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Anyone using MX Linux? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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.

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[–] 14 points 1 month ago (1 child)

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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Yakuake user here. Drop down terminal is my favorite terminal experience.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    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.

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