The easier setup I found is Xfce with WM swapped for BSPWM. You can do every window manipulation with mouse (while Super key pressed).

Yes, mpv can do lot of things without any display server

My Lenovo from 2015 has an option to fallback to Bios. And I used it.

Personally, I haven’t had any issues with the aspect ratio. I use a spiral algorithm, this is the defaut on bspwm. I suspect that many people that try twm dont use spiral splitting so windows can be opened in tiny slice and this is ridiculous of course.

I3 or Sway are not the best choice IMHO. Many people think about these WM when they talk about tilling as an overhyped feature used just for unixporn posts. Stop with I3 or Sway please. AwesomeWM or Qtile are more automatised, this is a great added value allowed by tilling for everyday use.

MX is a new name for Mepis. Part of MX and AntiX contributors are the same persons. MX got kernel compiled by AntiX, that particularily suits old hardware. Also the Xfce setup is more modern comparing to the default provided by Debian.

I use MX since years. I did distrohopping before, started by Manjaro then Mint, NixOS, MX, Alpine… One day Archlabs, my distro at the time, was closed, I had to switch quickly and MX was an obvious choice because I can have a nice Xfce setup out of the box and it was the most reliable of all distro I tried without being a fork of a fork like Mint. One day I asked about a package update on the forum, and a maintainer quickly answered me that it shouldnt be a problem and the package was added in some test repo. MX is not a scam, I dont know why this distro dont make noise on the classic linux places, maybe because Mint took the place of the easy beginner distro ? Or also the average MX prefer to use its computer to do stuff, than talking about his OS on the internet 😆

Too much people, including some popular youtuber, dont understand how tilling WMs make life easier.

They aren’t on my Arch linux with Guix package manager

Why Guix packages are unsuitable for graphical desktop apps ?

That’s a joke…I remember downloading opensuse, there was a warning that forbids me to use if I was in a country targeted by the USA something like that 😆 IMO, If you really want independance dont use things from corporations. Many people complains about overstaffing in administrations, so why not have them work on a distro from scratch ?

You can make KDE looking like Mac OS with a bit of tweakings. The advantage is the possibilty to change your setup without replacing your DE.

Since I was tired of distro hopping I just use MX Linux.

I tried too many distros.

I’m attracted by Alpine Linux, but it lacks an official way to use glibc for the programs that unfortunately use some glibc extension…

I never encountered bugs, but I don’t use multiple monitors.

I3/Sway seems to be popular, but I was disapointed when I tried them. I prefer Bspwm because windows are always spawned with a good height/width ratio. Computers are useful because of the automation capability, so it make no sense to use a WM without any automation.

Use Vivarium instead, it works and it is very featured !

Reddit is unified, Lemmy has a small layer of complexity on top and “sh.itjust.works” is a weird name, maybe the Lemmy system drives to such complicated names. Its not a big deal but I add that to the other causes.

Look at the reddit called “unixporn” and search for Xfce. You ll see what’s possible with Xfce. For me the KDE crashes are a dealbreaker. My Xfce setup is so simplified, that nothing can be ugly. I use Bspwm for the windows and stripped down Xfce panel (dont touch third party status bars, such as polybar, its waste of time if you already have Xfce). No menu such as Whisker menu, but Rofi instead. I got Xfce stability without the old looking.