Reply To: Antix vs. MX – what’s the difference?

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December 29, 2021 at 7:43 pm #74065
BitJam
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    MX is designed to give you a smooth, stable experience entirely through the GUI while antiX is designed to be fast and lightweight. IMO antiX is better for making a fast-booting “rescue” live-usb.

    One thing that makes MX different from most distros is the community repo. MX is based on Debian stable which is notorious for being filled with out of date packages. OTOH, it is very stable. MX tries to bridge this gap by back-porting newer packages to the older, stable Debian. They have a whole team of developers working on this (perhaps bigger than the entire antiX dev team). They even have a forum dedicated to user requests for packages to back-port.

    I prefer antiX due to its speed, simplicity, and agility. OTOH MX is the king of the hill in the distrowatch page hit rankings while antiX is usually in the top 20.

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