Please don’t get me wrong, this is not meant to be rude slander. MX Linux is not a bad Distro at all (even tho I’ve always opted for Debian instead) and peops are free to use what suits them best.
But compared to other Distros (like Arch, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian or Mint) there doesn’t seem to be much excitement about it. I hardly see articles about MX and I have barely seen people outing themselves as MX users which makes me wonder:
Are MX users just low key quiet, am I escaping their presence or is there a different reason for MX’ high HPD score?
Btw: feel free to take a shot every time I write MX :p
That’s definitely a factor. People write and talk about new and exciting stuff, MX is neither. There’s no point in writing an article that goes: MX experience - same as a year ago because nothing changed, see ya again in a year.
i think xfce people in general don’t fuck around with all that distro gobshitery. it’s fast, works and isn’t fancy.
gnome and kde people more likely to want to show off all the bullshit effects they’re wasting all that ram on.
You wanna know what my ram has in it . . . data, glorious data.
Albeit being inefficiently monged into terrible statistical models by some shitty code i wrote.
I especially like it because it’s trying to follow UNIX philosophy. All of its tools are separate and you can use them outside of Xfce or replace them altogether. For example KDE is still not at the point that you can launch the panel outside of it.
It’s not that much lighter than them though. KDE has gotten really close, and truly light DEs like LXDE and LXQT destroy Xfce on that front.
Agreed, LXQT is the shit if you want a slow machine to go faster and look decent while doing it.
Still more informative than every “Chrome Unboxed” article ever lol