Support for MX and antiX Linux distros
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Heh, can you describe some examples? :) As in, more like cosmetic issues or some deeper system mishaps that then "magically" self-correct?Arnox wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2025 8:22 pm Do you guys often encounter issues in Linux that pop up once or twice and then completely resolve themselves for good? This has been an odd phenomenon I'm starting to notice across Linux distros.
Yep.BV206 wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2025 1:18 pm Does it count if there is a problem but it doesn't occur again after logout/login or rebooting?
For me personally, there used to be an issue with the MX package manager where when I click on the search box in the Enabled Repos tab, it wouldn't let me type anything until I clicked the package filter dropdown box or just refreshed the package list altogether. Problem later disappeared entirely. Maybe an update fixed it?Nokkaelaein wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2025 5:49 amHeh, can you describe some examples? :) As in, more like cosmetic issues or some deeper system mishaps that then "magically" self-correct?
I think I fixed that in an update, I wish though people reported the problem with steps how to replicate them instead of wishing for the problem to go away by itselfFor me personally, there used to be an issue with the MX package manager where when I click on the search box in the Enabled Repos tab, it wouldn't let me type anything until I clicked the package filter dropdown box or just refreshed the package list altogether. Problem later disappeared entirely. Maybe an update fixed it?
I recall at times having to reinstall Windows 95 multiple times in a day to get the default WordPad behavior back that I liked.
Yes, update fixed that after extensive reports by a few users.Arnox wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2025 7:18 pmFor me personally, there used to be an issue with the MX package manager where when I click on the search box in the Enabled Repos tab, it wouldn't let me type anything until I clicked the package filter dropdown box or just refreshed the package list altogether. Problem later disappeared entirely. Maybe an update fixed it?
Just for fun, I entered this in my DuckDuckGo Browser:DukeComposed wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2025 11:40 pmI recall at times having to reinstall Windows 95 multiple times in a day to get the default WordPad behavior back that I liked.
I also remember situations where I had Linux Mint or Antergos running on (the same) laptop and some quirky problem would show up requiring me to do a little web investigation and find a config file that I could update to make the problem go away. Nothing too major, but always something that would crop up after a week or two of steady use.
I also remember several similar situations with Windows 98, Windows XP, and so forth, that made me scratch my head and wonder how much testing they actually did on their operating system before they started selling it to people.
The answer? A lot. A whole, whole lot.
As it turns out, operating systems are complicated. Like, really complicated. And ensuring flawless performance on a million devices is pretty much impossible unless you're willing to spend billions of dollars to handle the top 80% of use cases, and if you're a major OS manufacturer like Microsoft, that only covers a few hundred million configurations.
When you stop for a second and think about how all of modern computing is based on billions of transistors made out of sand pushing little shocks of lightning through tens of thousands of tiny channels smaller than the width of a human hair, you start to appreciate that fault tolerance is the lowest it's ever been, and still the occasional quirk is going to pop up and annoy you.
Everything around you is a miracle. You have a phone in your pocket you can use to call anyone in the world or look up when any of the Three Stooges died whenever you want. Information from the other side of the planet can reach you in minutes. You have a computer running a free operating system that gives you up-to-the-minute news, sports, and weather. You can play games on it. It will show you pictures of ladies in bikinis, sometimes whether you want it to or not. You can write the next New York Times best seller on it. You can e-mail your mom, or write yourself a letter meant for someone who passed away ages ago. But once in a while the icons aren't exactly where you left them on the Desktop. It happens to me, too.
Have some perspective.
And, almost INSTANTANEOUSLY, this is what I got back:name of paradox or syndrome where expectations grow as things improve
I think that (whole post) was the best thing I've read on a forum in a while
Well... Microsoft DID have a massive testing division and it WAS incredibly good... But then they completely defunded it and pushed testing onto the users instead, leading to much more incredibly broken updates including an update that straight up deleted user files.DukeComposed wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2025 11:40 pm I recall at times having to reinstall Windows 95 multiple times in a day to get the default WordPad behavior back that I liked.
I also remember situations where I had Linux Mint or Antergos running on (the same) laptop and some quirky problem would show up requiring me to do a little web investigation and find a config file that I could update to make the problem go away. Nothing too major, but always something that would crop up after a week or two of steady use.
I also remember several similar situations with Windows 98, Windows XP, and so forth, that made me scratch my head and wonder how much testing they actually did on their operating system before they started selling it to people.
The answer? A lot. A whole, whole lot.
As it turns out, operating systems are complicated. Like, really complicated. And ensuring flawless performance on a million devices is pretty much impossible unless you're willing to spend billions of dollars to handle the top 80% of use cases, and if you're a major OS manufacturer like Microsoft, that only covers a few hundred million configurations.
When you stop for a second and think about how all of modern computing is based on billions of transistors made out of sand pushing little shocks of lightning through tens of thousands of tiny channels smaller than the width of a human hair, you start to appreciate that fault tolerance is the lowest it's ever been, and still the occasional quirk is going to pop up and annoy you.
Everything around you is a miracle. You have a phone in your pocket you can use to call anyone in the world or look up when any of the Three Stooges died whenever you want. Information from the other side of the planet can reach you in minutes. You have a computer running a free operating system that gives you up-to-the-minute news, sports, and weather. You can play games on it. It will show you pictures of ladies in bikinis, sometimes whether you want it to or not. You can write the next New York Times best seller on it. You can e-mail your mom, or write yourself a letter meant for someone who passed away ages ago. But once in a while the icons aren't exactly where you left them on the Desktop. It happens to me, too.
Have some perspective.
I was so happy when Windows 2000 came out so that I could actually use my computer. It wasn't till I tried LINUX again in 2015 after reading the E.U.L.A. of Windows 10 Spyware/Malware Edition 
that I thankfully found out LINUX was fixed to the point that it worked. 
Since then there have been improvements made to LINUX that I don't miss the horrors of Windows but I do miss certain things that won't run on LINUX since there is no LINUX alternative software to update my radar detector and the GPS head unit software for my car. Sadly, 
it seems the developers of WINE and it's derivatives seem to be more concerned in getting Windows software to run on LINUX that have a LINUX alternative instead of coming out with ways to make Windows software to work that the is no LINUX alternative to run on LINUX. 
Perhaps there will come the day these things will work also. 
Only time will tell. Despite these two issues LINUX blows away Windows. 