I never encountered MX. What is it's usecase?
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What is it’s usecase?
Improved Debian for desktop
It's a lightweight distro mainly for old or cheap hardware. It comes with a lot of tools pre-installed and is very conservative towards updates.
No shit how? I actually used it because of damn distrowatch, it is solid but damn Debian based. Had to switch because the Nextcloud version was outdated and didnt work with an updated server.
I mean, if it is just the client app you could see if the Flatpak version works better. ^^
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Are MX users just low key quiet, am I escaping their presence or is there a different reason for MX' high HPD score?
That's definitely a factor. People write and talk about new and exciting stuff, MX is neither. There's no point in writing an article that goes: MX experience - same as a year ago because nothing changed, see ya again in a year.
Still more informative than every "Chrome Unboxed" article ever lol
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MX Linux is my daily atm. I tend to hop around every few months (normally I use Mint.). Honestly, I'm enjoying it far more than Mint and don't see that changing.
Dunno about what's up with distrowatch; just chiming in as that one MX Linux person.
Nice to finally meet you folks :3
Because:
The DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking statistics are a light-hearted way of measuring the popularity of Linux distributions and other free operating systems among the visitors of this website. They correlate neither to usage nor to quality and should not be used to measure the market share of distributions. They simply show the number of times a distribution page on DistroWatch was accessed each day, nothing more.
So people see it on the list and click on it wondering "what the heck is this MX Linux thing". And that boosts the ranking. And now that it's at the top, it attracts more curious clicks, thus it continues to remain on top.
I haven't tried MX Linux. So they set the distrowatch page as start page in the browser, and users never change it?
No, people go on the distrowatch website, see mx linux at the top and wonder what it is because it seems to be popular but they've never heard of it, so they click on it, which boosts the ranking and makes it remain at the top. A website can't change your browser's start page.
And now that it's at the top, it attracts more curious clicks, thus it continues to remain on top.
That's exactly how I learned about MX and started using it.
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Definitely, but still those hit per day numbers gotta come from somewhere. There is of course the possibility to mess around here but I don't want to make accusations out of the blue when there may be that huge fanbase that's just keeping it low >.<
Distro watch rankings are just which page gets the most hits. Get a bunch of different IPs to load LemmyLinux and it'll be number one (and then actual people will click on it to see what it is and why it's number one).
I too had the thought that some people might mess around with the hpd numbers but I don't want to make accusations without solid proof ^^
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