MX Linux Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• what happened to my linux mint laptop and how do I fix it?

  If you want something new you probably want to aim light. I'd opt for AntiX full version as it's very light, stable and comes with a variety of lightweight desktops, themes and other stuff to choose from at login. The sister project MXLinux could also be worth a look for a more traditional system, but I'd try the Fluxbox option to keep things light. Source: 12 months ago

• Installing MX Linux

  I'm getting an error of - Could not find file antiX/linuxfs - searched devices /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdb1 etc. Gives me an ooption to contact Bitjam at mxlinux.org and then says P=power off, r=reboot. I've tried to look around but I'm not finding any details on what's going on. There was a mention of bad hardware, but if my other ISO's are booting no problem I dont think that is the issue. Source: 12 months ago

• Arch, void or something else entirely?

  I thought I would never say this, but I think you should try the KDE edition of https://mxlinux.org/. Source: 12 months ago

• Linux "beginner" in search of a Linux distro

  I tried so many Fedora, Linux mint, Ubuntu, Manjaro, Debian, Arch Linux, Opensuse Tumbleweed . And so on actually pretty much everything off Distro watch, YouTube , and any others I head about. And I found something I liked by each version. I'm kind thinking sticking with Manjaro, tumbleweed, Linux mint, Ubuntu, or Fedora. So honestly I can give opinions on each distribution. But you want a Kde plasma. A lot of... Source: 12 months ago

• Can this work? Hesitantly considering Linux

  Give MXLinux (https://mxlinux.org/) a go. Can be installed to an external drive, and changes are persistant. Source: about 1 year ago

• I am installing Ubuntu

  Try https://mxlinux.org/ or simply https://debian.org a year from today B-). Source: about 1 year ago

• Distro hopping to Alpine

  Just install MX-Linux then. No tweaks needed or reinstallations, it just works out of the box for many years without problems and it rock solid (Debian based). Alpine shining in containers as well on embedded devices or some dedicated servers where just a few programs works. Source: about 1 year ago

• Can I install and run Linux on a portable SSD?

  Download some Linux ISO that supports persistence for live mode, like MXLinux and save it to data. Source: about 1 year ago

• Linux users - What according to you is a good Linux distro for new to intermittent user?

  MXLinux is Debian-based and has a KDE version. It has a suite of GUI utilities called MXTools for carrying out various tasks that often have to be done via command line with other distors. Source: about 1 year ago

• I keep trying so many Distros

  MX has some built in rice options, is stable and should work out of the box. Source: about 1 year ago

• what is the best version of Linux to put on this computer?

  I had a very pleasant experience with MxLinux (https://mxlinux.org/). Based on Debian, using Xfce by default, has several built-in tools to ease the migration to Linux. Excellent overall. Source: about 1 year ago

• Is this project dead and if so why oh why?

  There has been work done as of July 2022 (http://git.fluxbox.org/fluxbox.git/log/). I run MX Linux Fluxbox and love it (https://mxlinux.org/). Source: about 1 year ago

• Distro for low pc

  MX Linux has their customized Plasma & Fluxbox edition that looks beautiful & suites all your needs. Source: about 1 year ago

• Distro recommendations for an old laptop?

  I run MX Linux (based on Debian) on all my computers and it comes in 32-bit and 64-bit versions. You can download the distro in XFCE (standard), KDE (advanced) or Fluxbox (low resource requirements) flavors. Source: about 1 year ago

• Does there exist a distro like this?

  Mx Linux has a really easy to configure and setup tool included for making live persistent usb systems from your currently running OS. This is probably the most straightforward and easy of the ways to achieve what you are asking about. Source: about 1 year ago

• Is mx linux a serious distro?

  MX Linux has a good reputation in general. I'd suggest that you carefully review the MX Linux website, which will provide information about origins, team, support resources, history and design philosophy. Another thing you might want to do is read the most recent 50-odd reviews on Distrowatch, to get a sense of the good, the bad and the ugly. Source: about 1 year ago

• What OS or OS's could I put on an old Dell Inspiron 15R 5010-2898

  For distro, try XFCE or Fluxbox flavors of https://mxlinux.org. Or EndeavorOS. Source: about 1 year ago

• Ask HN: What Next After Ubuntu?

  It's a very subjective question, depending on stuff like how much you care to update the system, but I'd say: you might like https://mxlinux.org/ which has seen growing popularity, it's based on debian stable, but with more up to date software, and ability to use newer kernels in case you need better hardware support for very new hardware you might also just run normal debian, if you don't care for latest versions... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Need Mentorship

  MX: Developed by the MX community and the AntiX community, it based in debian, and it aims to be a system with an elegant desktop, simple configuration, stability and medium size. It comes with either KDE Plasma, Xfce or Fluxbox (another desktop environment), and it has a new version every time debian pushes a new major version, with some point releases here and there. Source: over 1 year ago

• I am trying to download LMDE 5 Xfce 32bit for an old laptop (not for myself but for someone). All the mirrors return 404.

  You could try mxlinux or Debian. They both have 32-bit iso's available in their current stable release. Source: over 1 year ago

• More on the laptop saga.

  This is where the fun starts. I have a Mint 21 USB and that boots just fine. I used dd to make the Windows drive, didn't boot. I tried different versions of Windows (from dubious looking sources, but whatever) wouldn't boot. I discovered I had a Windows 8.1 ISO I downloaded previously, I think it was for my daughter to help with an upgrade and was probably legit from Microsoft. Wouldn't boot. Just for a test, I... Source: over 1 year ago