Ditto to Gordon's welcome Bart. I have a friend who also makes computers available for little or no cost to his friends and his experience is a little like yours may be in that it is indeed a bit of a challenge in convincing everyone that MX (or any other Linux platform) is going to suit them like the Windows platforms they may have been familiar with. That said, and as Gordon said, MX is growing. It is indeed growing in both adoption and numbers on this forum (28 on Distrowatch at last check and heading for 6,000 in forum numbers). I believe that with the advantages that Linux brings to the table particularly in today's computing world and with such great distros as MX, Linux generally can't help but progress.The small size of the user base (as compared to Ubuntu) would make it hard for me to use on computers that I give away. But we'll see. I definitely like the spirit of the MX community.
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27 on Distrowatch--6 months, 50 for 12 months; but that doesn't convey the whole picture. MX16 began on Distrowatch back on December 13th, at the very bottom (somewhere around 237 for both), because the previous iterations were lumped in with AntiX. That's only 5-1/2 months! That's one helluva climb.
Lenovo T430 i5/3320m 8GB MX17.1/Win7SP1 180GB SSD/128GB mSATA
Lenovo X230 i7/3520m 12GB MX17.1/Win7SP1 500GB SSD 480GB mSATA
Lenovo X131e i3/3227u 8GB MX21Xfce/Win7SP1 500GB SSD
Lenovo 11e Celeron n3150 4GB MX19/Fedora30Games 128GB SSD
Lenovo X230 i7/3520m 12GB MX17.1/Win7SP1 500GB SSD 480GB mSATA
Lenovo X131e i3/3227u 8GB MX21Xfce/Win7SP1 500GB SSD
Lenovo 11e Celeron n3150 4GB MX19/Fedora30Games 128GB SSD
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I hear ya, but I've steered more than a dozen folks (most of 'em noobs) to using MX, without regrets. AFAIK, only one of 'em has ever registered here at the forum; his help request was quickly resolved. Seldom do the other folks pester me with questions/helpme's, so I guess that indicates troublefree operation.The small size of the user base (as compared to Ubuntu) would make it hard for me to use on computers that I give away.
BTW: What's the latest guestimate, total number of MX16 installs?
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Who the heck knows? The only numbers I have are for downloads (SourceForge and torrents only), which ATM are about 55,000.
Missing are all the other mirrors, and of course what appears to be a significant multiplier effect, since we have seen numerous accounts of people passing it to friends and relatives.
Missing are all the other mirrors, and of course what appears to be a significant multiplier effect, since we have seen numerous accounts of people passing it to friends and relatives.
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Personal: Lenovo X1 Carbon with MX-23 Fluxbox and Windows 10
Other: Raspberry Pi 5 with MX-23 Xfce Raspberry Pi Respin
Personal: Lenovo X1 Carbon with MX-23 Fluxbox and Windows 10
Other: Raspberry Pi 5 with MX-23 Xfce Raspberry Pi Respin
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Aye, as well as iso copies retrieved via bittorrent...Missing are all the other mirrors, and
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i like mx because it is debian stable based and user friendly like linux mint. what could be better? well , an improved mx... and rolling release perhaps?
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MX has made it easy and will continue to "roll" within a single version of Debian, but roll to the next, Jessie to Stretch, unlikely.
And an approximate mid-year release is now being worked on that current MX 16 users can migrate to with all Jessie upgrades and native MX improvements.
And an approximate mid-year release is now being worked on that current MX 16 users can migrate to with all Jessie upgrades and native MX improvements.
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Understandable. We all can't be rocket scientists. Some of have to learn the hard way. Tweaking our install is part of the learning process. You have to start some where when you are on the bottom looking up.The Linux users who talk about how much they love Linux because you can customize everything frankly baffle me....
Lack of Empathy is what baffles me from techs that prefer to strut around with High Hats. Like the world evolves around them.
Just beating a dead horse I saw laying around on this thread.
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I would put it a different way. I want to have control over my system, the way it looks, the way I start apps, the way I can get software. You do not get this with Windows. You can call that customization, if soThe Linux users who talk about how much they love Linux because you can customize everything frankly baffle me....
personnalisation longue durée.
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So we are expecting more polished stuff? good to hear that. And i like native mx features, i forgot that before. In fact i wonder why other distros don't do similar things.richb wrote:MX 16 users can migrate to with all Jessie upgrades and native MX improvements.