Are the yearly? updates any hassle ? How fast to they go usually ? If you have the home directory on another partition, do you really need the backup+restore part, instead of just reformat + install + install packages ?
@@Winnetou17 Updates are very fast, according to Debian schedule. There is a large selection of software (DEB, Flatpak). You can choose newer kernel versions (Debian backports and Liquorix). On Huawei Matebook D16 (2020) laptop, the system occupies 1 GB of RAM with Xfce. The home partition is separated and I don't need a separate part for backup and restore. Once a month I take a snapshot of the system on an external drive. Reinstalling from a snapshot takes 10 minutes while preserving all files and settings. I don't know any other distro with such features. In my opinion, MX is really No.1.
MX Linux with KDE Plasma is much better than the Xfce version. I am using it right now and I used it before too, the 22 version for 1 year, then jumped for 1 year on tumbleweed then back to MX 23. It just works man, super stable, no issues and, of course, I don't do any gaming at all. But if they did not have KDE Plasma, I would be on something else. Take for example Opensuse Tumbleweed, it's stable, it's rolling release, but its GUI is ancient-like and hard to understand and use, like why YAST has the same interface for the updates with the one for installation but they have to be accessed differently with different buttons .. why 🤷♂🤷♂ Yes it sucks that once every 2 years you have to reinstall the OS, but this is a distro for conservative usages with like-minded people. Btw, I am using it on a i5 PC from 2020.
@@sub-harmonik It does not look bad. Take for instance his distro CachyOS with CachyOS KDE theme it's IMO even uglier than MX default theme. I use Arc dark theme, which IMO is still the best looking theme.
Xfce is designed to run on pretty much minimum graphics hardware, so yes, I would imagine KDE and Gnome both, with there over abundance of glitz and glitter, would appear to be better - whatever "better" is supposed to mean.
@@A1RM4X Try AntiX for Atom cpu. I installed it on a N270 with 1.5g ram and it was playing RUclips videos in firefox with no issue and loaded fast. Similar to MX Linux but lighter.
I absolutely adore Mx Linux. It just works on most devices. I do agree however that it feels a tad dated on certain aspects but I think with just someone work on the user experience it could really be perfect
when I was looking for a personal-use daily distro for a cheap laptop a couple of years ago I did research and decided on xfce mx-linux. I have no regrets, but it is good to be able to config some things yourself (and now it might even be more user-friendly). For users migrating from mac or windows there are choices that are more user/gui-intuitive the thing about linux is that every app has it's own config schema/format to learn. To have at least the basic stuff in gui menus makes things much easier and user-friendly. Personally I like the look of mx-linux, but I did have the border-resize issue. From what I've heard that's more of a WM/xfce issue than an mx-linux issue though.
I'm aware that CLI can be much more powerful, but GUI's give a visual understanding of what's possible. It's like mapping out what options you have available. And I bet you even Roman generals drew maps in the dirt..
MX Linux does very well in old laptops that have the limitation of 2/4 GB RAM. For example, if I were to give an old PC to a relative, I would install MX Linux. A few years ago my daughter used to do school video lessons with an old laptop from the year 2009 with MX Linux, and it was very stable because it is based on stable Debian, instead before I had Linux Mint and when updating the kernel, it would sometimes crash. Now I don't like MX Linux has too much too much preinstalled software. Now I have several desktop PCs at home in one I use stable Debian (Ryzen 7 5700x) in another mini Itx PC with Ryzen 7 5700G I installed CachyOS and in the 'other PC with Ryzen 5 5600G + GTX 1080 I installed Endevaour OS
This was the first Distro able to detect my hardware, that doesn´t require an entire IT degree just to install. If someone wants to be an pseudo elitist tech user in an irrelevant niche, there´s enough options out there for that.
@@A1RM4X I tried mint before as serious replacement, because it´s getting shoved into everyone´s face as the "go to windows replacement." It didn´t detect my 4070 at all and had a hard time utilizing my Ryzen 7600 to full extend. Neither worked my sensors or pwm fans. I also played around with ubuntu on my old laptop but it was rather confusing and time consuming, so I didn´t kept going with it.
@@Mightydoggo Well, those issues seems related to the kernel version and nvidia drivers version... You might have switched to Linux Mint while your recent hardware was not fully supported at the time (which can happen on every distros). IE I installed Linux Mint 22 2 weeks ago and my RTX 4090 was recognised without any issue (same for the sensors). I understand your appeal for MX Linux but there is a reason why Linux users (or pseudo elitist tech user as you like to call them) are praising Mint over other distros for beginners... Having to backup all your data and having to start fresh for a basic version upgrade with MX Linux is / will be an issue for most of them.
As a Retro person myself I recommend everyone to install Mx Linux, and yes even in my modern PC I run Mx Linux... People saying about MX Linux is good only for old and bad laptops are delusionals in my opinion... I think everyone is free to decide how they are going to use the OS.
100% agree with you. MX Linux is perfect for my old laptop. I tried 8 distros just to see what worked best on it, and mx won. Debian wouldnt install, and Mint was no good to me because it wouldnt read my old ntfs backup drives. mx is a bit too cluttered, but im getting used to where to find things. function is most important so I am happy with it. I tried the kde version but went back to xfce, i dont need pretty. For now I use Zorin on my desktop PC. Over the years Ive used many distros but Zorin is so easy after several years of windows only. My next task is to pick a super light distro for my old tablets ;-)
I dabble in Linux on old devices. Most distros seem to work until they break. MX Linux is one that worked the longest for me without breaking and needing to reinstall. So far, Mint is the only one I have been able to upgrade without a full reinstall (although there were Kernel issues I had to learn to upgrade so I could keep sound).
I had a weird problem with CachyOS yesterday. Grim Dawn would not run for anything at my friend's house. it would run at my house. he told me to install Ubuntu with the budgie desktop environment because it's more stable and Ubuntu is better supported. I could not use budgie. it didn't show a install complete window after the first install. the second install, after the reboot, it stayed on a blank screen. I installed Kubuntu 24.04 LTS and it works.
steam wouldn't show on Kubuntu, but I found out, if you start steam in terminal, then turn off the setting in steam for GPU acceleration in web browsing, it will work with a normal start.
If one does a video with references to the distro watch rankings, it's highly recommended to know how these rankings function. Without knowing this, suffice to say, mums the word on the subject. Other than that, we are all free to have opinions on likes and dislikes.
About version to version upgrades: quote: Probably not, average person will need to reinstall every 4 years or so (when the version stops being supported). MX21 is supported till 2026... Adrian MX Linux dev. I disagree about the theming because for instance CachyOS KDE theme is even worse. I don't use the default theme BTW on MX, but Arc dark. What's wrong with a PDF user manual? Quote: The DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking statistics are a light-hearted way of measuring interest in Linux distributions and other free operating systems among the visitors of this website. They correlate neither to usage nor to quality and should not be used to measure the market share of distributions. They simply show the number of times a distribution page on DistroWatch was accessed each day, nothing more.
manjaro definitely doesn't deserve to be ranked this high that crap is unstable af when i was trying to daily drive it before i switched to arch it broke almost every time i updated
Stable, easy to install, runs on weaker hardware, few issues, good toolbox. Is it specifically for gamers? No. Perfect out of the box for content creation? Also, no. But few Linuxes are better for first-time users and if you just want to extend the usable lifespan of an older system you have lying around.
There are so many Linux distro's to choose from,Windows users are better off using Mint or Ubuntu,Linux users that know the score will be happy with MX Linux. I have used most of the popular Linux distro's over the years and MX Linux is excellent. Don't blame MX Linux for being number one on Distrowatch you should blame Distrowatch itself. The listing is nothing to do with most popular distro but most clicked on for interest not necessarily to install it.Ok do you understand now,Distrowatch is at fault not MX Linux.
This selfproclaimaed "linux expert" french man allways harassing every distro wich is not Cachyy os ,This guy knows just one thing Cachy OS is the god of the linux systems.He have no clue for ex. that MX if you use the AHS (advanced hardware support )version will install kernel 6.9 lyquorix and a newest nvidia driver he knows just Cachy os is the best .BTW he failed to install even Vanilla OS 2 on his computer a few days ago but he is an expert just like the oter guy Chris Titus.
@nukblack6509 Haters gonna hate... You really thought that a most modern kernel and updated drivers would have solved all the issues I mentioned in this video? Also, for VanillaOS 2, it is a known bug by their dev team. Nobody with my hardware can boot the installation ISO until they fix it. FACT: github.com/Vanilla-OS/nvidia-image/issues/38 Thanks for watching and commenting my videos though! Take care bud =)
I thinking about install that system on usb drive as light and well and functionall, it seems. I have installed on usb drive kubuntu with kde and that was a bad idea (sluggish, buggy, overweighted)
This is crazy me being new to Linux i found out about mint and it revived my 10 year old laptop and on my gaming pc i just switched to catchyos and I thought catchyos was complex
It's not. It's not as a good of a distro to deserve such hype. It looks like made by someone who thought "you know what if we put everything this will be hit". In real life it is an incoherent mishmash of Linux based tools.
MX works great for me. I'll bet most people don't have the latest hardware and require up to the minute updates. MX effortlessly detected my home network Brother printer, better than antiX, openSUSE, endeavour, void, and nitrux. I'll probably always be a Linux noob and that's ok. Complaining how a desktop on a distro looks seems pointless, cuz Linux is easily configurable. I like kde and xfce (current DE). Gnome isn't for me. My preferred vpn, Protonvpn is flawless on MX, unlike issues on other distros. That's a biggie for me.
Great review but the fact that you nearly dont have to use terminal on this distro is a disadvantage in the long run if you switching to linux from windows and are planning to stay on it
Not only is it a disadvantage, but I would even argue that so many GUI applications can be overwhelming for new users. IMO, it's better to go in the terminal for the 1 or 2 things you need to change/fix than look at 500 options spread across 5 applications with 20 menus each...
@@JoaoSilva-xj4uu No. That might be true for those of any technical bent but for non-techies the terminal is an absolute No-go. Show the terminal to a non-techie and they real reject the distro - end of. The terminal TERRIFIES them and they are convinced they will destroy their laptop if they use it. GUI is the only way for them. I suspect using XFCE leads to 20 different apps for configs. I got with KDE where everything is in System settings with a couple of extra - very useful - tools from the MX Team themselves. If one of my non-techie converts whatsapps me with a problem (often "How can I have this feature?") I can literally just type back the setting setting to click on KDE System settings. That's why I give KDE to new users and it has proven a smart choice. People are never satisfied, however. With KDE 5, which MX Linux still uses, everyone complained that too many settings were in sight confusing users and leading to fear. So with KDE 6 the KDE team moved many settings into more hidden away locations, out of sight. So now people complain that KDE makes accessing advanced settings hard which is what they 'wanted' before! There is always a trade off!
Ma boy Arch ranked lower than Gentoo on Distrowatch. How and why? Then they got CachyOS ranked lower than Debian which is again higher than openSUSE as well. And how the heck is Manjaro so high? Cachy defeats it both in user-friendliness and performance, I'm scared to mention stability there cuz this one is arguable in Manjaro. I don't understand their point of view.
@@Ud4cznik Well, to be fair, the ranking is clearly very biased on whomever visits Distrowatch, so clearly it has a weird ranking, given that that website is not an essential website that all Linux users visit daily. Unfortunately we don't really have much better insight than that. By the nature of Linux, some people will never appear in some statistics, either because they don't go/use that/there or because they don't want to be tracked/provide telemetry/participate in a survey.
I wonder why they used a PDF when an interactive HTML document would suffice. Maybe the PDF is in case the user wants to print it out for safekeeping but thats a stretch
MX its a weird distro. I've started using linux from beginning this year and tested MX Linux, what a disappointment. Now i'm using Linux Mint + TKG Kernel, its the best experience i got till now.
never get why is mx linux on number 1 distrowatch that rank seems rigged everyone i know and watch on internet either use arch, mint or fedora literally nobody use mx, and i personally find it mediocre
@@alejandroespalter2601 Hey man, I'm happy to tell you that over here in hell there's plenty of light and not so much darkness. From all this fire and lava that's mostly everywhere.
@@alejandroespalter2601 Or people slowly realize that the quality of these distro reviews are more and more poor and lacuster Testing and comparing distributions based on 2 or 3 game benchmarks sorry to say it but is a shame.A time ago i was subscriber of his chanel but i cancelled my subscription and now i'm coming here just to laugh how "smart" this guy is.
Definitely, MX should not be in the top 3; Linux Mint is by far the best. However, for performance and benchmarking, having the latest kernel and drivers is not a major factor; all of them are suitable for gaming. Tests have shown that using optimized packages (x86-64-v3 and -v4) does not significantly improve performance.
I like MX, it's my daily driver since MX-19 version. So far, so good.
Are the yearly? updates any hassle ? How fast to they go usually ? If you have the home directory on another partition, do you really need the backup+restore part, instead of just reformat + install + install packages ?
@@Winnetou17 Updates are very fast, according to Debian schedule. There is a large selection of software (DEB, Flatpak). You can choose newer kernel versions (Debian backports and Liquorix). On Huawei Matebook D16 (2020) laptop, the system occupies 1 GB of RAM with Xfce. The home partition is separated and I don't need a separate part for backup and restore. Once a month I take a snapshot of the system on an external drive. Reinstalling from a snapshot takes 10 minutes while preserving all files and settings. I don't know any other distro with such features. In my opinion, MX is really No.1.
Me too. I use it as the daily driver on my main machine. I have been trying out LMDE on some of my other machines and it is really very good.
There is AV Linux, which is based on MX Linux, that is centered around content creation.
MX Linux with KDE Plasma is much better than the Xfce version. I am using it right now and I used it before too, the 22 version for 1 year, then jumped for 1 year on tumbleweed then back to MX 23.
It just works man, super stable, no issues and, of course, I don't do any gaming at all. But if they did not have KDE Plasma, I would be on something else.
Take for example Opensuse Tumbleweed, it's stable, it's rolling release, but its GUI is ancient-like and hard to understand and use, like why YAST has the same interface for the updates with the one for installation but they have to be accessed differently with different buttons .. why 🤷♂🤷♂
Yes it sucks that once every 2 years you have to reinstall the OS, but this is a distro for conservative usages with like-minded people. Btw, I am using it on a i5 PC from 2020.
Thanks for your feedback. I should have gave KDE a spin to see how it felt. Maybe for the release of the 24 version!
I use mx-linux and xfce bc it's lightweight and doesn't look bad imo.
@@sub-harmonik It does not look bad. Take for instance his distro CachyOS with CachyOS KDE theme it's IMO even uglier than MX default theme. I use Arc dark theme, which IMO is still the best looking theme.
Xfce is designed to run on pretty much minimum graphics hardware, so yes, I would imagine KDE and Gnome both, with there over abundance of glitz and glitter, would appear to be better - whatever "better" is supposed to mean.
MX is good for Atom netbooks with a 32 bit UEFI.
I used it to revive my friend's crappy old netbook.
Fair point!
@@A1RM4X Try AntiX for Atom cpu. I installed it on a N270 with 1.5g ram and it was playing RUclips videos in firefox with no issue and loaded fast. Similar to MX Linux but lighter.
I absolutely adore Mx Linux. It just works on most devices. I do agree however that it feels a tad dated on certain aspects but I think with just someone work on the user experience it could really be perfect
I wish they at least switched from pure SysVinit to OpenRC.
when I was looking for a personal-use daily distro for a cheap laptop a couple of years ago I did research and decided on xfce mx-linux. I have no regrets, but it is good to be able to config some things yourself (and now it might even be more user-friendly).
For users migrating from mac or windows there are choices that are more user/gui-intuitive
the thing about linux is that every app has it's own config schema/format to learn. To have at least the basic stuff in gui menus makes things much easier and user-friendly.
Personally I like the look of mx-linux, but I did have the border-resize issue. From what I've heard that's more of a WM/xfce issue than an mx-linux issue though.
I'm aware that CLI can be much more powerful, but GUI's give a visual understanding of what's possible. It's like mapping out what options you have available. And I bet you even Roman generals drew maps in the dirt..
MX Linux does very well in old laptops that have the limitation of 2/4 GB RAM. For example, if I were to give an old PC to a relative, I would install MX Linux. A few years ago my daughter used to do school video lessons with an old laptop from the year 2009 with MX Linux, and it was very stable because it is based on stable Debian, instead before I had Linux Mint and when updating the kernel, it would sometimes crash. Now I don't like MX Linux has too much too much preinstalled software. Now I have several desktop PCs at home in one I use stable Debian (Ryzen 7 5700x) in another mini Itx PC with Ryzen 7 5700G I installed CachyOS and in the 'other PC with Ryzen 5 5600G + GTX 1080 I installed Endevaour OS
This was the first Distro able to detect my hardware, that doesn´t require an entire IT degree just to install.
If someone wants to be an pseudo elitist tech user in an irrelevant niche, there´s enough options out there for that.
For science, what other distros did you try and what piece of hardware is causing you problem?
@@A1RM4X I tried mint before as serious replacement, because it´s getting shoved into everyone´s face as the "go to windows replacement."
It didn´t detect my 4070 at all and had a hard time utilizing my Ryzen 7600 to full extend. Neither worked my sensors or pwm fans.
I also played around with ubuntu on my old laptop but it was rather confusing and time consuming, so I didn´t kept going with it.
@@Mightydoggo Well, those issues seems related to the kernel version and nvidia drivers version... You might have switched to Linux Mint while your recent hardware was not fully supported at the time (which can happen on every distros). IE I installed Linux Mint 22 2 weeks ago and my RTX 4090 was recognised without any issue (same for the sensors).
I understand your appeal for MX Linux but there is a reason why Linux users (or pseudo elitist tech user as you like to call them) are praising Mint over other distros for beginners... Having to backup all your data and having to start fresh for a basic version upgrade with MX Linux is / will be an issue for most of them.
As a Retro person myself I recommend everyone to install Mx Linux, and yes even in my modern PC I run Mx Linux... People saying about MX Linux is good only for old and bad laptops are delusionals in my opinion... I think everyone is free to decide how they are going to use the OS.
For content creation, if one is a non-gamer, how about AV Linux, which is a MX Studio distro? Have you tried it? Can you do a review?
100% agree with you. MX Linux is perfect for my old laptop. I tried 8 distros just to see what worked best on it, and mx won. Debian wouldnt install, and Mint was no good to me because it wouldnt read my old ntfs backup drives. mx is a bit too cluttered, but im getting used to where to find things. function is most important so I am happy with it. I tried the kde version but went back to xfce, i dont need pretty. For now I use Zorin on my desktop PC. Over the years Ive used many distros but Zorin is so easy after several years of windows only. My next task is to pick a super light distro for my old tablets ;-)
I dabble in Linux on old devices. Most distros seem to work until they break. MX Linux is one that worked the longest for me without breaking and needing to reinstall. So far, Mint is the only one I have been able to upgrade without a full reinstall (although there were Kernel issues I had to learn to upgrade so I could keep sound).
I had a weird problem with CachyOS yesterday. Grim Dawn would not run for anything at my friend's house. it would run at my house. he told me to install Ubuntu with the budgie desktop environment because it's more stable and Ubuntu is better supported. I could not use budgie. it didn't show a install complete window after the first install. the second install, after the reboot, it stayed on a blank screen.
I installed Kubuntu 24.04 LTS and it works.
steam wouldn't show on Kubuntu, but I found out, if you start steam in terminal, then turn off the setting in steam for GPU acceleration in web browsing, it will work with a normal start.
If one does a video with references to the distro watch rankings, it's highly recommended to know how these rankings function. Without knowing this, suffice to say, mums the word on the subject. Other than that, we are all free to have opinions on likes and dislikes.
Fluxbox is a window manager,one of the old floating ones like IceWM and JWM(which Puppy linux still ships in most versions)
About version to version upgrades: quote: Probably not, average person will need to reinstall every 4 years or so (when the version stops being supported). MX21 is supported till 2026... Adrian MX Linux dev. I disagree about the theming because for instance CachyOS KDE theme is even worse. I don't use the default theme BTW on MX, but Arc dark. What's wrong with a PDF user manual?
Quote: The DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking statistics are a light-hearted way of measuring interest in Linux distributions and other free operating systems among the visitors of this website. They correlate neither to usage nor to quality and should not be used to measure the market share of distributions. They simply show the number of times a distribution page on DistroWatch was accessed each day, nothing more.
You can upgrade mx-linux major versions without reinstalling if you know what you are doing. It's jut a little bit more involved than upgrading Debian
@@truemorpheus Can you explain how?
manjaro definitely doesn't deserve to be ranked this high that crap is unstable af
when i was trying to daily drive it before i switched to arch it broke almost every time i updated
the reason is the gasket between the chair and the computer, my Manjaro works fine and updates
@@vladimir_fomin90 that is hilarious how come im able to daily drive arch with no issues for 2 years straight but manjaro crapped out in few weeks
imo manjaro is fine... if you don't wanna use aur
@@TheLonelyMoon i use aur and everything is fine
@@vladimir_fomin90 "WORKS ON MY MACHINE!!!11"
Stable, easy to install, runs on weaker hardware, few issues, good toolbox. Is it specifically for gamers? No. Perfect out of the box for content creation? Also, no. But few Linuxes are better for first-time users and if you just want to extend the usable lifespan of an older system you have lying around.
I tried a bunch of distros and MX Linux is the easiest to install and the easiest to use with fewer issues.
There are so many Linux distro's to choose from,Windows users are better off using Mint or Ubuntu,Linux users that know the score will be happy with MX Linux. I have used most of the popular Linux distro's over the years and MX Linux is excellent. Don't blame MX Linux for being number one on Distrowatch you should blame Distrowatch itself. The listing is nothing to do with most popular distro but most clicked on for interest not necessarily to install it.Ok do you understand now,Distrowatch is at fault not MX Linux.
CachyOS
I haven't used MX linux as daily driver, but it has the best looking xfce ootb look imho.
Alternative title: local franche man is harassing small distro
I think you meant French, right?
This selfproclaimaed "linux expert" french man allways harassing every distro wich is not Cachyy os ,This guy knows just one thing Cachy OS is the god of the linux systems.He have no clue for ex. that MX if you use the AHS (advanced hardware support )version will install kernel 6.9 lyquorix and a newest nvidia driver he knows just Cachy os is the best .BTW he failed to install even Vanilla OS 2 on his computer a few days ago but he is an expert just like the oter guy Chris Titus.
Harassing is a big word... If you watched the video entirely you would know that gave it some props!
@nukblack6509 Haters gonna hate... You really thought that a most modern kernel and updated drivers would have solved all the issues I mentioned in this video?
Also, for VanillaOS 2, it is a known bug by their dev team. Nobody with my hardware can boot the installation ISO until they fix it. FACT: github.com/Vanilla-OS/nvidia-image/issues/38
Thanks for watching and commenting my videos though! Take care bud =)
@@A1RM4X Et si le ISO est sur Ventoy, ça marchera avec i5 13ème et RTX 4060?
I discover you through twitch in pubg days, i'm glad you found your niche
What you really can't understand is why Arch isn't number 1 on that list...right?
I thinking about install that system on usb drive as light and well and functionall, it seems.
I have installed on usb drive kubuntu with kde and that was a bad idea (sluggish, buggy, overweighted)
@A1RM4X, the video timeline shows "ZorinOS" instead of MX
Fixed. Thanks!
This is crazy me being new to Linux i found out about mint and it revived my 10 year old laptop and on my gaming pc i just switched to catchyos and I thought catchyos was complex
Popular on distrowatch but very underrated on real world, my 2 cents
It's not. It's not as a good of a distro to deserve such hype. It looks like made by someone who thought "you know what if we put everything this will be hit". In real life it is an incoherent mishmash of Linux based tools.
@@EmirKATIRCI What you didn't like?
@@EmirKATIRCI Did you even tryed it or just trying to show people how"smart" guy you are.
MX works great for me. I'll bet most people don't have the latest hardware and require up to the minute updates. MX effortlessly detected my home network Brother printer, better than antiX, openSUSE, endeavour, void, and nitrux. I'll probably always be a Linux noob and that's ok. Complaining how a desktop on a distro looks seems pointless, cuz Linux is easily configurable. I like kde and xfce (current DE). Gnome isn't for me. My preferred vpn, Protonvpn is flawless on MX, unlike issues on other distros. That's a biggie for me.
Great review but the fact that you nearly dont have to use terminal on this distro is a disadvantage in the long run if you switching to linux from windows and are planning to stay on it
Not only is it a disadvantage, but I would even argue that so many GUI applications can be overwhelming for new users. IMO, it's better to go in the terminal for the 1 or 2 things you need to change/fix than look at 500 options spread across 5 applications with 20 menus each...
Very good point
@@JoaoSilva-xj4uu No.
That might be true for those of any technical bent but for non-techies the terminal is an absolute No-go. Show the terminal to a non-techie and they real reject the distro - end of. The terminal TERRIFIES them and they are convinced they will destroy their laptop if they use it. GUI is the only way for them.
I suspect using XFCE leads to 20 different apps for configs. I got with KDE where everything is in System settings with a couple of extra - very useful - tools from the MX Team themselves. If one of my non-techie converts whatsapps me with a problem (often "How can I have this feature?") I can literally just type back the setting setting to click on KDE System settings. That's why I give KDE to new users and it has proven a smart choice.
People are never satisfied, however. With KDE 5, which MX Linux still uses, everyone complained that too many settings were in sight confusing users and leading to fear. So with KDE 6 the KDE team moved many settings into more hidden away locations, out of sight. So now people complain that KDE makes accessing advanced settings hard which is what they 'wanted' before! There is always a trade off!
Ma boy Arch ranked lower than Gentoo on Distrowatch. How and why?
Then they got CachyOS ranked lower than Debian which is again higher than openSUSE as well.
And how the heck is Manjaro so high? Cachy defeats it both in user-friendliness and performance, I'm scared to mention stability there cuz this one is arguable in Manjaro.
I don't understand their point of view.
Manjaro is much more known than Cachy.
@@Winnetou17 Yeah, I already see how this works.
The ranking on the right side of the page is defaulted to page views not rating or popularity.
@@Ud4cznik Well, to be fair, the ranking is clearly very biased on whomever visits Distrowatch, so clearly it has a weird ranking, given that that website is not an essential website that all Linux users visit daily.
Unfortunately we don't really have much better insight than that. By the nature of Linux, some people will never appear in some statistics, either because they don't go/use that/there or because they don't want to be tracked/provide telemetry/participate in a survey.
Distrowatch rankings are meme level of a joke
For old laptops Antix is better. Takes only 200 ram.
I wonder why they used a PDF when an interactive HTML document would suffice. Maybe the PDF is in case the user wants to print it out for safekeeping but thats a stretch
You're totally right!
MX its a weird distro. I've started using linux from beginning this year and tested MX Linux, what a disappointment. Now i'm using Linux Mint + TKG Kernel, its the best experience i got till now.
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never get why is mx linux on number 1 distrowatch
that rank seems rigged
everyone i know and watch on internet either use arch, mint or fedora
literally nobody use mx, and i personally find it mediocre
9 views in 4 minutes dude fell down :(
Do you realize most english consumers are in america, and over here its still dark as hell, give the video time brother
@@alejandroespalter2601 Hey man, I'm happy to tell you that over here in hell there's plenty of light and not so much darkness. From all this fire and lava that's mostly everywhere.
@@alejandroespalter2601 Or people slowly realize that the quality of these distro reviews are more and more poor and lacuster Testing and comparing distributions based on 2 or 3 game benchmarks sorry to say it but is a shame.A time ago i was subscriber of his chanel but i cancelled my subscription and now i'm coming here just to laugh how "smart" this guy is.
@@Winnetou17 How did you manage to make me laugh this hard brother. Thanks.
@@nukblack6509 You watched the video and write a lot of comments for someone who unsubscribed, please keep up the good work bud xD
i like my mint
What about basil? =)
Definitely, MX should not be in the top 3; Linux Mint is by far the best. However, for performance and benchmarking, having the latest kernel and drivers is not a major factor; all of them are suitable for gaming. Tests have shown that using optimized packages (x86-64-v3 and -v4) does not significantly improve performance.
It looks horrible. I have tried quite a few. CachyOS is by far the best.
I agree, MX Linux is a cherry picked distribution done wrong. It's overkill. I avoid it all together.