I consider this to be one of the best if not the best out of Debian based distros.
Make yourself a favour, get an usb enclosure for mSATA and an SSD (basically a big usb stick) and put MX on it - you won't regret it. It's crazy good as a portable usb stick distro.
Dolphin made some tutorials on doing a persistent install https://www.youtube.com/user/runwiththedolphin/videos
Had never heard of this distro or the ones it is based on.
But the way they ship systemD shim is excellent and only highlight the dumpster fire that was it being forced down everyone throats under the "there's no other way to do it" excuse.
SystemD and Gnome (and more recently mozilla) set the bar very low on how to manage open source communities after they are stabilished by other people in the past. Glad to see there are still excellent examples out there with opinionated but respectful engineering decisions.
By any chance have you tried Linux Mint? I find it well polished and useful, in that the environment just works and gets out of my way. It helps right where I need things to be done for me (like looking for proprietary drivers and extensions, or just the right set of config choices in the System Settings applet), and otherwise steps aside to let me focus on my work.
Been using it since 2016, and I'm now in the verge of upgrading to the latest, but I would be open to other Debian or Ubuntu derivatives, if they bring an even better experience than Mint.
Cinnamon on Mint is indeed 10/10. I used to run it even on other distros but it never gets as polished anywhere else. That's the flagship feature of Mint if there is one to mention.
On a tangent, I find the straight-up Debian Stable pretty polished. On the surface of it, feels exactly like Ubuntu, which makes me wonder why would anyone choose a derivative, especially given that anyone can easily configure it to their heart’s content.
the release cycle is the major point I suppose. Debian stable is very old for a workstation. Running testing or unstable is usually fine but not everyone might like it. With something like Ubuntu and two year/6 months update cycles you're probably closer to what most people want on a desktop.
For a programming workstation perhaps. Many people can do their work with the software provided with Debian Stable. If they're job isn't changing much, there's less to worry about over the life of install too.
Have you tried LMDE - Linux Mint Debian edition? It is faster than Linux Mint which is based on Ubuntu. That said, I do think MX is better optimised for performance than even LMDE and find it perceptively to be a tad bit faster.
It does have systemd, but it's disabled by default, and instead used sysvinit. The wiki says fire versions 14-17, but the blog post basically saying that it would stay that way for 19
OK, then I do not understand any relevant difference between MX and Debian.
A few minutes' digging does not reveal an objective reason to pay attention to yet-another-Debian-fork. Anybody who wants adoption should have a good story about why it might be a better choice for the reader than, e.g., Debian, in an easily-found place.
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[ 4.3 ms ] story [ 56.9 ms ] threadBut the way they ship systemD shim is excellent and only highlight the dumpster fire that was it being forced down everyone throats under the "there's no other way to do it" excuse.
SystemD and Gnome (and more recently mozilla) set the bar very low on how to manage open source communities after they are stabilished by other people in the past. Glad to see there are still excellent examples out there with opinionated but respectful engineering decisions.
Been using it since 2016, and I'm now in the verge of upgrading to the latest, but I would be open to other Debian or Ubuntu derivatives, if they bring an even better experience than Mint.
Opinions?
For a programming workstation perhaps. Many people can do their work with the software provided with Debian Stable. If they're job isn't changing much, there's less to worry about over the life of install too.
Every hop from the top level distro adds.
https://mxlinux.org/wiki/system/systemd/ https://mxlinux.org/blog/about-mx-19-and-systemd/
A few minutes' digging does not reveal an objective reason to pay attention to yet-another-Debian-fork. Anybody who wants adoption should have a good story about why it might be a better choice for the reader than, e.g., Debian, in an easily-found place.