Been using it for a while, first with XFCE and just recently rebuilt with Plasma.
Hopped a lot before arriving at MX, stayed because it just works, does everything I need and more without issues.
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I have an elderly Lenovo Yoga running it as my daily driver. Boots fast and gets everything done what I need.
I'm surprised to see comments of people actually using it. I know it's been topping distrowatch forever by inflation numbers.
I used MX for a handful of years after CrunchBang ceased development. I decided to migrate to just a core Debian install at a certain point, when I realized I was basically installing custom everything, and wasn't really using MX the way it was probably intended.
It's a good, mid-weight choice. Nothing negative to say about it.
Yep, same here. I went to MX after starting with Ubuntu. Now I’m a Debian guy.
I left for Void at the beginning of the year, and it knocked my socks off.
MX is my distro of choice.
For most common tasks, I can easily pop open either a command line or a GUI, depending on my mood.
It's like the REM of Linux distros: it can appeal to all different kinds of users, and of all different skill levels. Plus, it's not a resource hog.
I have one antiX laptop - an old Chromebook with limited storage and low power. My gaming PC in the living room runs Bazzite. And I test plenty of other distros.
But for my general purpose computers, I keep going back to MX with either Plasma or XFCE.
Plus, I love hitting F4 for the drop-down console.
Have been using it enthusiastically for a good while now. It’s got a nice balance between useable out of the box and having all the tweak ability.
Can’t recommend it enough.