Subj : Re: MX Linux To : Dan Clough From : Gerrit Kuehn Date : Sun Jul 25 2021 08:00 am Hello Dan! 24 Jul 21 18:06, Dan Clough wrote to Gerrit Kuehn: DC> Excellent. It is an excellent distro from what I've seen, and what DC> you're seeing. I'm a longtime Slackware user, and honestly can't see DC> myself switching away from it, but lately I've gotten a little fed up DC> with how it's going, and this distro (MX) is the only one I've found DC> that makes me even wonder if it's a possible replacement. Some of the first Linux systems I've used (just as a user, not as an admin) in the 1990ies were Slackware, too. A former colleague was a big fan of it back then. Other systems were running SUSE, Debian, Redhat, Caldera... At some point they all drove me half-mad when it came to updates or when I wanted a specific version of some software. I switched to FreeBSD somewhen in the late 1990ies for many use cases (and stayed there till today). After doing that, I discovered Gentoo Linux soon after it came out, and since then I'm using it when I need Linux for some specific reason. But I never got around to put up enough infrastructure to be able to run Gentoo on workstations properly (have my own binary package server and things like that), so I went for Sabayon there when it was available (mainly for having the convenience of an installer, binary package updates etc). Allowed me to build on much of the Gentoo stuff I already had. Now that period appears to be over after another 15 years or so as Sabayon is going offline, and their follow-up product is not ready yet (I guess I should still give it a try, though). So I've been installing stock Debian on a couple of systems over the last months to see how it works as a replacement, but I'm still at odds with it. It often feels like it goes long ways to keep me from having simple solutions for simple problems, but well... Anyway, as a workstation OS, MX looks like it could solve most of the issues I usually have with Debian-based systems (and yes, not having to use systemd is definitely another plus). Regards, Gerrit .... 8:00AM up 3 days, 51 mins, 7 users, load averages: 0.11, 0.13, 0.09 --- Msged/BSD 6.1.2 * Origin: Ideas of lust and dying (2:240/12) .