Thank You ! Thank You ! Thank You to the MX Linux creators/developers/maintainers/admins !

[Bneo]

Thank you , thank you.
A thousand thank yous.

After many long years of going back and forth between Macroshxt Windoze and LINUX, I have finally found my home---> MX Linux.
Kindly let me review my journey of how I got here.

Years ago in 2015 I got fed up with Windoze and Macroshxt's spying and low quality software.
And so I decided to move to Linux. I didn't think it would be that hard. I was wrong.
I settled on Ubuntu since it was the only one I had heard of.
At first i thought it was quite good but then the problems began. Most of them were hardware related.
None of my hardware would work properly. My printer which I need for work, was MIA (missing in action) ,
it would not function under Ubuntu (CUPS) no matter what I tried.
And so after a few weeks I gave up and went back to Macroshxt's Windoze. I was sad.

A few years later and Windoze 10 came along ( I was still using Windoze 7) and I saw all the problems people were having
with constant involuntary updates some of which would break their systems.
The rumors about Windoze 10 spying on people's computer activity were growing and growing.
I decided never to "downgrade" to Windoze 10 and stick with "7".
But my frustration grew and grew.
This took a few more years to build up, until this year, almost 10 years since the time I first tried Linux.

I started with Linux Mint since I consider myself a Linux beginner. It was easy to use but I discovered some glaring privacy concerns with
that build version. Further I realized that it was built on the Ubuntu stream which was promoting Amazon and selling user's search data to 3rd parties.

I decided to ditch Mint and go to KDE Plasma (neon). I didn't know at the time that it was also built on Ubuntu.
I found KDE to be a beautiful distro , very pleasant to work in and highly polished.
However on my system it was slow , and the Ubuntu heritage was still objectionable to me.
And so I switched to the father/mother of all distributions (leaving out Slackware lol) ---> Plain Vanilla DEBIAN.

At first, I loved Debian. It was simple, clean and fast.
I used systemd-analyze and found my system booted in less than 12 seconds.
That was awesome.
But then the problems arose.
My system would freeze up for no reason at all , as far as I could tell.
More than 3 dozen crashes later I narrowed the problem down to the noveau Nvidia driver.
Using Debian to change Nvidia driver's was very frustrating for me so I looked for an alternate solution.

And this is were my sorrow began to turn into JOY ! ---> I found MX Linux.
WOW !
I watched a few hours of video reviews on MX Linux and noted it came with the Nvidia driver installer.
No terminal fiddling needed! (Linux noob that I am).
I saw the beautiful colors and icons that came with MX Linux.
The XFCE desktop environment was exactly what I was looking for.

So... I deleted my Debian partitions and installed MX Linux.
And now a few weeks later, I am so impressed with this distro.
It is everything I was looking for.

I want to thank all of you from MX Linux that worked to make this distro the masterpiece that it really is.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.

I have finally settled down to a home in Linux away from Windoze.

MX Linux is awesome.

[Stevo]

Wait, we could have been making sweet sweet money all this time sell your data to Big Tech?!?

[Arnox]

I also want to echo the same. I have an enormous amount of respect for MX and I dearly hope nothing will happen to the team in the future. If the MX team has to shutter things, it's going to be an extremely sad day for Linux...

[clampett]

^^^^^^^^^ Can we get an Amen!!!!

[artytux]

100% agree with @Bneo and @Arnox , and I know our $ are not BIG but every $ small or big $ donation does help keep our part of LinuxLand on the map.

Wait, we could have been making sweet sweet money all this time sell your data to Big Tech?!?

I have no data , I never existed

[Stevo]

The MX team felt all the same sads when Warren Woodsford sunsetted MEPIS, which is why MX was created to carry on in the first place.

[Freja]

I'm not MX system developer, only Art section person. I attention my creativity to MX user's good experience (not for me).
in other words, effort to the commonweal benefit of MX.

(Stevo Yes, Mepis is plinth of MX in history, I was work for import Mepis full logo (include Circle image) to new MX logo.)
Probably distribution of MX have long long life, This is not Sprinting, is Long full marathon. I (we) need patience and endurance.

[DukeComposed]

I started with Linux Mint

At first, I loved Debian. It was simple, clean and fast.
I used systemd-analyze and found my system booted in less than 12 seconds.
That was awesome.
But then the problems arose.

MX Linux is awesome.

This closely mirrors my own experience with MX Linux. After using a number of different distributions professionally, primarily for server-grade work, in 2017 I made the switch to Linux as a daily driver and, while MX Linux wasn't my first choice, the options for a systemd-free experience rapidly dwindled, and I honestly wish I remembered how MX came across my radar. I gave an 18.2 Xfce ISO a test run and, as they say, that was that. Over the next couple of years, my extensive roster of "just in case" ISOs dwindled. There was no longer any chance I was going to migrate to Slitaz, Rolling Rhino, Nitrux, Mabox, Calculate, Absolute, EasyOS, Porteus, Salix, PeppermintOS, PCLinuxOS, Funtoo (recently discontinued), Redcore, Crux, or Artix, to name a few.

There just wasn't a point in continuing to look for a better bowl of porridge. Is MX perfect? No, of course not. There's a lot of improvement still to be done, and the MX environment clearly isn't ideal for everyone. It's ideal for me, and customizable to the point that I can adapt it to what I need to accomplish every day. That's enough.

I have an enormous amount of respect for MX and I dearly hope nothing will happen to the team in the future.

The MX team does an incredible amount of work and they simply don't get enough recognition for what they do. Lennart Poettering will announce he's decided that systemd needs its own TCP/IP stack and mail server subsystem, and critics will hail it as a much-needed upgrade to a lagging operating system from the 1990s. Meanwhile the MX devs are quietly making Linux, y'know, conveniently usable for users of all ages and skillsets, and there's nary a peep.

[operadude]

To echo some of the previous comments:

Right-On @artytux:

100% agree with @Bneo and @Arnox , and I know our $ are not BIG but every $ small or big $ donation does help keep our part of LinuxLand on the map.

If I'm willing to pay for whatever service that's out there, I feel, given all the TREMENDOUS help I have received from Team MX (including ALL the Developers, Admins, Moderators, Forum Members) that I should, at least, match the most expensive service I pay for.

I mean, if I don't have a working computer system, how can I get ANYTHING done these days?

This doesn't explain my switch from Windows, but you can search my post history as to why I switched, and it is basically the same reasons the OP gave.

Like @DukeComposed, I, too, did some Distro Hopping, and then, Miracle of Miracles, I heard about DistroWatch, and saw MX on the top of the list, gave it a try, and the rest is HISTORY!....DUUUUDE

If it's not clear how much I LOVE & APPRECIATE MX-Linux, and the MX Team (including the Amazing Forum), then please see my concluding remarks at the end of the thread-link below. Pay special attention to "Command #3"

https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.ph ... 8#p687368

===> MX-Linux

[Adrian]

The MX team does an incredible amount of work and they simply don't get enough recognition for what they do.

Oh, yeah... we are accused of manipulated Distrowatch rank and of using AI for reviews.

Are you an AI?