Conclusion
I have to say, I'm very pleased with this distro. Let's count it. Five years of support, check. Plasma or Xfce desktops, both styled reasonably, check. The Plasma edition is beautiful. You can preserve your live session, and this is probably the one distro that does that, and does it reliably. The
MX Tools set is more advanced than pretty much any toolbox out there, and it includes
system snapshot - so you can boot your customized distro from a USB drive and re-install it anywhere you like. The distro is continually improving while maintaining its clear identity. Not strictly related to this particular review, but it's among the few offering 32-bit builds for old machines. Most distros flaunt the "we can make your legacy boxes alive again" slogan, but MX Linux actually does it.
When you take into account everything: aesthetics, speed, stability, support promise, flexibility of usage and wide range of choices in every aspect of use, the session save trick, tons of useful programs, and tons of useful utilities, well, you get a pleasant, fruitful experience. You can feel the MX Linux team cares, and this sets them apart against the great apathy gripping the Linux desktop space. I am carefully considering deploying MX Linux for serious productivity, beyond the eeePC and the work I did on an older laptop (the one now running Kubuntu 24.04). Yup. And that's a pretty strong endorsement from me.
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