Please don’t get me wrong, this is not meant to be rude slander. MX Linux is not a bad Distro at all (even tho I’ve always opted for Debian instead) and peops are free to use what suits them best.

But compared to other Distros (like Arch, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian or Mint) there doesn’t seem to be much excitement about it. I hardly see articles about MX and I have barely seen people outing themselves as MX users which makes me wonder:

Are MX users just low key quiet, am I escaping their presence or is there a different reason for MX’ high HPD score?

Btw: feel free to take a shot every time I write MX :p

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    No shit how? I actually used it because of damn distrowatch, it is solid but damn Debian based. Had to switch because the Nextcloud version was outdated and didnt work with an updated server.

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      Had to switch because the Nextcloud version was outdated and didnt work with an updated server.

      And there was no flatpak, snap, or appimage?

      Half of my packages are from nix unstable. Stable base + bleeding edge userland.

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        Yes there was but I was literally installing a distro recommended on Distrowatch, so you can estimate my knowledge back then.

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          I’m currently running MX because I went to DW and checked what’s popular. It wasn’t the only one I hopped through, but that’s how I first learned about it.

          Did you check out the MX package installer at any point? It’s got flatpak integration, but I’m wondering if it’s obvious for beginners.

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            I have no idea, I may have to give it another try.

            Currently experimenting with atomic CentOS though, and rpm-ostree always wins

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      I mean, if it is just the client app you could see if the Flatpak version works better. ^^