Reply To: Greetings & Intro

Welcome to the forum, Renegade Apprentice! ????

I’m glad that you found the “lean and mean” antiX approach.

I’ve used Linux Mint and the other *buntu varieties. There’s nothing necessarily “wrong” with them, but they include a lot of stuff that adds to memory and disk use. On new hardware, it may not matter, but even one year when I ran Mint on a fairly new computer and compared it to Debian, MX Linux, and antiX, I found that there was nothing other than visual appearance and – at least to me – unnecessary “conveniences”, I didn’t use or need any of it.

While I deeply believe in CHOICE – even including the choice between choosing commercial, paid software versus freely available software, I personally prefer software that starts simple; I can add whatever I want to it; these days, that isn’t much, except for my own personal appearance items, which only consume a moderate amount of space. My computer is getting old; I think the hardware was created 6-7 years ago and the system itself is at least six years old. So the CPU power is no longer “impressive”; except on lean, light and fast software, it’s “slow” by today’s standard. The disk space, however, is more than enough. Because of that, I can test numerous different systems, either installing them to disk or running them from USB. The antiX variations are perfect for what I do most of the day – 95% of that is simply browsing the Web, reading, learning, and testing software. Now that I’m retired, I can turn it off any time and do something else; some days I do just that; other days I spend a few to several hours testing the latest software updates.

This weekend, I’ve been testing new versions of antiX test software for a future release.

Whatever you choose to do, antiX works well, especially when it’s old hardware that no longer functions well on “traditional” systems. Best wishes always!