Subj : Re: MX Linux
To   : Dan Clough
From : Gerrit Kuehn
Date : Sun Jul 25 2021 08:00 am

Hello Dan!

24 Jul 21 18:06, Dan Clough wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:

DC> Excellent.  It is an excellent distro from what I've seen, and what
DC> you're seeing.  I'm a longtime Slackware user, and honestly can't see
DC> myself switching away from it, but lately I've gotten a little fed up
DC> with how it's going, and this distro (MX) is the only one I've found
DC> that makes me even wonder if it's a possible replacement.

Some of the first Linux systems I've used (just as a user, not as an admin) in the 1990ies were Slackware, too. A former colleague was a big fan of it back then. Other systems were running SUSE, Debian, Redhat, Caldera...
At some point they all drove me half-mad when it came to updates or when I wanted a specific version of some software. I switched to FreeBSD somewhen in the late 1990ies for many use cases (and stayed there till today). After doing that, I discovered Gentoo Linux soon after it came out, and since then I'm using it when I need Linux for some specific reason.
But I never got around to put up enough infrastructure to be able to run Gentoo on workstations properly (have my own binary package server and things like that), so I went for Sabayon there when it was available (mainly for having the convenience of an installer, binary package updates etc). Allowed me to build on much of the Gentoo stuff I already had.

Now that period appears to be over after another 15 years or so as Sabayon is going offline, and their follow-up product is not ready yet (I guess I should still give it a try, though).
So I've been installing stock Debian on a couple of systems over the last months to see how it works as a replacement, but I'm still at odds with it. It often feels like it goes long ways to keep me from having simple solutions for simple problems, but well...
Anyway, as a workstation OS, MX looks like it could solve most of the issues I usually have with Debian-based systems (and yes, not having to use systemd is definitely another plus).


Regards,
Gerrit

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