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It's funny. In the past I bounced between two seemingly opposites: Debian and Arch.
I'd get bored with Debian and install Arch. Then some update would mess me up an an awkward time and I'd go back to Debian for the stability.

Happy with MX

This is awesome! Thank you so much. Definitely going into my favorites.

Old-ish retired engineer here. Was sitting in a meeting where I brought my old battle-scarred, heavy, and very solid 10 year old Dell Latitude E6430, while surrounded by others with mostly sleek macbooks and one Dell XPS. They looked at my laptop with a "does that thing still work?" look, ...

Let's see if it works.....






..........Yay!

Thanks guys!

Thank you!!

Sorry for the silly question, but I've never done it. What is the best way to post a screenshot here on the forum?

I personally like the idea of saving older machines from the scrap heap. And with MX, my refurbished Dell Latitude runs fast and trouble-free.

If you want to disable the touchpad only while typing on the keyboard, you could also try syndaemon syndaemon -i 1 -d The one is one second locking time Possible to put it into startup, I ended up using this, as other solutions seemed unreliable. Thanks. This has worked well for me: Create a bash s...

For what it's worth, MX just passed Debian to become #5 on the Distrowatch hit ranking. "And the hits just keep on coming..."

Technically, Knoppix....at the advice of a Geek Squad dude to recover my stuff from a Windows 98 home desktop that had crashed. First one I installed right after that was Mandrake from the box set I bought from Best Buy. I don't remember the exact year, but it was a long time ago.