MX Linux 23 Featured on Learn Linux TV

[Arnox]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1sE6LDTwdw

Always nice for MX to get more recognition. <3

[FullScale4Me]

Jay is also the author of the "Mastering Ubuntu Server - Fourth Edition" book.

[artytux]

Good to watch a review that mirrors my time using MXL 23.2 now started on MXL 21 about 11months ago and very happy with MXL.

So many positive comment are always valuable.

[Arnox]

Jay is also the author of the "Mastering Ubuntu Server - Fourth Edition" book.

Funnily enough, he also did a video semi-recently slamming Ubuntu and like distros. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqfyM7zE6KM

[siamhie]

Not a bad review but I did make a comment (@Siamhie) about the upgrade path (6 minute mark).

[FullScale4Me]

Jay is also the author of the "Mastering Ubuntu Server - Fourth Edition" book.

Funnily enough, he also did a video semi-recently slamming Ubuntu and like distros. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqfyM7zE6KM

Yes, and about his book - he's said a Fifth edition from him is not likely.

[m_pav]

Not a bad review but I did make a comment (@Siamhie) about the upgrade path (6 minute mark).

Saw that, glad you responded else I would have because it appears he was more than a little fixated on it.

[Mauser]

The upgrade of MX Linux option missing that you mention is the only thing I find missing and I hope one day they figure out how to add that option. The only time there is an upgrade option is that version of Linux is based on the same Debian version. I have suggested the MX Linux developers reach out to other developers of other Linux distros that have an upgrade option that are based off of Debian on how it's done, but I don't know what ever became of it.

[artytux]

Is that all that important the upgrade when some have a separate /home on the installs for that as a workaround ?

[DukeComposed]

Is that all that important the upgrade when some have a separate /home on the installs for that as a workaround ?

Having finally watched the video, I think the answer is "it depends". If all you do is install some software from official repositories, do some browsing, and enjoy playing Swell Foop while you wait for "apt-get upgrade" to finish, installing the next version of MX on top of your old install, preserving /home, and then re-installing those user-installed packages is probably not a big deal. You're likely to not even lose your bookmarks.

On the other hand, MX and its upstream distro Debian sometimes make fairly significant changes in, say, calendar panel programs, so your desktop may end up looking different or being broken in some unpredictable way. Having a separate /home partition doesn't matter as much because you're still going to end up with whatever the new desktop settings are and you'll want to bring over your old user configs in piecemeal fashion.

Where having a separate space on the disk for /home really matters is when you're reinstalling, and the minstall tool can reuse the existing /home mountpoint without you needing to recreate anything except usernames and credentials.