I got tired of LMDE and am a longtime lover of XFCE (though haven’t used it in years) and I gotta say this is a distro that feels like a distinct distro for once. Comes with an amazing set of tools__ the way OpenSUSE does, especially the GUI package manager and the ability to make a bootable live ISO of your running system. Definitely not your normal Debian derivative IMO. Definitely a distro I slept on for a long time. Choice of init system too is chefs kiss for all the systemD haters. The antiX foundation is nice too as I agree on their values 100%, but that distro is too minimal for my needs.
MX is my distro of choice.
For most common tasks, I can easily pop open either a command line or a GUI, depending on my mood.
It’s like the REM of Linux distros: it can appeal to all different kinds of users, and of all different skill levels. Plus, it’s not a resource hog.
I have one antiX laptop - an old Chromebook with limited storage and low power. My gaming PC in the living room runs Bazzite. And I test plenty of other distros.
But for my general purpose computers, I keep going back to MX with either Plasma or XFCE.
Plus, I love hitting F4 for the drop-down console.
Drop down console is one of the things I absolutely love about MX, so much so that I had to install guake on my desktop I switched over to mint. I’m not sure I could go back to not having a drop down console.
Yakuake user here. Drop down terminal is my favorite terminal experience.
That’s the reason why I installed guake. I have yakuake on my laptop and tried it on mint when I switched on my old desktop, but there were some text issues I was too lazy to fix. Guake has been just as good for my use case, but either way I love both.
I know it’s actually terminal, but I can’t help call it console after years of Quake and other games.
I used MX for a handful of years after CrunchBang ceased development. I decided to migrate to just a core Debian install at a certain point, when I realized I was basically installing custom everything, and wasn’t really using MX the way it was probably intended.
It’s a good, mid-weight choice. Nothing negative to say about it.
Yep, same here. I went to MX after starting with Ubuntu. Now I’m a Debian guy.
I left for Void at the beginning of the year, and it knocked my socks off.
Been using it for a while, first with XFCE and just recently rebuilt with Plasma.
Hopped a lot before arriving at MX, stayed because it just works, does everything I need and more without issues.
I’m surprised to see comments of people actually using it. I know it’s been topping distrowatch forever by inflation numbers.
I have an elderly Lenovo Yoga running it as my daily driver. Boots fast and gets everything done what I need.
There’s always Devuan if you want Debian before Debian moved to systemd.
Have been using it enthusiastically for a good while now. It’s got a nice balance between useable out of the box and having all the tweak ability.
Can’t recommend it enough.
I’ve used it in the past and its awesome. It works very well even on ancient hardware and is a fully functioning OS even if you never install it and just run it in live mode. Its basically a computer you can keep on your keychain and run on anything.
Hm? They were Systemd-only for a while but brought back choice of inits recently?
Well, let’s see how this goes. From what i understand, distros are either Systemd-only, no-Systemd or a mess of shims and wrappers.
or a mess of shims and wrappers.
That’s called “sysv init”.
There’s also runit, s6, dinit and more, just so you know.
At first i thought you meant just choosing an init with the installation ISO like Artix, but according to the article you can choose an init at boot, that’s pretty cool.
MX on a laptop. It just works™. I have Artix (Dinit) on my PC. Also happy as a clam with that. My only regret is not switching sooner.
I tried it on my main desktop after dumping windows. Tried ot along with CachyOS and Bazzite.
CachyOS was too bleeding edge for me.
MX was very easy to work with, but I could not get a lot of my gaming stuff working with my limited skills. Things like HDR was not working well on my monitor, everything just looked washed out. Could not get it converted to Wayland, etc. It did not support 5.1 audio over Spidif on my sound card.
Settled on Bazzite with plasma which was similarly stable, while having the gaming, display and audio stuff correctly configured out of the box.
I’m currently in the process to switching over to it.
