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Anyone using MX Linux?
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MX is my distro of choice.
For most common tasks, I can easily pop open either a command line or a GUI, depending on my mood.
It's like the REM of Linux distros: it can appeal to all different kinds of users, and of all different skill levels. Plus, it's not a resource hog.
I have one antiX laptop - an old Chromebook with limited storage and low power. My gaming PC in the living room runs Bazzite. And I test plenty of other distros.
But for my general purpose computers, I keep going back to MX with either Plasma or XFCE.
Plus, I love hitting F4 for the drop-down console.
Drop down console is one of the things I absolutely love about MX, so much so that I had to install guake on my desktop I switched over to mint. I'm not sure I could go back to not having a drop down console.
Yakuake user here. Drop down terminal is my favorite terminal experience.
That's the reason why I installed guake. I have yakuake on my laptop and tried it on mint when I switched on my old desktop, but there were some text issues I was too lazy to fix. Guake has been just as good for my use case, but either way I love both.
I know it's actually terminal, but I can't help call it console after years of Quake and other games.