MX Linux 23 “Libretto” is now available for download as the latest stable version of this lightweight Debian-based distribution featuring KDE Plasma, Xfce, and Fluxbox editions.

All three MX Linux editions have been updated to include the latest versions of their pre-installed desktop environments. They come with KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS, Xfce 4.18, and Fluxbox 1.3.7.

  • ForbiddenRoot@lemmy.mlEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    This is like a mythical distro for me. I hear about it here and there, usually in the context of it being on top of DistroWatch and why that does not mean anything, but never really known anyone who actually uses it or recommends it.

    That doesn’t make it bad or even obscure of course, because even an outstanding distro like openSuse gets very less screen-time nowadays. But somehow this is one distro I have never installed or even had the urge to find out more about.

    • butter@midwest.socialEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      I use it. It’s certainly a distro. For my laptop, I wanted something based on Debian to match my server, and i didn’t want to have to configure anything That’s pretty much it.

      I don’t love it enough to recommend, but it’s doing its job well enough for me. Maybe it’s problem is that it’s boring.

      I’ll admit, I haven’t really experimented with distros in a while. Not since I installed Debian on my server.

      • ForbiddenRoot@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Maybe it’s problem is that it’s boring.

        Personally, I consider that a feature. Most of my machines are on Debian Stable, though I do keep a distro-hopping laptop around which is on the newly released Mint at the moment. I just use Flatpaks for the odd application that I need the very latest version of (e.g., Yuzu emulator). I will give MX a try sometime, at least in a VM.

        • butter@midwest.socialEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Oh that’s absolutely a feature. Debian in it’s entirety is pretty boring. But it’s not making news or making memes

      • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        1 year ago

        That sounds like it scratches the same itch as Linux Mint Debian Edition, but I’d personally choose LMDE because I used Linux Mint before.

    • Papamousse@beehaw.orgEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I am using MX for a couple of years now, 5 or 6. I used Ubuntu for years and one time I saw MX top of DistroWatch so I installed it, with Xfce, I really like it, just some tweak here and there for the “panel” to have a taskbar etc, and that’s it. Superb distro. It’s on my work PC for years, I will switch to 23 soon.

    • whoami@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      the thing it offers is no systemd, and the mx-linux gui tools to configure your system. Also the advanced hardware support (AHS) is a neat feature. They basically take Debian and make it slightly more user friendly. It’s just less well known than something like ubuntu or mint.

  • palitu@lemmy.perthchat.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Man… I just installed kubuntu… but mx sounds like it may be worth it. What do I get over ubuntu for a desktop type workstation, that won’t do much except for Firefox, Spotify and minecraft?