MX Linux is based on Anti-X which is developed by a group of radical anarchists in Europe.

I actually prefer Debian Experimental and used it for years but, for the past couple of years, I always ran into a bit of a snag when installing: namely, wireless drivers for Debian always seemed to be a bit behind, especially when trying to install to newer hardware.

No, it’s not impossible, but it’s sort of a pain in the neck. I did notice, however, that even some of the LTS versions of Ubuntu had no trouble whatsoever picking up my wireless cards (or some of the other new-ish hardware present). So I guess I sort of fell into the Ubuntu family of distros due to the relative pain-free installation.

Besides, Ubuntu is close enough to Debian that there exists a certain familiarity for me. I can even use some of my favorite Debian repositories (I really don’t recommend doing this unless YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING). There seems to be just a bit of “hand-holding” with the Ubuntu distros but it’s not at an annoying level.

I guess my verdict is that, even though I still prefer Debian Experimental, one could do far worse than Ubuntu when you just need to get a system up and running with as few obstacles as possible.

The default gnome-shell is very minimal & nice btw. It’s ubuntu’s modifications that make it bad. You can test this on GNOME’s own distro “GNOME OS”

Distro hopping is an old thing too. Becuase all distros are the same nowadays with only differences existing in package management & DEs they ship with.

@James

True, thanks for adding your thoughts here.