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View Poll Results: Desktop Distribution of the Year
I don't really use MX Linux except for in live sessions sometimes, but today I'd lean towards giving that distro my vote for desktop distro of the year.
Not sure why some people wanna make such a big deal about posting in this thread now. A couple of months isn't such a long time.
I don't really use MX Linux except for in live sessions sometimes, but today I'd lean towards giving that distro my vote for desktop distro of the year.
Not sure why some people wanna make such a big deal about posting in this thread now. A couple of months isn't such a long time.
I installed MX on my spare partition earlier this year after the poll seeing the poll results. I'd previously used Mepis. It was odd using a XFCE version. At the least i was very impressed with both MX Linux and XFCE. Still not a fan of deb packages however and decided to see if i could accomplish as good of an operating system using my favourite distro, Opensuse with XFCE. It worked well but it didn't quite feel as polished as MX. I ended up trashing the install by installing a bunch of crap.
Which distribution do you think is best suited for a Desktop machine?
--jeremy
I have been using MX Linux for at least a year or so as LiveCD. I'll will likely have my computer tech install it to my secondary HDD at his next housecall. Of the twenty plus distros I have tried, it is the most intuitive and easiest for a Windows user to deal with. RoboLinux would be my second choice for ease of use, and apparently also streamlines the use of VirtualBox (out of my league). Either would make an excellent and easy to learn desktop.
Lovely. Again, the superior design wins. - Or does it?
(Why do people want to do that?)
To make it easier for new folks who just want to USE the computer, not be baffled by it or fight with its innards. But sometimes because that's one's preferred style of desktop (me, I hate the 'application launcher' and insist on a traditional menu, regardless of the OS, and I also won't use a flat white desktop). Not intrinsically different from the imitation-MacOSX themes that are common enough.
AntiX, Obarun and Void have been the only distributions for me that have lasted long. For different things I use a different one. The problem with me is I tend to converge them to be the same, which they don't mind, but then the purpose of using them for different things deteriorate. Booting up and watching the Ram being so low (80-130MB depending on architecture and services started) is a great joy.
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