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   Hello Dan!   
      
   24 Jul 21 18:06, Dan Clough wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:   
      
    DC> Excellent.  It is an excellent distro from what I've seen, and what    
    DC> you're seeing.  I'm a longtime Slackware user, and honestly can't see    
    DC> myself switching away from it, but lately I've gotten a little fed up    
    DC> with how it's going, and this distro (MX) is the only one I've found    
    DC> that makes me even wonder if it's a possible replacement.   
      
   Some of the first Linux systems I've used (just as a user, not as an admin) in   
   the 1990ies were Slackware, too. A former colleague was a big fan of it back   
   then. Other systems were running SUSE, Debian, Redhat, Caldera...   
   At some point they all drove me half-mad when it came to updates or when I   
   wanted a specific version of some software. I switched to FreeBSD somewhen in   
   the late 1990ies for many use cases (and stayed there till today). After doing   
   that, I discovered Gentoo Linux soon after it came out, and since then I'm   
   using it when I need Linux for some specific reason.   
   But I never got around to put up enough infrastructure to be able to run   
   Gentoo on workstations properly (have my own binary package server and things   
   like that), so I went for Sabayon there when it was available (mainly for   
   having the convenience of an installer, binary package updates etc). Allowed   
   me to build on much of the Gentoo stuff I already had.   
      
   Now that period appears to be over after another 15 years or so as Sabayon is   
   going offline, and their follow-up product is not ready yet (I guess I should   
   still give it a try, though).   
   So I've been installing stock Debian on a couple of systems over the last   
   months to see how it works as a replacement, but I'm still at odds with it. It   
   often feels like it goes long ways to keep me from having simple solutions for   
   simple problems, but well...   
   Anyway, as a workstation OS, MX looks like it could solve most of the issues I   
   usually have with Debian-based systems (and yes, not having to use systemd is   
   definitely another plus).   
      
      
   Regards,   
   Gerrit   
      
   ...  8:00AM  up 3 days, 51 mins, 7 users, load averages: 0.11, 0.13, 0.09   
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