Shifted to MX Linux, based on Debian, with Xfce desktop. Looks not bad in my opinion, but let's see how it goes. [@thelinuxEXP](https://mastodon.social/@thelinuxEXP) [@[email protected]](https://lemmy.ml

Pradeep Malarvannan · 2 years ago

Shifted to MX Linux, based on Debian, with Xfce desktop. Looks not bad in my opinion, but let's see how it goes. [@thelinuxEXP](https://mastodon.social/@thelinuxEXP) [@[email protected]](https://lemmy.ml

@[email protected] · 2 years ago

Wow didn’t know there was a Twitter distro.

eroc1990 · 2 years ago

You made me exhale heavily through my nostrils. Well played.

Pradeep Malarvannan · edit-2 2 years ago

@erezac lol🤣. But it seems like a good Debian based os by some people.

Pradeep Malarvannan · 2 years ago

@thelinuxEXP @[email protected] @[email protected] @debian A small update. For some reason, MX Linux has a lot of issues while installing software like RStudio, Discord etc. If I can’t fix those somehow, I might hop distro again.

Pradeep Malarvannan · 2 years ago

@thelinuxEXP @[email protected] @[email protected] @debian
Update: Switched to Lubuntu to have an experience of LXQT. Let’s hope it doesn’t have those issues.

Papamousse · 2 years ago

I can tell you, I’m using it for 5+ years, after years of Ubuntu.

MX is fantastic, I’m using it on laptops and my main PC (AMD 5600H) with the AHS version. Everything works fine, super stable, it’s on my work PC for years and I’m using it 8h/day.

Just modify the panel (taskbar) to have something like a good old taskbar with icon/title of windows, and it’s basically this.

Support forum is also pretty good if you have any problem.

packetloss · 2 years ago

Honest question, but why not just install Debian with the Xfce DE? Why rely on a fork for updates?

From what I can tell both by testing MX Linux and by reading about it, it’s nothing more than Debian with a few pre-installed packages and some customization. All of which could be done on Debian directly without much trouble.

Pradeep Malarvannan · 2 years ago

@packetloss I’ll look into it. Thanks for letting me know

packetloss · 2 years ago

Not saying you have to or anything, and I can understand and respect using something like MX Linux to save time on the customization. Just know that because it’s based on Debian, any core OS updates will be delayed while the MX team rebases them into their fork.