On 3/13/23 3:21 PM, dep via tde-users wrote:
said William Morder via tde-users: | You might consider giving antiX (especially) a try. There is another | person on this list who is a big fan of MX Linux and its relative antiX.
Thanks but nah, the argument for Debian is and always has been that Debian *is* Linux.
I still have a list, last updated 2014, of things I had to do to get an Exe or (pure) Debian system configured after install: Video, network, wifi, touchpad, genuine Firefox/Thunderbird, multimedia, etc, etc. It's 91 lines long.
Here's my list for MX, which as I said before is straight Debian as far as how it works, but has some neat tools that make some things a lot easier:
1. Install from the ISO. 2. Install TDE. 3. Tweak a few things here & there. 4. Start using it.
Oversimplified just a tiny bit, but really not very much. Point is, if you want to take a lot of time to get really good at under-the-hood Debian stuff, by all means go for it. But if you just want a solid, working Debian-based system with a minimum of time and hassle, save yourself the time and aggravation and use MX.