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"The best choice from MX Linux will be versions 17.1 and 18. Subsequent versions have worsened. Of these, 18.3 the most unsuccessful. This is the opinion of my hardware on an old 9 year old desktop. And I agree with my computer."
I wonder why the reviewer said this: if there any change in 18.3 that may affect compatibility with older hardware (note; I'm still on 18.2 myself, and I have no reason to complain).
A previous review was simple horrible and strange:
Non functional. Install almost bricked my laptop.
Another distro cured it. I am not giving MX another try.
How does a Os instlation brick a computer, I wonder? Some problem with Grub? Also, how does a distro cure a "almost bricked" computer?
How does a Os instlation brick a computer, I wonder? Some problem with Grub? Also, how does a distro cure a "almost bricked" computer?
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Paulo, I find it useful to remember that a 'fool with a tool' is still a 'fool'. :lipsrsealed:
Pax vobiscum, Mark Rabideau - ManyRoads Genealogy -or- eirenicon llc. (geeky stuff)
i3wm, bspwm, hlwm, dwm, spectrwm ~ Linux #449130
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken
asqwerth wrote: ↑Fri Jul 05, 2019 11:52 am
There were changes to the installer for 18.3 though, so who knows?
It is possible some of the more recent reviewers with complaints might have genuinely encountered issues.
And we'll take the complaints seriously if they give us serious information about what went wrong; not FUD on the level of "MX is icky and gave my computer the cooties. I had to put a crystal on it to heal its aura."
Stevo wrote: ↑Sat Jul 06, 2019 2:24 pm
And we'll take the complaints seriously if they give us serious information about what went wrong; not FUD on the level of "MX is icky and gave my computer the cooties. I had to put a crystal on it to heal its aura."
MX-23.2_x64 July 31 2023 * 6.1.0-20-amd64 ext4 Xfce 4.18.1 * 8core AMD Ryzen 7 2700
Asus TUF B450-Plus Gaming UEFI * Asus GTX 1050 Ti Nvidia 525.147.05 * 2x16Gb DDR4 2666 Kingston HyperX Predator
Samsung 860EVO * Samsung S24D330 & P2250 * HP Envy 5030
asqwerth wrote: ↑Fri Jul 05, 2019 11:52 am
There were changes to the installer for 18.3 though, so who knows?
It is possible some of the more recent reviewers with complaints might have genuinely encountered issues.
And we'll take the complaints seriously if they give us serious information about what went wrong; not FUD on the level of "MX is icky and gave my computer the cooties. I had to put a crystal on it to heal its aura."
We saw crystals for sale today at a flea market. I didn't look closely, so I probably missed the MX Linux crystals...
Pax vobiscum, Mark Rabideau - ManyRoads Genealogy -or- eirenicon llc. (geeky stuff)
i3wm, bspwm, hlwm, dwm, spectrwm ~ Linux #449130
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken
Power management on the Lenovo Thinkpads that are from 7 years to 2 years of age is not optimized and the Thinkpads run hot and uses a lot of battery power.....not a laptop you want to go and sit outside and type a long-winded document for the office or do spreadsheet budget alterations with ....Guys, please look at power optimizations....currently Linux Mint 18 and above caters for all that and battery life is exceptionally longer on Linux Mint than MX Linux.
I installed it on two machines, it runs without issues on my old Quad-Core system from 2007 which sports an NVidia card. The proprietary drivers were a cinch to install.
On my laptop, which is AMD, things are a little wonkier. I have to boot into safe video, otherwise things are useless for me. The screen doesn't update itself at all it seems. What I mean by that is, I'll click the "install" option on the desktop, but it appears that the installer freezes. It DOESN'T, and I discovered it accidentally. I clicked the Mx "start" button and I noticed the updated install screen. Basically, every time I entered info on the install screen and clicked "next", I had to hit the 'start' button again just to see the install screen move forward. If I enable 'safevideo' that doesn't happen, but then it'll use the boot parameter of 'nomodeset'. That's fine if you don't plan to tweak anymore, but you can't do anything to configure resolution or anything else.
Specifically, my video is AMD's "Volcanic" something. This distro and PCLinuxOS are the only two distro's I've had issues with, but it was addressed with PCLinuxOS.
