Re: MX Linux has an old-school look and feel. Here's why it's so popular

From	Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: MX Linux has an old-school look and feel. Here's why it's so popular
Date	2022-08-10 19:28 +0200
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Am 10.08.22 um 19:16 schrieb Andreas Kohlbach:
> On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 22:20:16 -0400, 25B.Z969 wrote:
>>
>> On 8/9/22 1:53 PM, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
>>> On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 09:32:54 -0400, 25B.Z969 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>    MINT is nice, but fatter.
>>> Probably depends on the desktop. I doubt the "core" of MX or MINT
>>> differ
>>> much in size.
>>
>>   I checked ... and, pared way down, the 'cores' are pretty
>>   much the same - as they are for anything called a 'Linux'.
>>   It's the ORNAMENTS they hang on that little core that make
>>   the big diff.
>>
>>   MINT tries to do a lot of what Winders does, including a lot
>>   of eye-candy and multimedia.
> 
> Strangely I not get any eye-candy, like animated windows in MATE,
> although the function is checked.

Whether it works depends on the performance of the hardware IIRC.


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MX Linux has an old-school look and feel. Here's why it's so popular Internetado <internetado@alt119.net> - 2022-08-09 08:34 -0300
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