MX Linux Forum

Version: 23.4
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-01-13
Votes: 0


After using MX Linux from version 17.1 through the latest versions, I've found that 19.4 locks up about 4 to 5 times per hour, version 23.3 locks up a few seconds after bootup. I've used the xfce version, it freezes less but still enough that using that software is not worth the frustration of freeze-ups. I have erased all my bootup disks, and will be using another distro. Due to having to shutdown my PC using hard power off, all the boot drives (SSDs) are corrupted. Overall, my experience of MX Linux is it’s buggy, slow and has been a pain because of so many errors - trying to update the system and software, trying install and uninstall problems, it’s a frustrating mess. And not worth your time at all to use.

Version: 23.3
Rating: 1
Date: 2024-08-08
Votes: 0


After using MX Linux Xfce from version 17.1 through version 21.3, I've found that 19.4 locks up about 4 to 5 times per hour, version 23.3 locks up (freezes such that CTRL-ALT-DELETE does not restart the PC) 10 or 15 seconds after bootup. I've used the XFCE version (18.3 and 19.4). It freezes less but still enough that using that software is not worth the frustration of freeze-ups.

I have erased all my bootup disks, and will be using another distro. Due to having to shutdown my PC using hard power off -- all the boot drives (SSDs) are corrupted.

Overall, my experience of MX Linux is it’s buggy, slow and has been a pain because of so many errors- trying to update the system and software, trying install and uninstall problems, it’s a frustrating mess. And not worth your time at all to use.

I wonder how many more of these copypaste reviews there are going back.



Pleeeeze don't lock this thread--Need to vent someplace! Though I'm happy to discover this AM the OBS can build my armhf packages again.

lol ... maybe until 66.6

Not copy pasta enough, probably the same user having the same issues (and most likely they are having a hardware issue)

You have no idea how hard I groaned at yet another topic on this. Should have dug deeper than the standard 6 feet I guess.

Actually I think they are comedy gold. Only a simpleton or a Windows fanboy would stay with an OS that repeatedly refuses to function properly. For the rest of us it's schadenfreude.

I wouldn't have stayed with 19.4 if it locked up for me 4-5 times an hour. That reviewer has the patience of a saint! And so totally believable.

Stevo wrote: Sun Jan 19, 2025 12:33 pm I wouldn't have stayed with 19.4 if it locked up for me 4-5 times an hour. That reviewer has the patience of a saint! And so totally believable.

I would not stay with a distro if it locked 4-5 times a month.

antiX quite recently had 2 'reviews' that were identical (both got a 1) about the same version, but one 'review' was posted a month later. So I sent an email to Distrowatch informing them of this 'double post'.
No reply and no deleted post. (1 could have stayed).
Since then I haven't bothered with DW

Adrian wrote: Sun Jan 19, 2025 12:04 pm Not copy pasta enough, probably the same user having the same issues (and most likely they are having a hardware issue)

Though writing "I have erased all my bootup disks, and will be using another distro. Due to having to shutdown my PC using hard power off -- all the boot drives (SSDs) are corrupted", and then writing the exact same thing five months later... raises some questions on what has actually happened, and why they are still at it - despite saying that they are 100% done

In any case, pretty darn sketchy.

anticapitalista wrote: Sun Jan 19, 2025 12:52 pm antiX quite recently had 2 'reviews' that were identical (both got a 1) about the same version, but one 'review' was posted a month later. So I sent an email to Distrowatch informing them of this 'double post'.
No reply and no deleted post. (1 could have stayed).
Since then I haven't bothered with DW

I'm pretty sure you guys get a lot of political hate because you are more active in that respect, don't know why so much hate against MX... I mean, if it works on your machine and you like it -- use it, if it doesn't, use Ubuntu or whatever, no need to be nasty about it...

All varieties of trolls for all motives, reasons, and any lackings thereof.
Could be (and sounds) rather computer illiterate,
Could be seeking a flame war or other attention,
Could be a hired hit job,
Could be drunk and having repeatedly bad days,
Could be someone that got kicked off of MX forum.

Because DW ratings and reviews have been an occasional forum topic, I left my first review there a few days ago.

Nokkaelaein wrote: Sun Jan 19, 2025 12:52 pm Though writing "I have erased all my bootup disks, and will be using another distro. Due to having to shutdown my PC using hard power off -- all the boot drives (SSDs) are corrupted", and then writing the exact same thing five months later... raises some questions on what has actually happened

MX-17 is a little before my time, but I have to guess the default choice of file systems offered in the installer was approximate to ext2/3/4, XFS, JFS, F2FS, btrfs, and FAT32. Of these, only ext2, F2FS, and FAT32 don't offer crash protection through consistency mechanisms such as journaling or copy-on-write. While I've never experimented with F2FS, I can say I tried putting MX on a FAT32 partition last summer and it was unusable.

Of course, I didn't expect it to work and if you set FAT32 as the file system of choice for the root partition in the installer, it will allow the decision but the install will fail.

To put it simply, you have to be doing something that isn't shown in the brochure to end up having a power cycle corrupt your data on a modern Linux box. Either the reviewer experienced a hardware problem and decided to blame the OS, which is all too common, or he installed his machine with, say, ext2, power cycled the machine, saw the fsck, and concluded "my disk must be corrupt". I could expect losing whatever files you were working on at the time, but corrupting multiple drives as this review leads you to believe? Incredible, in the literal sense.

All this assumes, of course, that an anonymous person on a post-shark website I rarely think of and never visit has been completely honest about his experiences and is leaving multiple copy-and-paste 1-star reviews without engaging in any amount of exaggeration or hyperbole whatsoever. To your point, this story seems unlikely. While I'll stop short of saying it flat-out didn't happen, I'll charitably say I suspect the reviewer believes his statements are factual and accurate, but I've been around too long to ignore the fact that some people have a pathological gift for misunderstanding things.

I'm with Eadwine Rose on this one: we should stop discussing DistroWatch reviews as a general custom, and limit conversations about them to the one or two knee-slappers that are bound to crop up every six months or so.

I'm with Eadwine Rose on this one: we should stop discussing DistroWatch reviews as a general custom, and limit conversations about them to the one or two knee-slappers that are bound to crop up every six months or so.

I agree, because trolls want attention and we are feeding them.

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I used to look at Distrowatch, but in the last half-year of so, I've been locked out while using a VPN (Proton), but I could view with the VPN when I used Startpage→ Anonymous View, but I quit using it the past few months as it demands that I either accept everything (cookies, etc.) or "Manage your data" which requires that I scroll and then uncheck about 60 individual items – many in Vendor preferences.

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A GNU website that blocks a VPN – although I suppose that it could be a VPN issue.
Jump through dozens of hoops just to view.

I suppose that they could create more viewer alienation if they really tried to.

Cheers!

It's called "Distro Watch". Distro Review it aint. If your pc's freezing up sounds like you're doing it all wrong lmao.

I have been using linux since 2003. Mandrake was my first distro (because it was the only one I could install). Mepis opened me to the world of Debian. I have had distros freeze up in the past, but never MXLinux. I can remember in the early days of my use of linux, I would have a problem due to my lack of knowledge. I would get on a forum (all puffed up) and complain loudly, and did not want to admit I didn't know what I was doing. I still received many helpful responses. I know I have drifted off topic, but I wanted to add that in. I use a Mate Desktop instead of XFCE, but that is a personal choice for me. MxSnapshot allows me to keep a backup iso.

Guys, it's been fun, but this topic's now closed.