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dolphin_oracle wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2019 7:59 pmNvidia is a little problematic right now too as some systems require an xorg.conf and some don't (and in fact, it causes problems).
Perhaps there could be some more detailed information on that in the forum (sticky thread) or warning at the homepage (..in case I didn't see it)
That Nvidia problem initially made me delete MX from my machine a few months ago, because I didn't know what to do and didn't find the information to fix this at that time. Fortunately, all other distros I tried since then had their quirks too and with the second or third try I finally found out (somewhere else I guess) that renaming/deleting xorg.conf is a possible solution.
I mean, it is really frustrating for a newbie to sit in front of a black screen with only a blinking cursor ... especially when the installation of the Nvidia driver via MX Tools provides a certain level of trust that everything should work.
Quite often you never get a second chance to make a first impression.
The only fault I can think of arose when installing. Choosing partitions would be improved by the option of adding other partitions to be included for automatic mounting. This is standard on xubuntu and mint xfce but not on MX.
Works fine from the USB, but when installed on an Acer Cloudbook, it does not boot to the desktop but just command line mode. Earlier version was fine.
Tried it for over a week. It is very buggy. Settings change on there own. Very poor support. Missing codecs for kdenlive. Going back to Linux Mint. A Much better distro!
What a pile of poo. The only reason I've posted it is because I'm wondering if any codecs are missing.
Version: 18.2
Rating: 5
Date: 2019-04-15
Votes: 0
It is not so perfect distro.
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Is it suitable for the end user? May be, but a quantity more suitable for experienced user. If you install/upgrade an application from the backports repository and you experience problems, you may not know how to get it back.
Um, what does the PI say when you click across to backports?
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Dated applications or libraries, audio/video codecs, example opus, probably the best high fidelity lossy audio codec devised is way back in non-stable version in this MX 18.2 distribution.
Here's one that takes off five points because the Tor Browser, a third-party, non-MX program, kept crashing for them.
Version: 18.2
Rating: 5
Date: 2019-04-28
Votes: 0
As an experienced Linux user for decades now, in the 32-bits version of MX-18.2 Tor browser crashed over and over again. Mostly after a few minutes or so, that safe browser crashed. I have to admit MX-18.2 runs on my old laptop very well, but as I do not use Tor browser on that device, I have no experience what would happen if I did. MX-18.2 is very fast, offers a complete set of software.
I don't have any crashes with the 64-bit version at all.
Not sure if it takes longer to boot into the live USB but mine gets stuck "Starting cgroup management daemon: cgmanager" never gets thru the boot so I can't use it.
I copy & paste to the terminal. Liars, Wiseguys, Trolls, and those without manners will be added to my ignore list. 