Sure it is…

Some people prefer to have a game mod manager working immediately, others prefer their system working for years instead of failing to boot after an update.

And all 3 are anonymous…

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It’s not just a reskin, the MX tools are really useful for beginners and non-technical people.

Currently installed using Ansible, because that’s more sensible than Bash for this imo.

What do you mean? It’s just a few lines to symlink everything for me.

It’s decent, but screw using someone’s personal distro. Glorious literally dropped every scrap of his default de config, and switched to another. No transition, no migration, just deleted everything and went on with his day.

I’m currently running a home server using Ubuntu OS, but I’d like to try and explore other options for operating systems to better my skills with linux/unix.

What are you hoping to explore? Distrohopping servers is pretty much pointless, especially if you’re using docker.

Like you’re going to use dnf to install docker instead of apt, maybe configure selinux instead of apparmor, and that’s it. Definitely not worth it IMO.

Yet in 2025 w3c is a pain in the ass

Why use a pi instead of a microcontroller?

Have you tried antix? It’s basically Debian for old computers.

Very weird it can’t play videos at all. I installed Linux on a friend’s old <1gb ram laptop and it’s even able to play 480p YouTube.

Also, I wouldn’t run xfce on it, it’s barely lighter than KDE.

Has terabytes of storage

Worried about a 30 megs

nuff said

GNOME - misses basic functionality every other DE provides, still uses the most resources even before you add extensions

It’s not when the post is literally answered in less than a minute with the bare minimum of effort…

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Which program is the one that surprised you most that it is available on Linux?

Bash.

I find that the least surprising, but ok…

It’s a paid product, but for personal use you’re only paying for the support or for the number of licenses. The most corporate of all distros offers full functionality for free unlike what op is asking for.

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/faqs-no-cost-red-hat-enterprise-linux#general

I think you know its not just a matter of “clicking a setting in a gui once”

I know it is that simple because I’ve done it while running MX on my devices… You can even switch between the two at boot freely.

Why would you choose a non systemd based distro only to just switch it over to systemd? Why over complicate thinga for a new user who is clearly just starting out? Just use normal debian!

It comes with tools that make system management a lot easier for beginners. I think that’s more than a fair trade for having to click a single setting in a gui.

You obviously haven’t used MX, and I have no clue where you’re pulling your opinions out of from. Give it a try instead of continuing to spew nonsense.

So, clicking a setting in a gui once is such a big deal that MX is a bad choice? Next level…

because its going to differ from most other debian distros

How? It’s just Debian with extra tools and sysvinit besides systemd.

then firgure out the differences between sysvinit and systemd

Or just set systemd as a default