It is like Nix, but cleaner.

There is not much choice for drawing diagrams, dia is old school and draw.io is big.

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.

You can also use a light browser such as Qutebrowser.

If you are in sciences, and happy to learn a new PL, I think you ll enjoy functional programming, even if it is not the most popular way. https://ocaml.org/docs/is-ocaml-gui-yet

The website looks cool.

There is nothing better than Xfce, if you dont like the desktop, at least Xfce allows you to customize. KDE seems interesting, but the last time i tried it, 10 years ago more or less, it was a bit buggy.

I prefer a glibc replacement.

Have you tried Mac OS ? It is probably more polished than distros and less enshittified than Windows.