MX-17 Beta 2 Feedback

[dolphin_oracle]

17b2 is awesome........

Isn't it funny how words get twisted around over time?
Awe-some = Some awe ;
Awful = Full of awe.

Having jumped around for a long time from distro to distro, and most recently, to be greatly impressed with the outcome of Solus 3 and then Ubuntu Budgie (which i find fuller) but now... this MX-17 b2!
The latter has really put me in crisis!
Here's one more hand to lift that cup higher to cheer the devs on! :)

that's pretty good company, thanks!

[asqwerth]

I'm totally not an Apple/iDevice person, but I'm sure the programmers in the Dev Team who came up with the new MX-iDevice-mounter app would like to hear users' feedback on the new app.

Does it work? Fully or partially?

Please let them know!

[entropyfoe]

A very solid beta2. Looks good, and thanks to all the developers who made the last minute changes to the 4.13 kernel. I downloaded, md5 was good, so I burned it to a USB flash drive with the antix tool. Successful was reported.

I booted the beta2, and everything seemed to work in the live session. Conky looked weird with the time digits skewed.
So I installed over the beta1. All very fast. Rebooted, immediately used the nvidia driver installer to install the 375.82-8-bpo+1.

Another reboot, all went well.

As I mentioned the big clock conky is not my taste, but by just clicking around, I could change the conky to mx-asq-geekyTower which looks better to me. The point is , don't sweat the conky stuff, there are many options, easy to figure out, and you can always turn it off in the manager if you don't like it.

So far:
eth0 auto connects
sound works with no selection, just a mixe rvolume increase, youtube plays with sound, as well as wav and mp3 from disk in clementine.
data drive mounted with the disk manager.
Turned on xfce compositor.
suspend/resume works correctly, resumes in about 10 sec.
USB thumb drive mounts and unmounts correctly.
samba works OTB, with credentials I can see directories and files on my wife's win 7 machine. (This always amazes me how easily this works...in contrast I can't get connectshares working in antix)
Lots of desktop tweaks, and finally 2 synaptic updates, and 104 new packages added !

So far all looks like it is working. And now for stability testing. Can I equal 9 days recently on antix 17?

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 inxi -F
System:    Host: Ryzen Kernel: 4.13.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3
           Distro: MX-17.b2_x64 Horizon November 20, 2017
Machine:   Device: desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME X370-PRO v: Rev X.0x serial: N/A
           UEFI [Legacy]: American Megatrends v: 0902 date: 09/08/2017
CPU:       Hexa core AMD Ryzen 5 1600X Six-Core (-HT-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB
           clock speeds: max: 3600 MHz 1: 3593 MHz 2: 3593 MHz 3: 3593 MHz 4: 3593 MHz
           5: 3593 MHz 6: 3593 MHz 7: 3593 MHz 8: 3593 MHz 9: 3593 MHz 10: 3593 MHz 11: 3593 MHz
           12: 3593 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GK208 [GeForce GT 710B]
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.2 ) driver: nvidia Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
           OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GT 710/PCIe/SSE2 version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 375.82
Audio:     Card-1 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device 1457 driver: snd_hda_intel
           Card-2 NVIDIA GK208 HDMI/DP Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.13.0-0.bpo.1-amd64
Network:   Card: Intel I211 Gigabit Network Connection driver: igb
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex:
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 2250.5GB (29.6% used)
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 model: Samsung_SSD_960_EVO_250GB size: 250.1GB
           ID-2: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD2002FAEX size: 2000.4GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 39G used: 5.4G (15%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
           ID-2: /home size: 73G used: 94M (1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 17.83GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: N/A mobo: N/A gpu: 38C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 0
Info:      Processes: 273 Uptime: 31 min Memory: 874.2/16047.5MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.43 

[vamsi]

Please remove some of old xfce themes which are ugly

Or don't work...

That is a good reminder for us, we have intended to some theme-cleaning in the past but somehow keep forgetting.

Thanks !

[asinoro]

zsync shows ok but still I have the 17.b1.

downloading from http://netcologne.dl.sourceforge.net/pr ... b2_x64.iso:
#################### 100.0% 1.8 kBps DONE

verifying download...checksum matches OK
used 1238364160 local, fetched 4396

[Jerry3904]

MX Tweak, Theme tab.

Didn't know what "Nichi (horizontal)" was, and there is nothing in the Help file about it (which we have to update anyway). So I tried it, and got a vertical panel broken up into squares.

[dolphin_oracle]

MX Tweak, Theme tab.

Didn't know what "Nichi (horizontal)" was, and there is nothing in the Help file about it (which we have to update anyway). So I tried it, and got a vertical panel broken up into squares.

yes, its for a horizontal panel...and the vertical one is for a vertical panel. its why there are 2.

[Jerry3904]

Selecting the "horizontal" one produces the vertical panel in the image

[dolphin_oracle]

I'll tweak the names.

get it, tweak? (its too early, but the dog is needy).

horizonatl theme on vertical panel

horizontal.jpg

horizontal on a horizontal panel

horizontal_used_on_a_horizontal_panel.jpg

vertical on a vertical panel

vertical.jpg

[richb]

Just got up, one sip of coffee, but your last post (horizontal on horizontal, horizontal on vertical) confused me totally.