Thank you , thank you.
A thousand thank yous.
After many long years of going back and forth between Macroshxt Windoze and LINUX, I have finally found my home---> MX Linux.
Kindly let me review my journey of how I got here.
Years ago in 2015 I got fed up with Windoze and Macroshxt's spying and low quality software.
And so I decided to move to Linux. I didn't think it would be that hard. I was wrong.
I settled on Ubuntu since it was the only one I had heard of.
At first i thought it was quite good but then the problems began. Most of them were hardware related.
None of my hardware would work properly. My printer which I need for work, was MIA (missing in action) ,
it would not function under Ubuntu (CUPS) no matter what I tried.
And so after a few weeks I gave up and went back to Macroshxt's Windoze. I was sad.
A few years later and Windoze 10 came along ( I was still using Windoze 7) and I saw all the problems people were having
with constant involuntary updates some of which would break their systems.
The rumors about Windoze 10 spying on people's computer activity were growing and growing.
I decided never to "downgrade" to Windoze 10 and stick with "7".
But my frustration grew and grew.
This took a few more years to build up, until this year, almost 10 years since the time I first tried Linux.
I started with Linux Mint since I consider myself a Linux beginner. It was easy to use but I discovered some glaring privacy concerns with
that build version. Further I realized that it was built on the Ubuntu stream which was promoting Amazon and selling user's search data to 3rd parties.
I decided to ditch Mint and go to KDE Plasma (neon). I didn't know at the time that it was also built on Ubuntu.
I found KDE to be a beautiful distro , very pleasant to work in and highly polished.
However on my system it was slow , and the Ubuntu heritage was still objectionable to me.
And so I switched to the father/mother of all distributions (leaving out Slackware lol) ---> Plain Vanilla DEBIAN.
At first, I loved Debian. It was simple, clean and fast.
I used systemd-analyze and found my system booted in less than 12 seconds.
That was awesome.
But then the problems arose.
My system would freeze up for no reason at all , as far as I could tell.
More than 3 dozen crashes later I narrowed the problem down to the noveau Nvidia driver.
Using Debian to change Nvidia driver's was very frustrating for me so I looked for an alternate solution.
And this is were my sorrow began to turn into JOY ! ---> I found MX Linux.
WOW !
I watched a few hours of video reviews on MX Linux and noted it came with the Nvidia driver installer.
No terminal fiddling needed! (Linux noob that I am).
I saw the beautiful colors and icons that came with MX Linux.
The XFCE desktop environment was exactly what I was looking for.
So... I deleted my Debian partitions and installed MX Linux.
And now a few weeks later, I am so impressed with this distro.
It is everything I was looking for.
I want to thank all of you from MX Linux that worked to make this distro the masterpiece that it really is.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I have finally settled down to a home in Linux away from Windoze.
MX Linux is awesome.
A thousand thank yous.
After many long years of going back and forth between Macroshxt Windoze and LINUX, I have finally found my home---> MX Linux.
Kindly let me review my journey of how I got here.
Years ago in 2015 I got fed up with Windoze and Macroshxt's spying and low quality software.
And so I decided to move to Linux. I didn't think it would be that hard. I was wrong.
I settled on Ubuntu since it was the only one I had heard of.
At first i thought it was quite good but then the problems began. Most of them were hardware related.
None of my hardware would work properly. My printer which I need for work, was MIA (missing in action) ,
it would not function under Ubuntu (CUPS) no matter what I tried.
And so after a few weeks I gave up and went back to Macroshxt's Windoze. I was sad.
A few years later and Windoze 10 came along ( I was still using Windoze 7) and I saw all the problems people were having
with constant involuntary updates some of which would break their systems.
The rumors about Windoze 10 spying on people's computer activity were growing and growing.
I decided never to "downgrade" to Windoze 10 and stick with "7".
But my frustration grew and grew.
This took a few more years to build up, until this year, almost 10 years since the time I first tried Linux.
I started with Linux Mint since I consider myself a Linux beginner. It was easy to use but I discovered some glaring privacy concerns with
that build version. Further I realized that it was built on the Ubuntu stream which was promoting Amazon and selling user's search data to 3rd parties.
I decided to ditch Mint and go to KDE Plasma (neon). I didn't know at the time that it was also built on Ubuntu.
I found KDE to be a beautiful distro , very pleasant to work in and highly polished.
However on my system it was slow , and the Ubuntu heritage was still objectionable to me.
And so I switched to the father/mother of all distributions (leaving out Slackware lol) ---> Plain Vanilla DEBIAN.
At first, I loved Debian. It was simple, clean and fast.
I used systemd-analyze and found my system booted in less than 12 seconds.
That was awesome.
But then the problems arose.
My system would freeze up for no reason at all , as far as I could tell.
More than 3 dozen crashes later I narrowed the problem down to the noveau Nvidia driver.
Using Debian to change Nvidia driver's was very frustrating for me so I looked for an alternate solution.
And this is were my sorrow began to turn into JOY ! ---> I found MX Linux.
WOW !
I watched a few hours of video reviews on MX Linux and noted it came with the Nvidia driver installer.
No terminal fiddling needed! (Linux noob that I am).
I saw the beautiful colors and icons that came with MX Linux.
The XFCE desktop environment was exactly what I was looking for.
So... I deleted my Debian partitions and installed MX Linux.
And now a few weeks later, I am so impressed with this distro.
It is everything I was looking for.
I want to thank all of you from MX Linux that worked to make this distro the masterpiece that it really is.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I have finally settled down to a home in Linux away from Windoze.
MX Linux is awesome.
Statistics: Posted by Bneo — Sat Aug 24, 2024 10:09 pm