u/Mumuskeh

I love MX so much. It's a no-nonsense OS crafted carefully, and if you want to change/add something it presents you the means to do it very easily.

I am also enjoying how I can prefer to be off-stream (no systemd, no wayland, and Xlibre coming at some point...?), while at the same time I encounter little resistance from going off-stream.

Truth is I am not even on MX yet, I am on Windows 10 LTSC IoT right now. I also was on Mint & CachyOS for some time as well. I installed & explored, tested, MX and antiX enough times that I know may way on these OS-es, using an old laptop as my test subject.

And the question that's been waiting for: is XanMod kernel worth it? Afaik, it provides a build for v2 (good, I have a Sandy Bridge CPu) which is LTS of kernel 6.18 and auto updates via their PPA. This sounds really nice. I am interested in this kernel because I want to maximize both the performance of my system while gaming, and the longevity of my Pascal GPU.

I am a ex Mint, CachyOS, and Windows 10 (currently using it) user. I plan to at some point migrate to MX. I have been playing with tens of distros from VMs, dual boots, and a test-subject laptop - and I gotta say it gotta be this one. I need some help deciding the final partition sizes, I am very tight on storage capacity.

My SSD is Adata SU 650 Ultimate. 256GB, SATA III QLC, 3D Nand. The cache fills too fast and is overall a shit choice, but broke me could only afford this one. Please don't buy this crap.

My partition planning for MX Xfce AHS is as follows:

- esp (100mb);

- / (20gb);

- unnalocated space of 20gb (if I need to expand / or home via a live system + gparted);

- home (10gb ??);

- Games & Projects (everything else);