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Best review of MX ever (not)
Posted: Sat May 24, 2025 3:50 pm
by anticapitalista
Not to be taken seriously, but I couldn't stop laughing, especially the last line.
This is from DistroWatch Review comments
Used to be a great distro but on the last releases has shown a lack of polish and care that, in my honest opinion, makes it unreliable.
It uses sysvinit, which seems ok; but, while it does use Debian repos, and not Devuan's ones, there are several packages that demand enabling a service that just won't work. For example, input-remapper is unusable on sysvinit sessions. There are several other examples.
Also, the maintainers have done a poor job on their ISO's. Their most recent ISO for the KDE Plasma version was utterly broken, what was acknowledged by them. I could not get a graphical interface booting it. After that, they released a fixed monthly snapshot, keeping the older corrupted ISO version for download.
Finally, there is no secure boot support. While it seems somewhat irrelevant, that is unjustifiable considering that Debian, its base distro, does have that out of the box.
The documentation seems ok, but it is filled up with grammatical errors, which shows a lack of care.
Re: Best review of MX ever (not)
Posted: Sat May 24, 2025 3:52 pm
by AVLinux
Oh boy... *shakes head
If people had any idea how difficult sustaining documentation is they would be thankful for even one sentence (including grammatical errors)..
Re: Best review of MX ever (not)
Posted: Sat May 24, 2025 4:30 pm
by dolphin_oracle
we did not keep the broken KDE iso. just took a minute to get the replacement up...
the error also wouldn't have caused the GUI to not come up, although a new enough graphics part might.
FWIW we found the problem with the KDE iso while making the monthly snapshots. So for about a month no one noticed or reported anything, beyond 2 reports of libavcodec being screwed up, which I thought at first was usual user shenanigans, since it was so odd.
also FWIW input-remapper is perfectly usable, if you actually start the service with either rc.local or some other method. it doesn't have an init script for systemd.
Re: Best review of MX ever (not)
Posted: Sat May 24, 2025 4:33 pm
by Adrian
I guess they are entitled to a refund...
Re: Best review of MX ever (not)
Posted: Sat May 24, 2025 4:35 pm
by CharlesV
Adrian wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 4:33 pm
I guess they are entitled to a refund...
Re: Best review of MX ever (not)
Posted: Sat May 24, 2025 6:18 pm
by arjaybe
A quick read showed four errors in the comment. Lack of care, maybe?
Re: Best review of MX ever (not)
Posted: Sat May 24, 2025 6:34 pm
by Melber
Adrian wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 4:33 pm
I guess they are entitled to a refund...
I propose we refund double what they paid.
Re: Best review of MX ever (not)
Posted: Sat May 24, 2025 8:23 pm
by siamhie
I'm glad I don't have to read those MX is #1 on DistroWatch comments anymore.
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Re: Best review of MX ever (not)
Posted: Sat May 24, 2025 8:35 pm
by uncle mark
siamhie wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 8:23 pm
I'm glad I don't have to read those MX is #1 on DistroWatch comments anymore.
This distro has gone to hell.
Re: Best review of MX ever (not)
Posted: Sat May 24, 2025 9:52 pm
by siamhie
uncle mark wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 8:35 pm
siamhie wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 8:23 pm
I'm glad I don't have to read those MX is #1 on DistroWatch comments anymore.
This distro has gone to hell.
Re: Best review of MX ever (not)
Posted: Sun May 25, 2025 3:49 am
by tascoast
I've keen kidding myself all these years since Mephis!
If the reviewer dropped their text into QuillBot for a grammar check.....