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Eduardo Lucas
I would like to thank for the modern kernel option inside the full ISO. Ryzen CPUs and newer (i would suppose alder lake) are greatly benefitted from it because it makes antix have everything running out of the box and become maybe the lightest distro for any computer and (likely) the most performant. I have personally never seen something as fast as it in my ryzen 3500u, and now every control such as brightness and sound works out of the box, so, as much as i understand the distro may be not intended for cutting edge microarchitectures and would be more advised to use MX-Linux, i would like to ask the team to keep up the support for the modern kernel or, even if you do not intend to include it by default, please include it as an ISO download option, because it seems more polished for certain kinds of users and help me a lot, personally. I also prefer the simplicity of IceWM.
In short, thanks developers again. Been with antiX since 18 or something, i use it daily as main machine and in very specific usecases as well such as alternate machines along with an older windows and another older MS-DOS PC for other tasks. I appreciate the work as always so much.
Regards
Eduardo
- This topic was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by Eduardo Lucas.
- This topic was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by Eduardo Lucas.
- This topic was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by Eduardo Lucas.
PPC
It’s good to know that antiX works for you, even on a newer computer.
I tested lots of distros, before choosing antiX, and I consider that antiX is not the lightest Linux distribution available (that probably should be Tiny Core?) but, in my humble opinion antiX is the lightest fully fledged Linux OS – it makes no concessions- it really is a fully working Debian derivative- any of the tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands?) packages that is available for Debian (or in appimage or flatpak formats) should work on antiX unless it has systemd as it’s dependency. In practice, the only Linux software you can’t run in antiX are those that are only available in snap format, and little less.Even if the “modern kernel” is not available in any of the available antiX ISOs, you can probably install it using Package Installer and then boot from it.
Window Managers, and IceWM in particular have a lot going on for them – they are modular are usually very costumizable. I tested all 3 floating window managers that antiX includes and I’m a bit divided between Fluxbox and IceWM – Fluxbox seems to run on a tiny bit less resources and I do love the included Numix theme. But IceWM now even includes a (sometimes buggy, at least on my computers) option to automatically tile windows (just like Windows does, now).
If you want all the simplicity of Icewm, and more a modern toolbar and menu (with search capability), the ft10-transformation pack handles that for you- so antiX can be as light as possible, and also have everything a desktop user normally expects from a User Interface.P.
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