Been using Linux off and on for years. Back when Windows 10 got EOL’d, I decided to go all in. I’m one of those weirdos who doesn’t like Mint/Cinnamon, so I went with MX 23 + Plasma.

Now that MX 25 has been out for a bit, I figured I’d try my first in place upgrade: https://mxlinux.org/wiki/in-place-upgrade-from-mx-23-to-mx-25/

The instructions said the process would be “a little bumpy,” but it really wasn’t at all - I’m comfortable with a command line.

Only issue was that my icons were all blank after the upgrade. (I figured a theme got upgraded and the old icon paths were invalid.) All I had to do was go into settings and pick a new icon pack.

Since this was my first time, I don’t really know if that was typical for in place upgrades. I’m sure I’ll find out eventually, haha.

  • kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    5·
    8 hours ago

    First time i hear about MX Linux tbh. I check it out though see what it is about.

    For me personally I am more a fan of a rolling distro on the desktop.

  • MotoAsh@piefed.socialEnglish
    10·
    14 hours ago

    Totally +1 for MX. I’ve tried a few distros over the years, and sure plenty of woes ‘could’ be the recent growing pains into Wayland, etc … but thus far, MX has been so fucking easy it’s almost concerning.

    The only thing I’d slightly gripe about so far is the highly limited options at install time. No multiple partition setup or nearly any alternative choices … but that can also be viewed as a positive.

    From the standpoint of, “I just want this shit to work”, it’s been excellent.

    I was also looking at cinnamon, but I wanted a KDE Plasma option. Then I ran into MX and figured why not try? A couple of very simple and fast installs later, and two different laptops are now running it.

    The extreme ease at installing nvidia drivers was just icing on the cake for how easy the rest went.

    • actionjbone@sh.itjust.worksOP
      3·
      12 hours ago

      Yeah, all this exactly.

      My desktop is pretty old, but I still use it for blender and 3D printing stuff. I don’t need anything too complex - just stability (including compatibility with my Nvidia card). No need for complex partitioning, partly because all my files are on my NAS. And the antiX package manager is much better than Synaptics - I should figure out if it works on other flavors of Debian, too…

      I’ve played with tons of distros. I run Bazzite for gaming, and I love Endeavour for productivity. But I keep going back to MX on anything a little older.