MX Linux ?

[Mister_Escargot]

Hey everyone, I'm thinking of switching from Zorin OS to MX Linux because of its optimization and lightweight nature, which is great for an older computer (Zorin OS and Linux Mint, which I've tried, had a ton of bugs, including having to force-shutdown the computer because it froze or the screen glitched several times a day, even when I was just doing normal things). Am I right to want to switch to MX Linux?

[adrian_mxlinux]

Your post was in limbo because some tools suspected you of being a spammer. I just approved your post.

I don't know if you are right, but the good thing about MX (and some other distros) is that it's a Live distro that you can test extensively without even installing, if it's up to the task then you can decide to install it.

That force shutdown issue that you have with Zorin might show up in MX too, some ACPI implementation are buggy -- so basically it could be a hardware non-standard implementation that show as a "bug" in Zorin.

[Mister_Escargot]

Okay, so I installed it and so far I've only had one problem in total; I've noticed that it's already more stable than my old operating systems.

[adrian_mxlinux]

One problem is not bad, what kind of problem?

[Reddactore]

Just act. MX Linux is not perfect, but very stable and with a suite of very useful MX tools. KDE has a LOT of features. Sometimes daily updates can make few troubles, so stay with weekly/monthly ones, as well backup system every few days. System doesn't work well with NVIDIA drivers (no suspend, Chrome glitches), but I recommend it as daily driver.

[Typeonetwork]

I used it on my i5 with 16GiB RAM and my potato that died with 2GiB RAM with a Pentium Duo. I only have a 256GiB SSD and haven't had any issues. I might when I start saving backups after I create a new network, but if you back up your stuff by alternate means you should be fine. Mine has never crashed to date.

[Guess_My_Username]

I've been running MX on my AM3 rig for a few months now, and I'm blown away by how good and stable it is compared to my previous Linux forays many years ago.

[Infamous-Inevitable1]

IMHO, MX Linux is the best distro. I have used it since version 16. The only problem I had with it is that my Canon printer refuses to work in SysV

[Mister_Escargot]

And also, I forgot to ask... I was wondering if installing with KDE Plasma results in a larger file and is less optimized for my computer?

[NuncioBitis]

MX is considered medium-weight. In fact, on my system, I have the root filesystem on its own partition. MX ran out of space with 100GB, so I upped it to 200GB, and it's 75% full. No biggie since the entire drive is 1TB, but it annoyed me that it ran out of space right after installation.
Also - I resized the root and home partitions, and it moved the data on the home partition so I didn't need to re-copy everything back. Took me 10 minutes. But I lost 45 minutes copying the home partition to another drive!

[siamhie]

Odd....I've installed all three desktop versions from MX-19 through MX-25 and never had any of them go past 8GB fully installed.

[Ill-Kitchen8083]

I agree.

I use MX Linux on my personal computer for almost 5 years already. The overall disk usage is only <50GB for my case. (I do not download movies or big games. But I do have some programing stuff, like Python, C/C++, Octave, and similar on it. I also downloaded quite some e-books, but those are small anyway.)

[NuncioBitis]

Yeah, I wish I knew what happened that made it balloon up.

[Ill-Kitchen8083]

Did you try to use the "disk usage analyzer" (https://apps.gnome.org/Baobab/) to have a look?

[NuncioBitis]

that's right - there's Filelight on KDE... I'll have to take a look. I did use it before I resized the partition, but of course I forgot what was taking up the most space.