Where MXLinux is cheesy (This is where you are wrong)

[j2mcgreg]

@remfan1994 wrote:

The manual is hard to look at, even with inverted color mode (qpdf). The white/black black/white contrast is too high. ...
I used to get past this with text-based documents and low-contrast color configurations on terminals, however, your use of a pdf precludes this technique.

So change the theme.

No offence intended, but you need to pick another distro. It's obvious that the way we have structured MX doesn't suit your sensibilities. There are 99 other distros listed on Distrowatch and surely one of them is going to be a better choice for you.

[Kester]

@kreemoweet : I drifted into MX-Linux 14 months ago and discovered it was the operating system for me. It's certainly not cheesy unlike the Microsoft product, which might be likened to Emmental, it's so full of holes.

There is a story about a Swiss cheese that was discovered in a pantry by four mice which were going to share it. One, the more mathematical one, claimed the holes amounted to one quarter of the cheese. They argued but the mathematically minded mouse was adamant. Suddenly the household cat appeared and the mice quickly scattered and hid. A little while later, when the coast was clear the mice returned to the cheese one by one. The mathematically minded mouse, always a bit more scared than the others was last on the scene to discover no cheese left. "How unfair!", the animal exclaimed, "you've eaten it all". "Oh no", claimed the other three, "we shared it fairly and divided it into four - yours is the quarter that is the holes."

[lars_the_bear]

Besides tthat, I don't believe there is any reason different window managers constitute reasons for different ISOs and versions.

As I understand it, these differences are not just in window manager, but in a bunch of different graphical desktop components. MX Linux isn't the only distribution to do this. Fedora, for example, has different 'spins' with different desktop environments. Ubuntu has 'flavours'. I don't know how this works in MX, but the Xfce4 'spin' of Fedora is a very different beast from the Gnome variant, and it seems to me to make good sense that there are different installation images.

BR, Lars.

[aika]

What counts to a fixed method for all distributions is subjective. Thank God there is a Linux basic order. If you're bored, you can arrange Downloads and Desktop folders where regular Linux users won't immediately find them. Since I don't like exotic settings and am too lazy to search, I always use Xfce on all Linux distributions.

[asqwerth]

People like different user interfaces. I don't think different desktop environments and/WM are a minor thing to users. And some want fluxbox for less resource consumption, sometimes (not always) because their hardware is older/weaker.

MX tries to be newbie friendly. So we offer 3 different DE/WM with varying levels of flashiness and/or resource consumption.

I can't believe that someone would object or criticise that. Plus, KDE was the original DE that Mepis (our spiritual predecessor) used. So there is some history there as well.

PS. As far as I can recall (though I might be wrong), archbang was not related to crunchbang, which I used to use from 2009 to its end. The former was created by Arch users who were lovers of its aesthetics and of Openbox.

[Adrian]

I dislike thread tiles that waste everybody's time.

[siamhie]

it seems so all-important to the distribution scheme between this XFCE/KDE/Fluxbox hype. Surely one version is enough, or perhaps different and better reasons for alternate versions.

I can only comment on the fluxbox side of this. Install fluxbox on ANY other distro and you will have the vanilla version of fluxbox from 2015 (1.3.7) compared to the MX fluxbox desktop (1.3.7+git20220731).
The amount of customization done to the desktop along with all the patches Mathias Gumz (and other fluxbox developers) have published to the fluxbox git site since 2015 has been added to the MX version
which is up to July 2022 makes MX fluxbox short of a desktop environment.

Just my two cents from a fluxer since 0.1.14 (2002).