Why Does Everyone Love MX Linux? – MX-Linux 23
MX Linux has topped the charts of DistroWatch’s popularity rankings for months–neigh, years–now, and it’s often a fan-favourite in discussions of Linux distros. But what exactly makes it so adored by the community? Let’s have a look!
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After fighting for years with many distros with a low resources pc im now using MxLinux by 2 years in a live and persistant usb and has be the most ammazin experience
Interesting presentation.
I use Artix Linux on my machines, but for beginners, I install MX Linux.
I gave ZorinOS a try a while back. It looks good and smooth but lacked some ease of use or no nonsense stuff I expect from an OS.
I might check out MX Linux when I feel brave enough to format my main PC again. It looks like an interface that is straight forward and simply does it's job.
this is the most popular distro that I've seen no-one use : /
I like your delivery style, and I think you gave MX a fair shake. I happened onto MX Linux about three years ago when I was resurrecting an old weak laptop for my writing when out and about. It has an excellent keyboard (for MY hands) and let's face it, writing is a low-resource-needy pastime. It worked extremely well on that machine, and I became an XFCE evangelist and could pull off some very nice looks with it…not to mention MX let me scale the 1366×768 display to roughly FHD. That's not as crazy as it sounds…on some displays you can do that and it actually looks nice. I just needed more screen real estate ha. But I fell in LOVE with MX's toolset!
The only other distro I've been similarly impressed with its tools is Garuda which is Arch-based. If you try that go straight for the Dragonized version! It looks like 14 year old gamers high on Red Bull designed it, but it is a VERY impressive distro…super complete and smooth and fast, not to mention the AUR. And the graphics will actually grow on you if you let them…like a fungus lol. I'll say that OpenSUSE pulls a close third place on the tools with YaST.
All that distro worship aside, I run Linux Mint Cinnamon now (after two years with MX and hopping over 30 distros) just because it's dead-simple and reliable and smooth. When LMDE gets full feature-parity, I'll go to that. But not before. I'm past the tinkering obsession and I just want to be productive now. Great video!
Thanks, I was also clueless why it is on the top on DistroWatch. But since more GUI to do terminal stuff is the answer, why isn't OpenSUSE at the top of the rank? (it is 9th now)
I run Mint on my primary tower, Zorin on my cheap travel laptop, and MX on my backup emergency there if everything else fails laptop. I'd be perfectly content to run MX as my primary. At first glance, it might be too quirky for a first-time Windows convert and that's the only reason I usually recommend Mint for Linux newbies. But for anyone with even a bit of Linux time, MX is just amazing.
I enjoyed the review. I use MX Linux on my laptop and it is a very reliable distro.
top of distrowatch does not mean really popular it means it is top of distrowatch geez it's like no one ever heard of botting
The first time I tried MX, I installed steam, which ran very slow on it. I wasn't very impressed and switched to Manjaro, on which steam ran much faster. I didn't try it again till years later, and after I took a deeper dive, I realized that I misjudged MX. Now it is my favorite Debian based distro. #2 Spiral, #3 LMDE.
Never trust distrowatch to see what distros are popular. Especially mx linux 🙂 it's always at number one and a lot of people are convinced that bots are to blame. Debian is finally great on it's own and i do love and have returned to linux mint and LMDE. I am on fedora 39 now and since pop!_os stole my heart 😅 with windows tilling, forge extension for gnome is superb.
MX Linux is a distribution of power and beauty. It is the only distribution that I do not do any customization after installing it. I love it.
Because it works..Most distros are all the same..make them unique to ourselves with customisation.
There are a lot of distros I'd recommend over MX. The tools are a nice idea and should be standard on most distros but they all look like they were made in Windows 95. The only way you can make it look half way decent is start with KDE and spend a few days on it then it will break. I know because I've been trying MX for years. Linux Mint, Zorin OS, Fedora, Manjaro KDE, hell even Ubuntu are all FAR better choices than MX.
Currently running Manjaro KDE on this desktop and dual booting Fedora 39 and LMDE on my MacBook Pro and all are much better than MX. Its not even close.
Good job!
I prefer that a distro closer resembles what I want out of the box, not gives me a ton of customization tools to bring it closer myself. The default configuration of MX Linux is far from my favorite, and the abundance of tools feels overwhelming in an already very customizable desktop environment.
I think Linux Mint strikes a better balance between customizability and user-friendliness. That being said, lately I've been considering switching to a Gnome distro (my choice fell on Pardus, which I consider an excellent and very underrated distro) because Cinnamon has been getting buggier in newer versions. Gnome might be a bit weird, but its level of polish is unrivaled.
I also really liked Deepin, which took me about 10 minutes to set everything up. But my issues with Deepin are exactly the ones you described in your Deepin video.
LMDE 6 is the best compromise that makes the whole experience even better. Solid Debian base, a strong development team, a reliable distribution with Flatpaks already configured, a superb Cinnamon desktop environment, and an upgrade path. The only thing MX Linux needs is an upgrade tool so when Debian 13 gets released in a few years, the upgrade is seamless. Extremely good video.
SIMPLE– it's GREAT— super tools included– FAST, smooth- LIGHT WEIGHT- and VERY highly customizable– and can make it's own ISOs of the setting you put in it- you so you can reload YOUR partucilar set up on another computer anywhere you like.. and so very much more… 23 is out- and it's GREAT…
I have tried MX a couple of times and I don't like it one bit. Fedora 39 though is a jewel.
I love MX Linux but I also love the AUR. And I know about distrobox and it works on MX, just some of the programs don't work or I can't get them to work on MX. I really miss the Snapshot utility. I wish they would or some devs could port it over to Arch or have it in the AUR. But I can only dream.
the only distro I saw which has intro and outro at startup and shutdown. The attention to detail is wow. Still I don't like mx just use linux mint 😂
The video hasn't even been released yet, but I'll give my two cents. I think people like MX for a few reasons. One is that it's based on Debian. Nearly everyone loves Debian for being rock solid and stable, plus it's an easy target for app support. I think another reason is because MX seems to stay out of trouble and doesn't make any big changes, and it's more community-focused. Manjaro had issues that people didn't like, so they left. People despise Ubuntu (I have used it in the past and had no issues but I went back to Windows). Lastly, I've noticed that Linux users are like groups – once you get inside that group, they'll tell you it's the best. I feel like MX Linux is the biggest group in the Debian sphere. I may not actually watch the video when it releases. What I'll do is open up a tab in the background, mute it, and have it loop. So you can get that sweet, succulent ad revenue. Yes, I've done this before to one of your videos. Because as a good, well-known guy, you know I want to be good and support your dreams the best I can. The longest I've looped a video was for a few days before YouTube moved it somewhere else
Because it just works. I use it for years now and it runs on every PC in my home + firm network.
Stable, Flatpak support per default, MX-tools, …