Dedoimedo happy? What kind of wizardry is that? Indeed, here's a long, detailed, enthusiastic review of MX Linux MX-21 Wildflower, tested in a triple-boot Windows and Linux setup on a laptop with AMD Ryzen processor, Vega graphics and NVMe storage, covering live session, installation and post-install usage, including look and feel, fonts, customization, software management, HD scaling, Samba speed, hardware compatibility, performance, responsiveness, resource usage, battery life, some small quirks with partitioning, screen brigthness and Wireless network reconnect, great overall experience, and more. Have fun. https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/mx-21-kde.html Cheers, Mrk
Thanks for the review. MX is the Distro in my opinion. Between Xfce, Xfce AHS, KDE and Fluxbox there's a good range of options and all on top of Debian's stability, plus updated repos and firmware. You can go with a day-to-day computer, a productivity one or a gaming one. No need for rolling releases or other exotic solutions.
I plan to give it a try. It won't get to change my current flavor of Linux but, I might be placed on my recommends list.
Thanks very much for exploring MX-21 KDE Wildflower. I like Kubuntu 20.04 a lot, as I also liked 18.04, but it is good to have options. KDE neon may be an option, and now with MX-21 KDE Wildflower, MX Linux can also be an option. Nice.
One of my production machines is a Dell Vostro with i3 10100 and 8G RAM. On this machine ALT Kworkstation uses 13% memory inactive with two Conkys, FossaMail, GIS Weather and Slack running in the background. With Google Chrome open and one tab this rises to 20%. MX-21 with an identical setup uses 38% and 66% respectively. This is an insane difference.
MX-21 KDE Wildflower is very satisfying. Lots of useful goodies added by the MX team, one example is that you can perform actions as root in Dolphin with a right click. That's so cool. I deleted all my linux distros because they were frustrating me, and then tried to install the latest stable version of Ubuntu, as dual boot with Windows. However, the installer thought that my boot partition was corrupted, and wouldn't perform the install. So I burned MX-21 KDE Wildflower to a USB and installed that instead, and so far I am quite happy with it.
MX-21 is mostly very nice, except that live USB persistence does not work as expected. I set it to semi-automatic so as to be given the opportunity to save or not at reboot or shut down, but it proceeds without the persistence stage. It also would not allow me to create a persistence size any larger than 4GB even though I have plenty enough space for 8 GB. MX-19.4 persistence, otoh, is near perfect.
Very strange and inexplicable problem this morning with Libreoffice on MX-21. None of the office applications would open at all. Just a brief blink of the icon then nothing. I ended up having to uninstall completely as follows: sudo apt-get remove libreoffice sudo apt-get purge libreoffice* sudo apt-get autoremove I then went into MX Tools Package Installer and re-installed it, and now it all works fine.
I had considered installing the flatpak version, but when I select the MX Package installer tab for it, I get a warning, and one thing I've learned the hard way about these warnings is it's usually a good idea to heed them in order to avoid serious grief.
Usually, a poorly functioning flatpak will not affect your system, because the whole idea of flatpaks is that they are self-contained things. So if it doesn't work, just remove it and go on your merry way.
Whilst you would not expect containerized installations to physically break a Linux system there are still a lot of considerations to make before going down this route. https://ludocode.com/blog/flatpak-is-not-the-future
MX was always one of my favorite distributions. Being a KDE fan, I had often praised their community released ‘KDE Added’ version as being the best KDE4 available at that time. I was sad to see KDE dropped and then pleased when it was taken back up again. Some time ago however there was a post in the MX forum from someone who was unable to get their particular USB Wifi modem to function. This wasn’t surprising since the means to download the driver for it and then build this into a working installation wasn’t easy for anyone with just basic knowledge. I made no attempt to ‘switch’ this particular user (it was a dated thread) but merely pointed out for others who might arrive there from a search that one other distro worked with this modem out of the box. Immediately a moderator jumped down my throat saying ‘we are all about MX here’ and locked the thread. Considering the amount of time I spend trying to help folks across a range of issues forum fanboyism at this level just sees me done. Consequently I’ll never use MX again no matter how good it is and compared with several I could mention it actually isn’t. For most people, using Linux as a working desktop base is a personal choice. In some parts of the world however it becomes more of a necessity since the cost of running and maintaining Windows especially in a commercial environment is just too high. The end product also tends to be of higher quality since it can’t be prone to breakages with every update. Russia is the best example and between ALT, ROSA and Calculate you have plenty of base and desktop options to choose from. This is only a short read and pretty much sums up my own experience with ALT. https://www.linuxquestions.org/ques...lish-speaking-forum-for-alt-linux-4175544084/
I could guess which mod that was. There is one dev over there who thinks a lot of my posts are stupid and irrelevant, and sometimes I am lucky and different dev will handle my issue...
To be fair this isn't just restricted to the MX forum and I appreciate with volunteers being hard to find it must be a challenge to recruit moderators. The end result is a pity though because especially new Linux migrants will only put up with so many 'read the wiki' or 'search the forum first' posts before they give up and go back to Windows. People are what they are and act accordingly, mostly without malicious intent, whether or not it conforms to some mod's idea of the 'rules'.
Many fora close threads for "necroposting". I wouldn't fault the mod in this particular case, as described.
