My distro hopping era is over. antiX is the way.

[BabyDibbertMember]

I’ve been using Linux for quite some time now and I was stopped looking for distros after I started using Q4OS, great distro I must say, but after a while I started to mess around with antiX, and I can’t say anything bad about it, it’s flawless, efficient, fast and straightfoward. I know the ‘default’ distro for beginners is Mint but antiX deserve more credit.

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[vitforlinuxMember]

Welcome!
Do you think I can change every time I start the computer … and it always ends up using antiX.

I do the installations for fun, when I was younger they called me install everything.

Long live antiX!

Sorry for my spaghetti english, i'm italian. Happy XORG user. GNOME? No thanks!

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[Brian MasinickModerator]

BabyDibbert wrote:

I’ve been using Linux for quite some time now and I was stopped looking for distros after I started using Q4OS, great distro I must say, but after a while I started to mess around with antiX, and I can’t say anything bad about it, it’s flawless, efficient, fast and straightfoward. I know the ‘default’ distro for beginners is Mint but antiX deserve more credit.

Welcome to the antiX forum!
I used to be an avid distro hopper, and I’ll still test a few distributions from time to time, but without question I’ve settled on antiX. Now that we have a few different kernels available, I’m able to start directly with antiX on both new and old systems so that’s exactly what I do too.

My needs these days are pretty simple – Web browsing and simple file editing; not much more, so there’s no need for some huge system with stuff that I’ll never touch.

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[bciMember]

BabyDibbert wrote:

I’ve been using Linux for quite some time now and I was stopped looking for distros after I started using Q4OS, great distro I must say, but after a while I started to mess around with antiX, and I can’t say anything bad about it, it’s flawless, efficient, fast and straightfoward. I know the ‘default’ distro for beginners is Mint but antiX deserve more credit.

I feel this.

Right now, I’m using Fedora. I recently got a Framework 13 laptop; it’s really cool:

CPU: 6-core AMD Ryzen 5 7640U w/ Radeon 760M Graphics (-MT MCP-)
speed/min/max: 1116/406/4972 MHz Kernel: 6.15.4-200.fc42.x86_64 x86_64
Up: 1h 3m Mem: 5.6/14.92 GiB (37.6%) Storage: 232.89 GiB (24.0% used)
Procs: 448 Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.38

I think the hardware might be too advanced for AntiX so far, though, as the latter is based on Debian.

I’ve been recently playing around with installing some of the init-diversity variants on a USB 3.2 Gen 1 stick I have lying around.
This way, I could have AntiX on both my desktop and this newer laptop. Alas, Wifi and bluetooth don’t work off the cuff when running off of the laptop.

To be fair, I didn’t try any of the cana-kernel versions on the newer, problematic hardware.

If I had more time, I’d follow through with all this more thoroughly.

My point though, is that, while AntiX is by “advertisement” more suited for older machines (hence the possible pun “antiques” for AntiX), I feel like it has many very strong
points going for it:

1. Based on Debian package repos: I don’t need to update 300+ packages every week, thankyouverymuch.

2. The package-install interface is sensible once you get used to it; and, because Ubuntu is so popular, a lot of help info exists on the Web in this regard.

3. You aren’t stuck with doing things the systemd-way, if you don’t want to. I’m familiar with 66 from having given Obarun Linux a spin a few times, and so was delighted to, for example, actually enable Bluetooth using it!

4. IceWM and friends are nice and simple. Sometimes I like reaching for a KDE Plasma, but in the end it can also feel banal sometimes. I’ve been gravitating towards XFCE recently
though (through some AntiX respins that have been published on this forum.)

5. The entire LiveUSB/Frugal installation process is a learning experience in a class by itself.

I’m sure there’s more stuff, but I’ll cut it off there. 🙂

In the end, I feel like, just because I might have access to state-of-the-art hardware, there’s still something about the usability of AntiX that makes me gravitate towards it
every single time. To put it bluntly, I could have a machine that could run laps around the circumference of the Earth in nanoseconds, but I’d still prefer Antix. 🙂

[Xunzi_23Member]

Hi all, antiX is not at all about antiques.

Support for latest hardware is at least up to now not provided.
Maybe an advanced hardware support respin will turn up, if someone has the
hardware to test it.. Maybe you could install latest debian kernel or
xanmod or liquorix. In the end post on your experience.

[bciMember]

Indeed, admittedly the whole kernel thing is still (for me) an open question. It’s a subject that I’m only recently getting into.

I noticed that the cli-aptiX interface doesn’t work with some of the newer AntiX releases (notably the init-diversity one), saying that it’s missing some *.list files.
A quick inspection of the file system pans this out to be true.

The result is that I can’t use cli-aptiX to update the kernel on a LiveUSB system, like I used to be able to.

Again, it’s probably back to the ol’ drawing board for me, as Marvin Martian used to say.

(I’ve never heard of the xanmod kernel, that sounds interesting.)

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[Xunzi_23Member]

hi again bci, please note that the init diversity version is experimental
it is surprisingly good, for sure not perfect, presently the development
and testing focus is on upcoming antiX 25.

You will be better off using a normal full version, many of us favour runit,
but you have an init choice, if you want lastest software further
two choices,
upgrade to sid or wait for the upcoming new version. Again though there
will not have been much testing on hardware like yours.

should you try sid the ride may become a bit rocky for a while after
Debian releases the new stable. A number of us happily use sid all the time.

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[PPCMember]

antiX definitely deserves more attention! I appreciate its efficiency. For users seeking a fast and lightweight Linux experience, especially if their hardware is older, antiX is a solid choice. It reminds me of the speed and responsiveness of Moto X3M on a good connection! Perhaps more tutorials comparing antiX and other light distros could boost its visibility. What are your favorite antiX tips?

Sniff, sniff… My nose seems to smell a pretty smart SPAM bot?

[marcelocripeMember]

Hello BabyDibbert.

Welcome to antiX Linux and the forum.

I don’t know how to write in English and I send my texts translated by the internet translator. I hope you can understand everything.

Please read my real welcome in the thread Welcome to antiX Linux and the forum (antiX 23) and read about GNU.

Please learn how to ask for help here on the antiX forum by reading the topics I indicated in my genuine welcome. Please note that there are 3 editions of antiX, series 21 or 22 and 23 that have technical support on this forum. Each edition has 4 ISO images (full, base, net and core) in two different types of boot systems, SyVinit and Runit. If my sum is not wrong, at the present date there are about 48 different types of operating systems. That is why you need to learn how to ask for help here on the antiX forum.

Can I recommend the YouTube channel I created exclusively with the intention of helping people who are new to antiX?

Go to YouTube, search for “antiX Linux em Português” (without the quotation marks), and when you access the channel’s videos, watch the videos in the correct order, that is, from the first video to the most recent video.

To read the subtitles in your language, turn on the subtitles, then click on the gear, Subtitles C/C, Translate automatically and click on your language to activate the automatic translation of the subtitles.

The texts you will read are automatic translations that are offered by YouTube from my texts in Brazilian Portuguese.

According to what 4 or 5 people of different nationalities have told me, “yes, it is possible to learn from the channel’s videos by reading the subtitles in my language”. (The antiX Linux in Portuguese YouTube Channel has Subtitles on All Videos)

marcelocripe
(Original text in Brazilian Portuguese language)

[PDP-8Member]

PPC – I fell out. Looking around at youtube, I saw antiX getting reviewd by the AI stupd voice:

“Enlarge your content creator workflow with antiX exclusive “ruin” “it” technology.”

Tears, man.. 🙂

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