[PLUG] Suggested distro for a new Dell 2-in-1? Anyone heard of "MX Linux"?

[Greg Helledy <gregsonh@gra-inc.com>]

I use Linux Mint 17 on my main desktop at home, and in a VM at work. 
I've been a KDE user since forever and Mint has put effort into making 
KDE work well (unlike on Debian, which I used for many years despite KDE 
being an afterthought there).

I'm quite happy with it but am not sure what to put on a piece of new 
hardware I've treated myself to.  The two reasons Mint isn't the 
automatic choice are:
1.  In order to have any chance of having all the hardware work (like 
automatic screen rotation), I'm going to need a very recent kernel. 
Mint 17 has me on a 3.19 kernel, which I know won't be new enough.  The 
kernel installer (I do love the Mint tools) does offer 4.2 and 4.4 
releases I could try.
2.  To a lesser extent, I'm concerned about the spread of systemd, which 
Mint includes, from Ubuntu and Debian.

Poking around, I came across a distro called MX Linux, which is kind of 
a joint venture between AntiX and Mepis.  It's on a list of non-systemd 
distros:
http://www.gabordemooij.com/index.php?p=/escape_from_systemd

I've been playing around with it in a VM and it seems ok, but I'm 
hesitant to consider a small distro I've never heard of before.  Has 
anyone ever used MX Linux?
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/mx/
It installs a backported Debian 4.4 kernel.

I spent time playing around with PC-BSD in a VM, and it seemed fine 
although I never got to the point of understanding how the linux 
compatibility worked.  Unfortunately, my fun came to an end when a new 
version was released (I had downloaded 10.1, the updater suggested I 
upgrade to 10.2).  I said ok, the system deleted 800+ packages (I 
assumed to replace them with newer versions) and stopped.  I now have no 
GUI and no idea what to do.  I think I'd better stick with linux as I 
don't have the time to learn a new OS to the point of being able to 
repair stuff like this.

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Greg Helledy
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