Beautiful!

Edit: just realized this was in a different comment thread than I though, I should have checked. It depends on your usecase. if you mean for op, I think he’d be better served by a bigger project because he didn’t sound like he needed something, or a combination of something’s that he could best get from MX linux specifically that’s hard to find from a different distro

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I have pretty much no familiarity with it, but it seems like a well respected project which is a good start. What’s your usecase? It seems like a big part of the appeal is a stable base of debian and looks like it may have newer packages availability as it’s listed as a semi-rolling release, but I’d probably wanna confirm that if that sounds like a reason you’re interested since it is based on debian stable. Another big part of the appeal is that it seems like folks realy like some of the graphical tools for configuration stuff that may not normally have a graphical option. Looks like a decent middle/lightweight distro, built on debian.

I’d say downsides are that it looks like a smaller project than many which can mean the experience can be less consistent with less resources to test packages and the installer on everything under the sun. But its been around since 2014, and is part of a broader community of distros, which are a very good sign for a smaller distro, it doesn’t seem like a little garage project with one developer who might just disappear. Its not the most elegant looking (subjective, of course), at least on the xfce desktop, but if you’re using xfce, performance is probably a more important consideration. And you can make pretty much any distro look nice with some work put into theming and customization

I don’t think it’s a distro I’d be likely to pick for myself, but it seems well regarded so I think it really depends on whether it offers something specific that you want, or a combination of attributesyoyu can’t get from a larger distribution. For many people’s use case’s, a smaller distro is going to have meaningful tradeoffs with less documentation and pre-existing questions and answers, fewer people to ask for help, and potentially worse support for hardware configurations that aren’t ubiquitous. Scale really helps in many respects, but sometimes only a small distro has what you want, it just depends what you’re looking for. If you’re a very new user, I’d encourage you to consider whether there are options a little less off the beaten path, but MX linux doesnt look like a bad choice at all if its a fit for specific needs you have

It’s a super cool distro though! I just don’t think its the right pick for op

Hope you have a great day ☺️

Not the person you asked but something arch based is probably not a good fit for this. Its important to be prepared to maintain your system and manually intervene in package upgrades with something like arch.

You may not always need to, and I’m sure many folks never run into an issue, but arch is kinda fundamentally built to be used and maintained in a way that isn’t really compatible with what op is saying they want

A summary of potentially suitable options

Fedora is probably one of best answers if you need current packages. Nobara if you want gaming stuff preconfigured, and it also has non-free repos enabled out of the box and some quality of life tweaks already done for you.

Mint is an amazing option if you don’t care about Gnome desktop, as its not available out of the box, and I’ve seen it discouraged to install from the repos due to potential package conflicts.

Pop os is a cool project that many like, but I always seem to have issues when I’ve tried it. Your milage may vary. I know less about it because when I’ve tried it it’s given me issues, so I haven’t continued to investigate whether it’s a good fit for me 😅 but I think it’s usually regarded as stable distro with a friendly community

Opensuse tumbleweed is a great option, the main issue I’m aware of people having with it is that zypper (the package manager) is slow which can be frustrating. Its a cool project because its one of the few examples of what some people sometimes describe as a “stable rolling release”, where you’ll get new packages and everything is updating all the time, but you shouldn’t see breakage or need to manually intervene in package upgrades.

Debian is insanely stable and a great choice if you don’t all the new and shiny packages. One of it’s selling points is that it’s purely a community project, not funded by one big company who uses it as the upstream for their corporate distro for servers

Ubuntu is generally super stable and low maintainance but it comes set up to use snaps, which have a proprietary back end I feel has no place on the linux desktop. If this isn’t an issue for you, Ubuntu isn’t a bad choice at all.

Manjaro is a neat distro in theory, aiming to use arch as a rolling release base but holding packages back long enough to make sure things are stable. In practice I think community sentiment is that the devs/maintainers aren’t really on the ball, and because packages are held back you really shouldn’t be using the arch user repository which is a big part of what makes arch so appealing to many. I would probably avoid for your usecase.

In general I would stick to bigger projects, and I would avoid minimal distros and arch based projects. Many people regard arch as a relatively stable experience these days in terms of breakage because they use something arch based and haven’t had issues, but arch assumes you’re prepared to troubleshoot if something breaks, or to go make a thing work properly if a package upgrade requires manual intervention. Arch and bleeding edge rolling releases in general don’t really fit what you’re describing you want

I’ve spent a lot of time digging through what’s out there trying to find what might become my distro of choice, so it you run into a question about a distro feel free to ask and I may be able to tell you a bit about community sentiment and what the pros and cons could be

Hope you find what you’re looking for! Have a great day ☺️

Edit: added pop os and mint, and edited some wording

Something arch based is probably not a good fit for this. Its important to be prepared to maintain your system and manually intervene in package upgrades with something like arch.

You may not always need to, and I’m sure many folks never run into an issue, but arch is kinda fundamentally built to be used and maintained in a way that isn’t really compatible with what op is saying they want

Not the person you’re replying to but wanted to share my 2 cents

You might consider keeping things broad given how small a platform lemmy is and how niche the subject matter is. I like the idea of them being separate but splitting community more than strictly necessary runs the risk of the community dieing without enough people having things to post. You can always acknowledge future plans to split, and make it two separate communities in the future

Ultimately you know best what kinda space you wanna make and how you wanna go about it, I just think your community idea is neat and wanna see it reach a stable number of active users :)

Hope you have a great day!

A gtk app for YouTube and/or twitch intended for media PCs would be neat, with controller/remote support and ui optimization for air mice.

I don’t like the ux of kodi very much and trying to get it to play YouTube has been a nightmare 😅 a simple app with a decent user interface would be very welcome

Yeah… Maybe it should be that way for resorts or hotels too??

Lol, what a weird take

That sucks, I’m really sorry man :(

My understanding is that there’s no evidence to support the idea that it’s bad for you in this application at these concentrations.

There is evidence to support it being effective at reducing the risk of cavities.

Not the person you replied to, but to my eye it feels unnecessarily complicated and confusing. The organization of info could be simpler, and the card that pulls up partially in front of the list of entries seems unnecessarily confusing and always feels like it defies my expectations of how I should be able to interact with it.

Droid-ify has almost all of the same functionality and info displayed, but is an infinitely simpler layout, and a lot easier for me to parse. I don’t have to spend time trying to interpret the ui, figure out what’s where, and understand what I’m looking at

I love him.

I think thats fair, but I don’t get the impression most folks who eat meat consider it wrong at all, never mind in such a black and white way. I have a lot of respect for vegan ethics and even I have mixed feelings on whether I consider it explicitly wrong or immoral

I think you’re pretty out of touch with how most folks experience eating meat. I don’t say this as a personal attack, but I think the emotional experience you’re ascribing to folks who do eat meat is inaccurate

As much as I’d like that to be true, I’ve definitely still seen vegan spaces online that are intensely alienating and hostile 😅 when I was using reddit, often anything from r/vegan that hit r/all was pretty hostile to anyone who hadn’t already decided it was an important issue for them and made big lifestyle changes accordingly, adopting veganism.

To be totally honest I’ve also never seen any beef industry propaganda encouraging people to hate vegans or resent veganism. If you can think of any examples off the top of your head I’d be curious to see them (if nothing comes to mind thats fine, I don’t intend that as a gotcha)

I’m not vegan (grew up with an eating disorder, not in any position to cut stuff out of my diet or make eating more complicated/difficult, though I have a lot of respect for vegan ethics) but I am a big nerd about open source stuff and linux, and I’ve observed similar things in that space. I have a friend who’s averse to open source stuff because folks have evangelized to her aggressively and with the same sort of superiority complex many folks perceive vegans as having. I’m grateful she’s excited to listen to me talk about the stuff I’m excited about anyway these days, but I’m careful not to make her feel pressured to drop proprietary software she’s using for open alternatives because I want her to feel respected even though she’s not invested in this thing I care about a whole lot

I think when you work hard to adopt a big change for reasons you’re proud of, it’s easy to view yourself as superior for having learned the thing, or made the dietary change

As someone who much prefers gnome for my desktop this shit is so frustrating. I’m kinda just waiting and watching to see if they ruin another thing I like about it :(

Its fucking exhausting

Thats dope! I’ll be looking forward to it, thanks for sharing your knowledge of what’s going on ☺️

Great article, really enjoyed reading it

Do you know if there’s a new interface coming for android as well?

Thanks for sharing, thats exciting!