I was looking around for a new Distro to experiment with and I came across MX Linux. I don't understand why I haven't heard about this Distro before because it's very user-friendly without being Ubuntu. I am pretty meh tier when it comes to GNU/Linux so I was wondering what Holla Forums thinks?
New Normie Friendly Distro: MX Linux
Hudson Cook
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Jason Cox
How is it different than X newb distro?
What do you get out of it that isn't in X newb distro?
Jordan Carter
Mint and Manjaro are security cancer, normal Debian is Intermediate while this is Debian beginner, and Antegros is based on Arch which already ruins the point.
It has the MX Tools which are pretty userfriendly like a Codex for gaming.
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Cooper Kelly
It also defaults to sysvinit but has some systemd stuff installed according to Wikipedia.
Wyatt Davis
Isn't it just AntiX rebranded? AntiX was good but if you want a noob friendly distro Ubuntu and it's variants are still the best. It's where all the noobs are, and it's what your average dev targets when they target Linux.
Get Virtualbox and fuck around with it if you want. Worst that happens is you don't like it. AntiX is good, so expect it to be good as well.
Leo Lewis
I run it as a daily driver. It's fast, stable, has its own repos to give newer versions while keeping the debian stable base, and the MX tools come in handy. I think the reason it's not touted as "newb friendly" is because the package management doesn't have some shiny front-end like Ubuntu. It is really good though, and I haven't seriously considered switching since I installed it, which is big for me as I normally hop like mad.
Josiah Wright
Why not just use Devuan?
David Long
It uses antix as its base, but it has its own community repositories and some other differences.
Joseph Cook
That's not really an issue here. Both distros are based on Debian, and therefore 99% of the solutions you'll find on Ubuntu forums will work on MX too.
Caleb Roberts
please elaborate
Jordan Mitchell
Matthew Lee
Because Devuan doesn't fix or replace certain systemd functions like Power Manager Suspend and Hibernate for Laptops which really killed my interest in it personally.
Evan Sullivan
all these guys need to do is make a gui installer for debian with non-free repos codecs and branding.
Tyler Scott
There will never be a normie friendly linux distro as long as the command line is required.
There will never be a linux distro where the command line is not required.
Jeremiah Lee
Why are normies so afraid of typing?
Jayden Green
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get udtate
I dunno, that's what I imagine they think
Isaiah Roberts
They type all the time. Complimenting baby pictures on facebook, writing articles on medium. Stupid shit.
That's too much to ask for normies.
Jeremiah Anderson
Certain distros and desktop environments like ElementaryOS and KDE reduce the usage of the command line.
Leo Perez
its still beta faggot
Christian Taylor
This isnt in beta faggot so therefore you should use it instead of unfinished software.
Kayden Watson
What I define as a Normie Compatible Distro is the ability to use only the bare minimum of knowledge and having the best ease of computing.
Wyatt Bennett
Funnily enough I've been running OpenSUSE Leap since they released 42.2 and I haven't had to use the terminal for anything yet. Everything that can't be done in KDE can be done in YAST. We've had normie friendly distros for ages. Ubuntu has a Driver manager built-in, and Ubuntu MATE even comes with a program that recommends programs for different tasks.
Computer illiterate people can't use Windows any better than they can use any other OS, they just remember where things are. As far as the average guy is concerned you're a pro if you can change the theme. I've had a guy ask me how I got a mac on a PC because I was using Snow Leopard’s default wallpaper. Being a Linux user doesn't mean recompiling your kernel while ricing a tiling window manager, in the same way that being a Windows user doesn't mean fucking around with Windows Server, downloading Photoshop from The Pirate Bay and disabling services that slow down your vidya.
I gave my dad a Mint laptop 2 years ago and he's completely tech illiterate. So far he's figured out how to use it just fine. He asked me for MS Office, so I installed that for him and he uses that without issues. He wouldn't have been able to install MS Office himself using Wine, but then again if he had a Windows laptop he still wouldn't be able to do that either.
What we need is laptops and desktops easily available from retail stores, which come with some Linux distro. Do the whole Mac thing where you make the display look really nice, and advertise their immunity to Windows viruses and stuff. Canonical are in the perfect place to make that happen but they're too busy fucking around with Mir.
Jordan Perez
OpenSuse with Yast comes a long way, I would even say a 'normie' would not have to go into the console.
Leo Morgan
i run antiX without systemd and im semi retarded and also a noob, no need to run ubuntu stuff if you are a noob like me
this thing has to run perfectly fine if its from the same people that make antiX
Michael Johnson
Antergos is pretty based user-kun, but I would say I'm pretty intermediate. I only had to mess with the terminal to install docky for xfce, but even then I could have used AUR. I do like pacman very much though.
Nolan Kelly
I hate this 'word'.
Charles Williams
This is why the year of the Linux desktop is never going to happen.
Xavier Russell
It has already happened.
Yeah AntiX and MX are both good.
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Jordan Gutierrez
You can just type "sudo apt update" these days.
Charles Bell
I really don't understand how linux has penetrated every market from servers to toasters, yet the destep is still stuck at like 2.5% marketshare.
Gavin Torres
Same reason people don't drive crotch rockets for commuting
Don't own a motorcycle but that's my $0.02
Owen Turner
That's pretty good except for the "can't learn to use it" part, only because that comes from sheer intimidation regarding the operation of both a crotch rocket and a Linux operating system.
Chase Adams
The problem is that Linux still doesn't have a DE module.
Xavier Jenkins
This was not the case in the past but for years now normie linux has been easy to use. gentoo/arch/etc aren't, but mint/ubuntu is no harder than windows.
Jordan Gonzalez
I agree, I'm using Ubuntu MATE right now.
Luke Reyes
Or:
Trying to use any motorbike (crotch rocket or otherwise) as your daily commute vehicle in most parts of Canada year-round is deeply stupid.
John Russell
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Ian Nguyen
nice try arch shill
Brody Moore
Not an argument
Jonathan Reyes
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Nathan Sanchez
What's wrong with Mint? I just installed it on my grandma's computer because she fell for a "pay us $300 to fix your computer" phone scam and gave some Pajeets full remote access to her machine.