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I've been curious about antiX ever since I installed MX Linux on my laptop. MX Linux says it's a "collaborative effort between antiX and MX" -- it seems like a slightly heavier version of antiX, using XFCE instead of IceWM for the desktop, but otherwise leaning towards lower resource use.
The one thing keeping me from checking out antiX is that I've just been liking MX Linux so much, it stopped me from distro hopping, and I just don't want to start again, haha.
MX Linux is my go-to for a modern-feeling system on older hardware (runs great on 15+ years old PCs, I installed it on a ThinkPad T22 a while ago and it ran fine). And XFCE is customizable enough that you can set it up so it feels familiar to either Windows or Mac users.
Yeah, I think XFCE is my new favorite desktop environment, regardless of which distribution I use in the future.
I use Cinnamon on my daily driver, but XFCE is my fallback for most other things. And I like a lot of the utilities that come with it (Thunar just feels right to me for some reason).