I've written a review of the MX Linux MX-23.6 Libretto Plasma edition, tested on a laptop with hybrid Intel-Nvidia graphics and 4K display, covering ultra-fast installation, look and feel, visual customization, everyday usability, boot speed and desktop responsiveness, proprietary drivers setup, probles with the PRIME configuration, suspend and resume, various bugs and issues, other observations, and more. Enjoy. https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/mx-23-6-kde-nvidia.html Cheers, Mrk
Nice review Mrk, thanks. I've been using MX23.6 for over a year now on a i5-7200u laptop with Mesa Intel graphics driver, with mostly only minor, occasional issues. I did have a serious bug happen last week where the laptop would only boot to a black screen with a frozen mouse pointer. It refused to progress no matter what I tried, so finally after several, unsuccessful reboot attempts, I had to restore from a rescue boot pen drive. Not sure why it happened, but it was shortly after installing a number of updates, so maybe one of the them broke the system.
This is not a criticism but a genuine question - what's the big deal about boot time? Desktop responsiveness - absolut. I have work to do and I don't want to be sitting around waiting every time I need a result. BUT, boot time - 8 seconds to 15 seconds. Who cares? Obviously more people than me.
It wouldn't be a big issue except systemd was hailed as a parallelized init system compared to a serialized init system, and supposedly this parallelism would bring speed improvements. Which, well. It's about boastfulness vs results. Quick edit: someone says here's a new car, it's more economical than the old one, but then it uses more fuel. That's more annoying than if someone says here's a new car, period. But often novelty for the sake of it as claimed as a reason for something when there's nothing else in the equation. Mrk
Glad to read that you were able to restore your system. FWIW, I've been a long-time user of BTRFS with Snapper. So if something goes wrong during an update it's very easy to boot into an older snapshot. This is rarely needed but it did happen in the past. Makes life easier
