red Hat didn't want to let people run RHEL on their laptops for free, which is how we ended up with Fedora being a separate product.

@DukeComposed Didn't SuSE go that route also with OpenSUSE? (I had switched to Slackware long before that happened)
I might still have my SuSE Linux 6.0 disc laying around somewhere. I do have my first ever Linux CD I ever bought, Caldera OpenLinux 1.0.

siamhie wrote: Tue Feb 27, 2024 8:03 am Didn't SuSE go that route also with OpenSUSE? (I had switched to Slackware long before that happened)
I might still have my SuSE Linux 6.0 disc laying around somewhere. I do have my first ever Linux CD I ever bought, Caldera OpenLinux 1.0.

I think openSUSE was from 2006 or 2007. By then Ubuntu had been doing their CD giveaway for a few years at that point. Also, SUSE has never had a very strong presence in the United States, so the story of Canonical's popularity may look a little different in Europe. Personally I still have my Ubuntu free CDs, and last I checked one of them still boots on modern-ish hardware. Unfortunately, my first Linux disc (a Knoppix live CD) is long gone, and I'm pretty sure I'll never see my first hand-made, gifted FreeBSD 3.2 CD-R ever again. I do, however, still have my trusty tomsrtbt floppy diskette.

i better introduce myself as im new here. my name is Steve .
im also from Ubuntu which i used from 2004 'Warty Warthog' then the LTS up until 22.04. i had MX 21 running in Gnome Boxes to have a look for a while.
Ubuntu then moved nearly everything to snaps which i removed entirely but then software become very limited and they seem to have moved away from the Debian way of things.

so when MX 23 was released i installed it with xfce which is the first time i have used that desktop but it works ok, really fast.
so far everything and i mean everything is just working. no problems or headaches. i have enabled systemd as i use it as my DNS resolving/caching server.
i am not a commandline guru so MX tools/tweaks suit me and the way i prefer to do things.

apart from that all i can say is thank you and may i use MX Linux as long, if not longer, then Ubuntu. Cheers Steve ..