Deepin OS vs MX Linux

The desktop interface and apps feature an intuitive and elegant design. Moving around, sharing and searching, etc. has become simply a joyful experience.

Having Deepin installed also means you have thousands of quality apps to choose from. The apps which come with installation will suit your needs to browse the Internet, listen to music, watch videos, talk with friends, editing documents or simply any task you want to do at home or in your office.

It's very easy to use. You can easily uninstall a program by going to the menu then right-clicking on the preferred app and selecting "Uninstall" option.

Deepin has a blur and transparent design throughout the OS, which makes it one of the most beautiful Linux distros.

Installing Deepin OS is very easy. Even easier than installing Ubuntu!

Deepin OS supports Flatpak. It also has some Flatpak programs installed by default.

Deepin OS includes a program called "Deepin Graphics Driver Manager" which can easily install a good driver for the graphics card.

Since it is based on Debian stable, you will hardly ever get a dependency issue.

It is based on Debian which is the best Linux distribution for desktops.

By default, Deepin looks kinda like macOS but it can be made to look like Windows by right-clicking on the dock and changing the mode from "Fashion Mode" to "Efficient Mode".

It is a rolling release Linux distribution which is quite popular these days.

The app store is gorgeous.

It has its own toolkit called "Deepin Tool Kit". And the maintainers themselves use it.

In some cases, VLC media player has some problems with Ubuntu or Ubuntu-based Linux distros. That isn't the case with Deepin.

Deepin has a sane default set of apps including custom apps of their own design that gives the distro a very consistent look and feel. By working with the community on these tools as well as custom translations there is a great sense of polish when using it that is not often seen when using such a new desktop environment.

Programs load and launch faster in Deepin than other Linux distributions. It takes only about 3 seconds to launch Chrome.

The Wuhan Deepin Technology is behind this Linux distribution.

Deepin has the facilities to create VLAN and other configuration like Wifi Hostpot on their GUI.

Deepin 15.7 is lighter than Windows 10 and Ubuntu.

The official repository of deepin OS includes over 73,000 packages.

It has some exciting applications, such as Deepin Graphics Driver Manager which can easily change between free and proprietary drivers without any issue.

Deepin automatically cleans package cache. Cleaning package cache is a good thing as it will make the OS much faster and lighter.

Deepin uses their own modified version of apt. When there is a distribution upgrade available and if we try to upgrade by running "sudo apt upgrade", then this modified version of apt gives this warning message, "DDE programs will work abnormally if run this command. Run sudo apt dist-upgrade or sudo apt full-upgrade instead."

Some people don't like Ubuntu nor its derivatives.

Easy to install, comes with default packages to typical needs e.g. Chrome, WPS office, System Monitor and a bunch of multimedia utilities. Its easy to install and uninstall applications, it has a great app store and is fast. On same laptop run much faster than Windows 10 did.

Can create your own ISO (snapshot) and use it either as live-session and install back when needed.

With the (pre-installed) Snapshot tool you can easily create an ISO of your running system and then save it to a USB (or other media) and use "your own" distro as a live session or install back whenever you like (even on a different PC with different specs with no issues). You can even give that customized ISO to friends (selecting "non-personal" ISO when creating the snapshot; thus resetting the accounts & passwords and Home folder etc.).

Also you can save that ISO directly encrypted via MX Live USB Maker tool. Again, you can install MX encrypted during installation with just ticking a box, no matter if it's the official ISO or your snapshot.

MX Linux comes with its own set of tools called MX Tools, designed to make life easier for users.

It is based on Debian and not based on Ubuntu.

It has almost all tools to repair non booting systems or recover files & folders and save them on a safe place. And when thought together with it starts quick on live-session. In addition, you can do these with "your own", customized distro (snapshot).

After Puppy Linux (which's aimed to run from RAM and which is smaller in size) the second fastest (head & shoulders) booting one (together with the sister project antiX) and also has the option "toram" to run from RAM. Yes, not only when compared to full distros, even far faster than small sized or tiny distros, especially when booted to "live-session", about 2 - 2.5 times faster on an old single core laptop.