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MX Linux I am one of those people who, you think, “should have their head examined” for liking and using MX linux. Here are just some of the reasons why I like and use MX linux: • It still supports 32-bit computers. • I have gotten it to save my desktop apps and setup in a bootable MX stick drive, which I can use and install on various computers. • MX linux has two search apps. One searches for files and the other searches for apps. This is very unusual in linux OS's: usually you get one or the other, but not both. If one wants to find, say the app to control the touchpad, click on the MX emblem and a search box appears at the bottom of the screen. Key in 'touchpad' and the apps that have anything to do with it are listed for one to click on and activate. • Apps one likes to use, and often use, can be pinned to the panel (which I've moved to the top of the screen). • MX linux just works. And it doesn't use systemd unless the user wants to activate it. • Being based on Debian, I can install Pluma text editor, Kolourpaint (an excellent MS Paint replacement with A LOT more zoom levels!), gthumb, kpat, etc. The only drawback I can see is that the installer doesn't really like to play with the other kids previously installed on the hard drive, so I usually just let it install as the only OS on a computer. Co-existing might go better if another favorite OS is installed after installing MX first. And yes, I would prefer to have Mate as the DE rather than Xfce, but Xfce is ok. I am fussy about liking an OS, and MX Linux is one of the two and a half linuxes I like. It is my main linux OS now, and I recommend it to my linux friends. Ted H
Welcome Aboard! I am a new reader from Germany, and I wonder why I found your magazine now and not earlier. I'm a Linux user from the late 90s ‘til today. I will never forget my first CD-Edition of S.u.S.E Linux 5.2 from 1998. Internet access was expensive in those days and I could, in most cases, only use the content of the CD's. That was before the times of online-updates. The next update came with the next CD-Edition 2 years later. Since 2005 or 2006, I used Ubuntu at home for daily purposes. As I am a proponent for free software (Free as in freedom), and Open Source software, I used many different Linux systems until now, all well known big distributions included.
My actual project finished a week ago. I tried to install Ubuntu 19.10 on a new Asus Laptop from the TUF Gaming Series. The problem was the Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 graphics driver. By default, Ubuntu tries to load the free Nouveau driver and it is not possible to boot into a graphical desktop with it. After crawling the web I found the solution. I edited the boot parameter. I added this line after the “quiet” parameter: acpi_osi=Linux nouveau.modeset=0 This was the only way to boot into the Ubuntu desktop. After installation, I installed the official Nvidia driver 435, which works really well.
Now, happy with my pretty fast Ubuntu, I searched for an online magazine about Ubuntu. As I'm also using Fedora for many years now, I regularly read the Fedora Magazine (https://fedoramagazine.org/). Duckduckgo told me that there was Full Circle Magazine with stuff around Ubuntu. Touchdown! I read your issues for many hours and I am really impressed. You do very good work and I'm sad that you have problems with getting articles. I hope you go on with the magazine. You have, from now on, one more reader. Marco Menne