I have been using MX Linux for a number of years and it is very stable and smooth to use.the amount of apps and special tools is amazing and you can make it look just the way you like.
Of course, it does. You can also download the AHS version like I already mentioned in the video that offers a much later kernel for enablement of gaming.
The very BEST function in MX is snapshot. You can quickly and easily, make a usb stick with your entire, exact computer containing all setups , ready to use, to carry anywhere. You can plug it into ANY computer at work or anywhere, and theres your entire pc ready to go, just how you use it at home.
I am not sure you have experience with this, but can you create a snapshot that will include your settings (panel arrangement, themes, settings for some apps, ...) but not your data? As I understand from trying the feature, the only way to do this is to disable saving user data, but then any new user will have his default settings copied from /etc/skel. Is it how you would do it? You have to populate /etc/skel (manually or using your own script) before taking the snapshot?
@@fixups6536 there is a checkbox, around bottom left from memory, that says something like "for distribution" and it WONT contain any of your data. Also there is many checkboxes to disregard certain things such as "home folder" or "music folder" etc.
@@jimw7916Yes, I know that. I have tried the feature. I have even created a respin (from a virtual machine). But when booting up the respin, the user has not retained any of the settings I had painfully chosen (color theme, windows decorations, default settings for the file manager and so on). The ability to respin a distro is great to set up several computers so they have all the same settings. You set up various things, and then after the install these settings are carried on from your "master" computer, so you save a lot of time. It looks like the way to do it is to populate /etc/skel by cherry picking config files from your home directory and copuing them there. But I guess you have not used the respin utility to do that.
Fedora with KDE Plasma is my daily driver. The upcoming advance to KDE Plasma 6 will be great- but major desktop environment releases make me a little nervous. Fedora is 95% as "cutting edge" as Arch so I'd be an early adopter of Plasma 6. I've been looking at maybe installing MX Plasma on another SSD to get the short delay to the Plasma 6 upgrade to give a time cushion for any possible bugs. I've used MX in a virtual machine for a while now and love it.
I LOVE SNAPSHOT and the ISO maker that lets you make an actual ISO of YOUR OWN custom setup version of this... that's great-- wish I could do that with ALL the distros I use. They said the tool here will let you do that- but I haven't figured out how..
This is one of 4 distros I have now.. ( I multiboot).. and has some POWERFUL tools-- easy to use- VERY FAST.. and just GREAT. ONE of the only ones I've NEVER had any issues with-- NOT ONE!!
I just installed it on a 2009 Intel Atom 1.6GHz dual-core 32bit system with 2GB MAX RAM and a 250GB spinning disk system. It's an ancient "Nettop" from MSI called the Wind PC. It's slower than whatever under windows unless you have as far back as XP Pro with all the fancy stuff turned off so it looks like Windows 2000 Workstation (which you might as well just use 2000 Workstation at that point!) I've tried so many distros on this so far. Practically everything Debian based - all the *ubuntus, Linux Mint Cinnamon (actually started with 17.1 I think in 2014) Puppy Linux, PeppermintOS, Q4OS, even OpenSuse 32bit. I'm hoping MX Linux will be the last distro I have to put on here. All the others got to be too big or something's not usable for it because "drivers" so I'm really hoping... The spinning disk hard drive I had all the other distros on after the initial Mint Cinnamon 17 finally just died. The dreaded "click of death" on a 200GB Seagate "certified repaired" disk. (I somehow never saw that label back in 2009!!!) So... here's hoping!
You're not going to get rid of driver issues on something that old by distribution hopping. If it isn't supported by now, you would have to probably write the drivers yourself
I couldn't install it with NVIDIA drivers. It just gave a blank screen. Also xfce mouse over controls especially to expand the windows is completed dated and doesn't feel smooth. I used to use MXlinux by now its feels completely dated and no one will will use 5 file managers so that option is redundant. But their software center is very well flushed out.
99% of distributions don't work out of the box with NVIDIA drivers. Been like that since as long as I have been using Linux kernels and that's over 24 years at this point so it's not a thing that is getting "fixed". Best you can do is either install Nvidia prime or Bumblebee depending on the hardware and hope for the best. Also, it's not going to work on Wayland. Gotta use X11
Ubuntu is probably the most popular, followed by either Fedora or Mint. Probably because those distributions have massive marketing strategies and corporate support. Gentoo and openSUSE and those kind of distros don't market themselves as Windows Replacements so they're not as popular. If I had to guess the most popular distribution outside of those three, it would probably be Arch
@iverseI'm trying to answer, but my comment disappears every time. I'll try again later to see if it makes any difference. It's a long answer, maybe it's too long. Apparently this comment has not disappeared, so... I don't know what's wrong.
@@GsMultiverseNope... Sorry. I can't post my answer for a reason I don't understand. It goes through, it is posted and I can see it in the comments, and then when I refresh the page it has disappeared. I was trying to suggest a number of things, but I'm done with this.
@@GsMultiverseOK, here's a summary of my 2-pages long version, but all examples and nuances are lost: you don't provide value if you don't go deep and try the distro yourself for a few days. What you say in your video, I can also learn, mostly, from the release announcement on MX Linux website. All distros look beautiful when you do the first tour, as you did. But there are problems eventually, and that's were the interesting stuff starts. In other words, you are showing us a beautiful sports car, but you drive it in first gear for 20 minutes. You are not the only one to fall in this trap, so don't take it personally. I hope you get my point and that my comment will not automagically disappear this time.
I have been using MX Linux for a number of years and it is very stable and smooth to use.the amount of apps and special tools is amazing and you can make it look just the way you like.
Yeah, I was amazed when I was going through the software center. My jaw dropped, literally
Does it game ok
Of course, it does. You can also download the AHS version like I already mentioned in the video that offers a much later kernel for enablement of gaming.
The very BEST function in MX is snapshot. You can quickly and easily, make a usb stick with your entire, exact computer containing all setups , ready to use, to carry anywhere. You can plug it into ANY computer at work or anywhere, and theres your entire pc ready to go, just how you use it at home.
I am not sure you have experience with this, but can you create a snapshot that will include your settings (panel arrangement, themes, settings for some apps, ...) but not your data? As I understand from trying the feature, the only way to do this is to disable saving user data, but then any new user will have his default settings copied from /etc/skel. Is it how you would do it? You have to populate /etc/skel (manually or using your own script) before taking the snapshot?
@@fixups6536 there is a box to tick that says that the iso is for distribution (no data).... from memory its around the bottom left screen
@@fixups6536 there is a checkbox, around bottom left from memory, that says something like "for distribution" and it WONT contain any of your data. Also there is many checkboxes to disregard certain things such as "home folder" or "music folder" etc.
@@jimw7916Yes, I know that. I have tried the feature. I have even created a respin (from a virtual machine). But when booting up the respin, the user has not retained any of the settings I had painfully chosen (color theme, windows decorations, default settings for the file manager and so on). The ability to respin a distro is great to set up several computers so they have all the same settings. You set up various things, and then after the install these settings are carried on from your "master" computer, so you save a lot of time. It looks like the way to do it is to populate /etc/skel by cherry picking config files from your home directory and copuing them there. But I guess you have not used the respin utility to do that.
Fedora with KDE Plasma is my daily driver. The upcoming advance to KDE Plasma 6 will be great- but major desktop environment releases make me a little nervous. Fedora is 95% as "cutting edge" as Arch so I'd be an early adopter of Plasma 6.
I've been looking at maybe installing MX Plasma on another SSD to get the short delay to the Plasma 6 upgrade to give a time cushion for any possible bugs. I've used MX in a virtual machine for a while now and love it.
I LOVE SNAPSHOT and the ISO maker that lets you make an actual ISO of YOUR OWN custom setup version of this... that's great-- wish I could do that with ALL the distros I use. They said the tool here will let you do that- but I haven't figured out how..
This is one of 4 distros I have now.. ( I multiboot).. and has some POWERFUL tools-- easy to use- VERY FAST.. and just GREAT. ONE of the only ones I've NEVER had any issues with-- NOT ONE!!
will dragging an application to the desktop create a shortcut ? Creating a desktop icon (shortcut) is a nightmare in gnome.
I use MX 3.1 on an Atomic Pi. Wonderful OS. Been using it for years.
I just installed it on a 2009 Intel Atom 1.6GHz dual-core 32bit system with 2GB MAX RAM and a 250GB spinning disk system. It's an ancient "Nettop" from MSI called the Wind PC. It's slower than whatever under windows unless you have as far back as XP Pro with all the fancy stuff turned off so it looks like Windows 2000 Workstation (which you might as well just use 2000 Workstation at that point!) I've tried so many distros on this so far. Practically everything Debian based - all the *ubuntus, Linux Mint Cinnamon (actually started with 17.1 I think in 2014) Puppy Linux, PeppermintOS, Q4OS, even OpenSuse 32bit.
I'm hoping MX Linux will be the last distro I have to put on here. All the others got to be too big or something's not usable for it because "drivers" so I'm really hoping...
The spinning disk hard drive I had all the other distros on after the initial Mint Cinnamon 17 finally just died. The dreaded "click of death" on a 200GB Seagate "certified repaired" disk. (I somehow never saw that label back in 2009!!!)
So... here's hoping!
You're not going to get rid of driver issues on something that old by distribution hopping. If it isn't supported by now, you would have to probably write the drivers yourself
I think its Gorgeous its making me rethink using Pop Os
Good for you mate :)
I loved mx linux until i hit the update notification after rebooting the screen turns black. Went back to kubuntu
how to install it with another distro linux?i want to have 2 distro 's..dual boot..
Most installers give you the option to install alongside another distro... Unless you wanna manually setup partitions
@@GsMultiverse i'm trying,but somethink gone wrong...can you make a video how to do It?🤷🏼♂️
I really miss gestures or hot corners here, aside from that, awesome distro.
Feel ya. I'm big on gestures
Wallpapers>features, am I right? 🎄 🌸
Hehehe
I couldn't install it with NVIDIA drivers. It just gave a blank screen. Also xfce mouse over controls especially to expand the windows is completed dated and doesn't feel smooth. I used to use MXlinux by now its feels completely dated and no one will will use 5 file managers so that option is redundant. But their software center is very well flushed out.
99% of distributions don't work out of the box with NVIDIA drivers. Been like that since as long as I have been using Linux kernels and that's over 24 years at this point so it's not a thing that is getting "fixed". Best you can do is either install Nvidia prime or Bumblebee depending on the hardware and hope for the best. Also, it's not going to work on Wayland. Gotta use X11
I hate how they have the panel on the left!!
It can be moved with two clicks. Explained in the Welcome and FAQ linked on desktop. Some people like it as it puts more on screen in long documents.
MX cannot possibly be the most popular distro lol. I guess your sample size were your linux nerd friends 🤣
Cool content tho, subd!
None of my friends know or have any interest in Linux. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ My reasoning for the title was that it ranks #1 in Distrowatch
According to Distrowatch it is, but take Distrowatch with a grain of salt😉
According to distrowatch it is.
Ik dude. It's to improve the SEO of the title
Ubuntu is probably the most popular, followed by either Fedora or Mint. Probably because those distributions have massive marketing strategies and corporate support. Gentoo and openSUSE and those kind of distros don't market themselves as Windows Replacements so they're not as popular. If I had to guess the most popular distribution outside of those three, it would probably be Arch
What you're doing here I can do by downloading the ISO and running it myself (which I have already done). You are not bringing any additional value.
So what could I have done differently to bring some additional value to you
@iverseI'm trying to answer, but my comment disappears every time. I'll try again later to see if it makes any difference. It's a long answer, maybe it's too long. Apparently this comment has not disappeared, so... I don't know what's wrong.
@@GsMultiverseNope... Sorry. I can't post my answer for a reason I don't understand. It goes through, it is posted and I can see it in the comments, and then when I refresh the page it has disappeared. I was trying to suggest a number of things, but I'm done with this.
@fixups6536 that's okay. I appreciate the effort :)
@@GsMultiverseOK, here's a summary of my 2-pages long version, but all examples and nuances are lost: you don't provide value if you don't go deep and try the distro yourself for a few days. What you say in your video, I can also learn, mostly, from the release announcement on MX Linux website. All distros look beautiful when you do the first tour, as you did. But there are problems eventually, and that's were the interesting stuff starts. In other words, you are showing us a beautiful sports car, but you drive it in first gear for 20 minutes. You are not the only one to fall in this trap, so don't take it personally. I hope you get my point and that my comment will not automagically disappear this time.
"The most popular linux distro" that no one ever heared about
its the most popular only on distrowatch lmfao
everyone else mostly only knows ubuntu, arch or fedora
A more accurate tittle would be "The most clicked linux distro on distrowatch"
Lol, agreed.