0:47: 💻 Overview of MX Linux 23.2 features, stability, and desktop environment preferences. 3:09: ⚙️ MX Linux 23.2 introduces new features and updates including Pipewire 1.0, new wallpaper, language updates, and kernel advancements. 6:01: 💻 MX Linux 23.2 offers advanced system maintenance tools like disk cleanup, system snapshots, and improved USB writer. 8:58: 🎨 Introduction of customizable theme files and easy package installers in MX Linux 23.2. 11:52: 💻 Overview of desktop environments, software, and settings available in MX Linux 23.2. Timestamps by Tammy AI
I don't mind MX Linux it's quite good. The main reason I'm sticking with LMDE is the easy upgrade tool Mint has when the Debian base changes. If MX had such a tool I'd consider it for some of my other machines
I agree. I ran MX for the better part of two years back before/during the pandemic, and enjoyed it, but both Mint and LMDE are more pleasant to me on a few levels, functionally and appearance-wise. They just feel better. Little details make a better experience.
I've been using MX Linux 23 since release. The MX tools are what attracted me to it. I'm not a fan of XFCE, it's fine, it just not to my tastes. I found KDE to be too laggy for my Optiplex mini, but I did manage to find cinnamon in on one of the tabs in the installer and that is what I've been using. I have a Brother printer and couldn't use it with any of the Arch based distros that I tried. That was a deal breaker. It is my main driver. It works very well and is very stable. I've stopped distro hopping with this one. Kudos to the MX Linux team.
I assume you got the Brother going with MX, but if you didn't I got the driver directly from the Brother website. It's a little trick to install but no big deal. Having communicated with Paul there, he told me that Brother was committed to Linux, and will be in the future revamping their driver install to make it less inconvenient. Kind of irks me that MANY Linux distros come with built-in HP support, but never a neat, clean Brother setup. Crazy thing about Arch, when I hopped Big Linux and Garuda last year, I was surprised when both of those found and set up my Brother with no input from me. In later distros I tried to find and use whatever apps BL and Garuda used to duplicate that nice experience, but no luck.
I have a refurbished Dell 5050 Optiplex mini that runs MX since last Wednesday. Compared to KDE neon that I used till the Plasma 6 upgrade disaster on Wednesday, it runs smooth and uses much less memory than neon.
I had a MX version for RPI ran great was prior to bookworm, when BW came out RPI had lots of issues with videos and codecs, especially with RUclips vids. Been using POP OS for Pi for a year, no issues.
I am also a Mint lover. I tried MX many times in the past but had issues with my dual gpu laptops. I recently decided to give it another try. It now works flawlessly with my AMD/NVidia dual graphics laptops. Don't know what they did but it made me happy to see that i longer have issues with NVidia drivers crashing the system. Glad to see that you took a look at MX 23.2. I have installed it on a second older laptop with Intel/NVidia hybrid gpu's and am enjoying it very much. It is very snappy and stable.
Im new to linux, do you have any thoughts on a content/internet filter that works well on MX Linux? Thanks for all your videos, Im learning a lot! I did notice that in one of your videos you mentioned that Ubuntu CE has content filters built in when you install it but I didnt know if MX has them as well
Hi Tom. Thanks for the info. MX on raspi... That's great! MX is my favorite OS and I've got it installed on all of my PC's. Even if it has sometimes some hiccups it simply just works.
I don't recall when I first heard of MX Linux, but when I was looking for a small 32-bit distro for my old EeePC from 2009, I found out that AntiX was just what I was looking for and that MX Linux was kind of the successor, or a project spawned from that distro. That's why you'll find some of the same tools, or similar looking in MX Linux. MX Linux had a slightly larger memory usage so at the time I wasn't interested in that when all I had was 1 GB RAM for everything. But knowing they're related, I knew I decided I was definitely going to give it a better chance at some point. But it didn't last more than a couple of days until I switched completely to MX Linux on my desktop and has mostly ditched Windows. I do occasionally need to boot into Windows when some audio capture stuff doesn't work with discord and I stream with friends, but that's alright for now. Hopefully I'll learn how to circumvent that at one point. So yeah, long story short, as a Windows refugee I can say that MX Linux is a distro worth trying out. Loads of extra tools that makes the transition easier.
I tried it from live usb. Things seems to be working just fine (on a 2007 hp 32bit laptop with 2 core cpu and 3GB of RAM) MX tools are a great addition. Rich documentation. Xfce something I can get use to.
@mravg79 Yeah MX Linux themed XFCE looks nice, and I've since upgraded my old EeePC netbook to 2 GB (unsurprisingly cheap 😅), so I might consider giving it that OS upgrade to MX.
I love MX Linux. I have run both the XFCE and KDE version, with the latter being my current favorite. I have also used their sister Distro, AntiX Linux, in the past. I have an N4020 Asus Craptop with MX KDE, and I also run it on my Ryzen based desktop.
I tried MX for weeks along with LMDE, Tit for Tat, I found LMDE to be superior, is now my go -to distro. VERY VERY CLOSE , soo your own opinion should govern YOUR choice.
Looks cool, I've never tried it personally because I'm not a fan of KDE or XFCE. I do love Gnome and Cinnamon however, so either Debian with Gnome, or LMDE are my go to distros now adays.
@@deultimaI get that but as a Windows refugee I've never taken to Gnome. I can see how it can be more productive, but it's just not my groove. The point is though that Cinnamon is pretty flexible for sure.
I get that for sure, I hated Gnome when I first tried it. It really does take some time to get used to, but once you do it's amazing. My point was more along the lines of the core technologies, as Cinnamon is a fork of Gnome 3. However, they are both very customisable, not only can you make Cinnamon look like Gnome like I do, but it's also possible to build a Windows like look and feel for Gnome if that's what you're more into with a couple extensions.@@k.b.tidwell
I've always found MX to be fragile and broken it normally within a few days. Also it would be nice if the MX team would spend at least 5-10 mins to make it not look like Windows 95. I like the idea of the MX tools and I think these should be a standalone package for other distros. The MX tools are pretty much the only thing I like about MX.
@@jimw7916 Bullshit! Its broken on me every single time. Meanwhile my Zorin, Linux Mint and Manjaro machines are still going up to 4 years now. MX has good ideas with the tools but the distro itself is garbage.
I tried Mint since yesterday and I'm just before giving up. I need it for productivity, especially for multiple SSH connection. EasySSH not working.. (wasted alot of time for that) - Remmina copy paste problem (wasted time for that one too). Putty seems not having username/password stuff). Brave (browser) wants always password when starting. Conky Manager not installable (need a ping GUI). Thats alot of things come together. Now searching trying other Distros..
Why are you trying ssh applications? All Linux distros have a terminal with SSH already ready to go. For multiple ssh sessions, just open up another terminal window.
@@jimw7916 If you want a ready made out of the box Distro it might be better. But I don't want that. I like a bare bones vanilla system that I can customize myself. With most distros I try, I find that I spend more time changing and removing packages and customizations then I spend customizing a vanilla base distro. MX is a fine distro. But I have my own way of doing things and a bare bones Debian installation allows me to do it my way. When I initially install Debian, I don't even install a desktop environment. At least not from the installer, because those come with extra packages and configurations. Maybe I don't want those. So Instead I install just the base. It boots up to a TTY. And from there I manually install my desktop and packages. I get Everything I want, with nothing I don't. This is how i like to do things. So distros like MX and Mint, they just don't work for me. That being said, if you want a Distro that's fully featured and ready out of the box. Mint, MX_Linux, and similar systems are at the top of the list. They are top teir distros. I'm not arguing that. It's just not for me.
why do i have the feeling that mx linux is not a lightweight distro? let alone that has more clutter than needed.a xfce debian based distro that is not snappy, is not sth i would try.
maybe. i have never used kde. but i firmly believe that LMDE (if it ever gets to beof top priority) is the future of debian-based distros.@@johanb.7869
But ...in linux mint you can have a completely different color for each folder in your file manager. I love that feature in mint. All you do is right click on ANY folder and choose the color.
I love that change folder color feature, too! So "mundane" yet so useful! And if you use screenshots, here are some tips (beside the 'Print Screen'): 1- 'Shift+PrtSc' will activate the whole screen, now use the mouse to select specific area to SAVE as screenshot 2- 'Ctrl+Shift+PrtSc' will activate the whole screen, now use the mouse to select specific area to COPY to clipboard (imo, Mint is so 'near perfect' that I haven't distro-hopped since 2015-ish; last month found out about MX Linux and installed on my second laptop--XFCE is snappy but just not that visually appealing, but I do appreciate that Firewall is turned on by default and TLP is pre-installed)
I like MX for the tools, but in that area Garuda edges ahead for me. For total experience though I'm staying with Mint for now, because of super-huge availability of apps, the smoothness, and other details. Mint does feel markedly more put-together and finished in my opinion.
It's MY second favorite too-- I like SPARKY best..and always come back to it.. I do love CINAMON- but miss my TILING on it.. unless you know of a way to do AUTO- tiling on cinamon...(NOT keybanging crap- that's NOT auto- tiling).
My daily driver is Mint as well and has been for over a year but I tried MX on a virtual machine and liked it so much I put it on me secondary desktop and am considering putting on one of my laptops too instead of Mint. I have like 6 computers and a couple of servers I tinker with. I do actual work with my machines supporting retail IT for a living. I've been having an issue installing MX recently. The installer keeps saying media corrupted when I install. I found a way around it and the installed system works great so.... I dunno?
I really prefer LMDE 6 and do use it. I will very likely change to LMDE at some point. I just put MX linux on a chromebook because I'm curious. I have 6-10 machines that I use at different places or tasks. However there are locations and tasks I cannon keep changing around. My main desktop is like Mint 20.?? When it crashes who knows what my main will be maybe MX. I've discovered MX does not use systemd and have had issues getting remote access working. I'm just a year into being linux only. @@paxalotin
I tried live usb with like 5 distros. MX was the only one which managed to use WiFi on my two old laptops (2007 32bit hp and 2013 64bit dell). That is a big plus. Sure with other distros I will try to solve this issue but it is nice if thing work out of the box. And I will install it on the 2007 laptop as there is less and less distros which support 32bit (afaik).
MX the distro that games DistroWatch to top the charges with bots and also having hammer and sickle devs, yep let's keep promoting this distro to folks.
Any proof of this? I use mx linux but i admit the political aspects have put me off considerably (especially when looking at the antix site... wouldn't trust devs that depend on a wordpress site)
MX is the most overrated of them all and is not even on my list for the best Debian based distros: Crunchbangplusplus BunsenLabs LMDE SpiralLinux SparkyLinux Siduction
0:47: 💻 Overview of MX Linux 23.2 features, stability, and desktop environment preferences.
3:09: ⚙️ MX Linux 23.2 introduces new features and updates including Pipewire 1.0, new wallpaper, language updates, and kernel advancements.
6:01: 💻 MX Linux 23.2 offers advanced system maintenance tools like disk cleanup, system snapshots, and improved USB writer.
8:58: 🎨 Introduction of customizable theme files and easy package installers in MX Linux 23.2.
11:52: 💻 Overview of desktop environments, software, and settings available in MX Linux 23.2.
Timestamps by Tammy AI
Excellent video 👍 Thank you 💜
I don't mind MX Linux it's quite good. The main reason I'm sticking with LMDE is the easy upgrade tool Mint has when the Debian base changes. If MX had such a tool I'd consider it for some of my other machines
I agree. I ran MX for the better part of two years back before/during the pandemic, and enjoyed it, but both Mint and LMDE are more pleasant to me on a few levels, functionally and appearance-wise. They just feel better. Little details make a better experience.
I've been using MX Linux 23 since release. The MX tools are what attracted me to it.
I'm not a fan of XFCE, it's fine, it just not to my tastes. I found KDE to be too laggy for my Optiplex mini, but I did manage to find cinnamon in on one of the tabs in the installer and that is what I've been using.
I have a Brother printer and couldn't use it with any of the Arch based distros that I tried. That was a deal breaker.
It is my main driver. It works very well and is very stable. I've stopped distro hopping with this one. Kudos to the MX Linux team.
I've been curious about LMDE-6. What was the deciding factors that made you go with it?@@paxalotin
I assume you got the Brother going with MX, but if you didn't I got the driver directly from the Brother website. It's a little trick to install but no big deal. Having communicated with Paul there, he told me that Brother was committed to Linux, and will be in the future revamping their driver install to make it less inconvenient. Kind of irks me that MANY Linux distros come with built-in HP support, but never a neat, clean Brother setup.
Crazy thing about Arch, when I hopped Big Linux and Garuda last year, I was surprised when both of those found and set up my Brother with no input from me. In later distros I tried to find and use whatever apps BL and Garuda used to duplicate that nice experience, but no luck.
I have a refurbished Dell 5050 Optiplex mini that runs MX since last Wednesday. Compared to KDE neon that I used till the Plasma 6 upgrade disaster on Wednesday, it runs smooth and uses much less memory than neon.
I had a MX version for RPI ran great was prior to bookworm, when BW came out RPI had lots of issues with videos and codecs, especially with RUclips vids.
Been using POP OS for Pi for a year, no issues.
I am also a Mint lover. I tried MX many times in the past but had issues with my dual gpu laptops. I recently decided to give it another try. It now works flawlessly with my AMD/NVidia dual graphics laptops. Don't know what they did but it made me happy to see that i longer have issues with NVidia drivers crashing the system.
Glad to see that you took a look at MX 23.2. I have installed it on a second older laptop with Intel/NVidia hybrid gpu's and am enjoying it very much. It is very snappy and stable.
Nice video ❤
Im new to linux, do you have any thoughts on a content/internet filter that works well on MX Linux? Thanks for all your videos, Im learning a lot! I did notice that in one of your videos you mentioned that Ubuntu CE has content filters built in when you install it but I didnt know if MX has them as well
use custom DNS - i've been using NextDNS for half a year already and no issues with it
@@penguin2137 thanks very much for the feedback, Ill check it out 🙂
The AdBlocker system in MX Linux does a good job.
@@SwitchedtoLinux Thank you so much brother!
MX Linux is a joy to use. My 2nd favourite as well, after LMDE.
Hi Tom. Thanks for the info. MX on raspi... That's great!
MX is my favorite OS and I've got it installed on all of my PC's. Even if it has sometimes some hiccups it simply just works.
I don't recall when I first heard of MX Linux, but when I was looking for a small 32-bit distro for my old EeePC from 2009, I found out that AntiX was just what I was looking for and that MX Linux was kind of the successor, or a project spawned from that distro. That's why you'll find some of the same tools, or similar looking in MX Linux. MX Linux had a slightly larger memory usage so at the time I wasn't interested in that when all I had was 1 GB RAM for everything. But knowing they're related, I knew I decided I was definitely going to give it a better chance at some point. But it didn't last more than a couple of days until I switched completely to MX Linux on my desktop and has mostly ditched Windows. I do occasionally need to boot into Windows when some audio capture stuff doesn't work with discord and I stream with friends, but that's alright for now. Hopefully I'll learn how to circumvent that at one point.
So yeah, long story short, as a Windows refugee I can say that MX Linux is a distro worth trying out. Loads of extra tools that makes the transition easier.
I tried it from live usb. Things seems to be working just fine (on a 2007 hp 32bit laptop with 2 core cpu and 3GB of RAM)
MX tools are a great addition.
Rich documentation.
Xfce something I can get use to.
@mravg79 Yeah MX Linux themed XFCE looks nice, and I've since upgraded my old EeePC netbook to 2 GB (unsurprisingly cheap 😅), so I might consider giving it that OS upgrade to MX.
MX Linux forever!!!
BS
@@kpcraftster6580 For you, not for him.
@@johanb.7869 antifa fascists out in force to defend their distro huh 😏
It works for Me!
You should get T-Mobile 5g Home Internet as long as you have power you can take it with you anywhere as far as I know
It is geofenced. WIll only work where you ave service and will not work on 4G networks, so it only works in a central, static location
@@SwitchedtoLinux mine ist registered at my address because it wasn't officially available in my area and it works great at my house.
Older cars come equip with CD players...that's why we have CD burners.👍
I love MX Linux. I have run both the XFCE and KDE version, with the latter being my current favorite. I have also used their sister Distro, AntiX Linux, in the past. I have an N4020 Asus Craptop with MX KDE, and I also run it on my Ryzen based desktop.
I tried MX for weeks along with LMDE, Tit for Tat, I found LMDE to be superior, is now my go -to distro. VERY VERY CLOSE , soo your own opinion should govern YOUR choice.
Can you get ALL of the fonts that are available for example, in Windows, with a Linux distribution - like MX?
Yes and no. Technically yes, but some are not in a license you can use depending on your region and use.
This is a good video. Wish I could slow it down a bit. Some of the circling mouse pointer movement made me dizzy as hell.
maté? I'm EU and always thought MATE as in aussie... xD
A: Meal Mate, mate? B: Yeah mate.
Looks cool, I've never tried it personally because I'm not a fan of KDE or XFCE. I do love Gnome and Cinnamon however, so either Debian with Gnome, or LMDE are my go to distros now adays.
Cinnamon is like KDE-lite and XFCE Deluxe to me.😁 Better looking than XFCE but not so megalithic as KDE.
I've always considered Cinnamon more like Gnome-lite. In fact I setup Cinnamon to basically look like Gnome. :)@@k.b.tidwell
@@deultimaI get that but as a Windows refugee I've never taken to Gnome. I can see how it can be more productive, but it's just not my groove. The point is though that Cinnamon is pretty flexible for sure.
I get that for sure, I hated Gnome when I first tried it. It really does take some time to get used to, but once you do it's amazing. My point was more along the lines of the core technologies, as Cinnamon is a fork of Gnome 3. However, they are both very customisable, not only can you make Cinnamon look like Gnome like I do, but it's also possible to build a Windows like look and feel for Gnome if that's what you're more into with a couple extensions.@@k.b.tidwell
I've always found MX to be fragile and broken it normally within a few days. Also it would be nice if the MX team would spend at least 5-10 mins to make it not look like Windows 95. I like the idea of the MX tools and I think these should be a standalone package for other distros. The MX tools are pretty much the only thing I like about MX.
hahahaha "fragile" .... MX is handsdown the ONLY distro that will NEVER let you down ...NEVER!
@@jimw7916 Bullshit! Its broken on me every single time. Meanwhile my Zorin, Linux Mint and Manjaro machines are still going up to 4 years now.
MX has good ideas with the tools but the distro itself is garbage.
@@dragonballjiujitsu Its at THE TOP dumbo....... and its been there for years! its handsdown NUMBER ONE for RELIABILITY.
@@dragonballjiujitsu It's not garbage. You may not like it, but garbage, no.
@@johanb.7869 Any OS that can't last even a week without breaking is garbage. End of story.
I love it
I tried Mint since yesterday and I'm just before giving up. I need it for productivity, especially for multiple SSH connection. EasySSH not working.. (wasted alot of time for that) - Remmina copy paste problem (wasted time for that one too). Putty seems not having username/password stuff). Brave (browser) wants always password when starting. Conky Manager not installable (need a ping GUI).
Thats alot of things come together. Now searching trying other Distros..
Why are you trying ssh applications? All Linux distros have a terminal with SSH already ready to go. For multiple ssh sessions, just open up another terminal window.
@@SwitchedtoLinux Because I have multiple SSH connections. And want access them all with 1 click
How do I can remove the widget on the desktop right side on the top right side of the desktop it may be a clock
i've been daily driving MX for a year and it has never let me down.
especially the snapshot utility is a huge dealbreaker
The best Debian Distro is....... Debian. LOL!!! 😁
NOT TRUE ............ mx truly is way better than debian.
@@jimw7916 If you want a ready made out of the box Distro it might be better. But I don't want that. I like a bare bones vanilla system that I can customize myself. With most distros I try, I find that I spend more time changing and removing packages and customizations then I spend customizing a vanilla base distro. MX is a fine distro. But I have my own way of doing things and a bare bones Debian installation allows me to do it my way. When I initially install Debian, I don't even install a desktop environment. At least not from the installer, because those come with extra packages and configurations. Maybe I don't want those. So Instead I install just the base. It boots up to a TTY. And from there I manually install my desktop and packages. I get Everything I want, with nothing I don't. This is how i like to do things. So distros like MX and Mint, they just don't work for me.
That being said, if you want a Distro that's fully featured and ready out of the box. Mint, MX_Linux, and similar systems are at the top of the list. They are top teir distros. I'm not arguing that. It's just not for me.
Agree
Does anyone take LOLs seriously?
why do i have the feeling that mx linux is not a lightweight distro? let alone that has more clutter than needed.a xfce debian based distro that is not snappy, is not sth i would try.
Compared to KDE neon it is.
maybe. i have never used kde. but i firmly believe that LMDE (if it ever gets to beof top priority) is the future of debian-based distros.@@johanb.7869
But ...in linux mint you can have a completely different color for each folder in your file manager. I love that feature in mint. All you do is right click on ANY folder and choose the color.
You can do this in MX (Thunar File Manager).
@@grantxmcphee I tried it . It is very cumbersome to do and is not quite the same.
I love that change folder color feature, too! So "mundane" yet so useful! And if you use screenshots, here are some tips (beside the 'Print Screen'):
1- 'Shift+PrtSc' will activate the whole screen, now use the mouse to select specific area to SAVE as screenshot
2- 'Ctrl+Shift+PrtSc' will activate the whole screen, now use the mouse to select specific area to COPY to clipboard
(imo, Mint is so 'near perfect' that I haven't distro-hopped since 2015-ish; last month found out about MX Linux and installed on my second laptop--XFCE is snappy but just not that visually appealing, but I do appreciate that Firewall is turned on by default and TLP is pre-installed)
I like MX for the tools, but in that area Garuda edges ahead for me. For total experience though I'm staying with Mint for now, because of super-huge availability of apps, the smoothness, and other details. Mint does feel markedly more put-together and finished in my opinion.
It's MY second favorite too-- I like SPARKY best..and always come back to it.. I do love CINAMON- but miss my TILING on it.. unless you know of a way to do AUTO- tiling on cinamon...(NOT keybanging crap- that's NOT auto- tiling).
Installed MX on Wednesday after the upgrade disaster to Plasma 6 on KDE neon. MX runs like muck of a stick.
My daily driver is Mint as well and has been for over a year but I tried MX on a virtual machine and liked it so much I put it on me secondary desktop and am considering putting on one of my laptops too instead of Mint. I have like 6 computers and a couple of servers I tinker with. I do actual work with my machines supporting retail IT for a living. I've been having an issue installing MX recently. The installer keeps saying media corrupted when I install. I found a way around it and the installed system works great so.... I dunno?
I really prefer LMDE 6 and do use it. I will very likely change to LMDE at some point. I just put MX linux on a chromebook because I'm curious. I have 6-10 machines that I use at different places or tasks. However there are locations and tasks I cannon keep changing around. My main desktop is like Mint 20.?? When it crashes who knows what my main will be maybe MX. I've discovered MX does not use systemd and have had issues getting remote access working. I'm just a year into being linux only. @@paxalotin
APPARMOR not getting mounted
In short...not even close. I'd say that title would go to Linux Mint or Zorin OS. Maybe even Ubuntu. MX doesn't make the top 20.
LOL
Yeah MX sucks.
@@OpenBASED BS
I use I adore
I looked cinnamon is an one line install a way. I do not run mx linux update and cinnamon. This can be dun on one line.
Sorry, what?
what does that mean in English?
debian (good), mx (better), sparky (best) 😎
I've tried MX Linux a few times over the years, and while it's fine, it's just not for me, so give me Manjaro Gnome, or Solus Budgie.
Mxlinux has many realtek drivers in the repo so msny usb wifi work. Buntus don,t.
I tried live usb with like 5 distros. MX was the only one which managed to use WiFi on my two old laptops (2007 32bit hp and 2013 64bit dell). That is a big plus.
Sure with other distros I will try to solve this issue but it is nice if thing work out of the box. And I will install it on the 2007 laptop as there is less and less distros which support 32bit (afaik).
MX the distro that games DistroWatch to top the charges with bots and also having hammer and sickle devs, yep let's keep promoting this distro to folks.
Hear, hear. From the same clowns as antix.
Pin this comment please.
Any proof of this? I use mx linux but i admit the political aspects have put me off considerably (especially when looking at the antix site... wouldn't trust devs that depend on a wordpress site)
@@posrgl The same devs that are behind antiX are behind MX, or indirectly involved in both projects.
What is the issue with MX Devs?
@@briansrcadventures1316 Commies. R.I.P. to all the 110 million.
mx kde version is better
MX is the most overrated of them all and is not even on my list for the best Debian based distros:
Crunchbangplusplus
BunsenLabs
LMDE
SpiralLinux
SparkyLinux
Siduction
Linux is a second class OS, compared to Windows and Mac. So I'm not switching to Linux anytime soon .