I love the video! I use MX Linux on my Lenovo Thinkpad R61 laptop. I stopped doing the linux reviews due to my memory issue. Always love watching yours Dave.
Very informative,thank you. I've been holding myself back from Linux because I felt like it would be impossible for me to learn how to use the terminal so my computer would have everything installed for it to work. After watching lots of RUclips videos about Mint and Mx, I made a couple of USB's and used the live session to get familiar with them. Today i dusted of an old laptop that has been hiding in the attic for years and installed MX as the only OS on it. The laptop is an old potato from 2005 with a 32 bit processor and had windows XP installed, so i thought that if I mess it up I can always use it as a frisbee. Well it's breathing now. Not the fastest computer, but I made my first step into the world of Linux and MX feels good to use.
Hello Dolphin. Excellent run-through, and I mean for EVERYONE! I thoroughly enjoyed your description of inbuilt features, even though I am both sold already, and have been a long-term user. 'MX' is THE most professional distro, building on Debian's renowned stability and functionality. A potential new-user who watches this video - and I hope there will be some of those new-users do watch[!] - will be unable to resist the plunge after seeing this thirty-minutes of excellence described!! Best wishes, stay safe....
I recently started using MX Linux and am definitely a fan. Solid, highly configurable with lots of extras. I am definitely staying with it. Great work.
Thank you dolphin for the nice presentation how to adjust a new installed MX system. Sometimes it is a bit playful but entertaining and not tiring. It helped me much because recently I installed MX into a virtual box for test purpose and maybe I will finally install this linux on my drive.
Really helpful! I learned a lot, for example the xfce theme with thick borders is something that everyone should be using. It makes resizing windows so much easier and this was something I found really annoying. (Maybe it should be used by default?) 13:15
This is great for new users like me. I would love to see a dive into just the persistence options on the f5 boot options and how they are intended to be used.
There is one conky that I like, that's in mx 18, that's not in 19, so I copied it over, and it seems to work. It's "MX-MNM/conkyrc-line". I like it, because it's minimalist.
We'll do an installation of Calculate Linux on bare metal during a live stream on EB's channel. I'll show how to install tricky packages and specially how to use Kuroo. Cheers
Dolphin Oracle thank you for the great video. Wished you and the team would have added a Windows 7 and 10 theme as well as a MAC OSX Mojave theme to the base OS. This would potentially help most new users coming to Linux be able to adapt quicker to Linux environment. I know some more experienced users may not like it, but it’s only an available option that can be used if you want to only. Plus automatic detection of printer and scanners.
I respect your opinion on the window and mac themes, however, my experience is that when things look like windows and mac people expect them to work that way. We are unabashedly and unashamedly linux, so those themes aren't a really high priority.
Hello, I gave MX persistent live USB sticks, encrypted and configured to friends who had never worked with Linux before. All of them loved MX immediately. Most of them use the live usb for banking and never had any difficulties.
runwiththedolphin I can see your point. I was thinking about it from a look and feel perspective not performance. Although I understand what you mean. I personally love it your team’s distribution. Took a bit to get use to. I have triple boot in my machine MX Linux 19.2, Mint 20 and Manjaro, but I leave the default boot os as MX Linux.
Great intro to MX for new users! But what about security, that is if you share data between an MX pc and a Windows pc, how to check any potential malware? Also, for those of us who use Korean or Chinese keyboard layouts, it would be nice to have also some tips. Installing the packages is rather easy, if you follow the instructions for Ibus, but getting the right keyboard layout is rather challenging (at least for me but I may have missed something). The Korean keyboard choices do not offer the standard layout with consonants on the left and vowels on the right. I managed to get that right in Ubuntu 18.04 with fcitx. As for wifi, the RTL8821ce driver is required for my Lenovo laptop, but is not available in the (Debian) repos, so is there a way to install it? It is available for Fedora & Ubuntu and derivatives. But enough complaining :) I'm trying to set up a conky that shows a clock and calendar (ok so far) and (not ok so far) some infos from Orage calendar (I guess with a Python script) such as today's appointment titles and time and tomorrow's as well (something like Kde Kontact). Is there a way to include that conky in the conky manager list? Of course it would be much nicer to have that as an Xfce plugin for the panel, but, well I cannot code, so... :( Anyway, thanks a lot for your hard work!
if you put the conky in a folder under ~/.conky it should show up in the conky manager. If you are worried about malware there are linux-based anti-virus. clamav is the classic open source application but there are paid proprietary options as well. for the RTL driver, try the AHS version of our MX19.2 it has newer firmware and drivers. I feel your pain on the keyboard layouts. We used to have a team member that worked with those keyboard layouts but we don't have anyone right now to help us improve the situation.
@@runwiththedolphin Running MX19.2 ahs right now installed an external HDD on my old pc with W7. Would it break anything if I try to use fcitx instead? Anyway, I can deal with working offline on W7 for Korean and Chinese, no big deal for now until I have my troublesome laptop fully working on Linux. As for wifi, I have checked the realtek package with synaptic, and the rtl8821ce is not listed while it is in Ubuntu / Mint Xfce 20. And as a reboot is necessary I cannot test the Debian package (just in case) from a live usb. I guess, for now, I will have to go with Mint :( on the laptop and keep on using MX on the external HDD until MX20... Anyway, thanks a lot for your advices :)
Thanks for the overview, I think this is the WWDC we all needed. All you need are a few more hangers-on to get those Korean keyboards going from the get-go and I guess Patreon fandom? Flash (Macromedia/Adobe) by default!? Lol so I wasn't hallucinating so badly. Still whoa why. Surprise like the $100M COVID subsidy for RealMedia Inc. (But..less horrible I suppose.) That's a lot of MX tools! Lookin' orthogonal to MX boot tools which...is where kernel selection comes in?
The one thing I do is build a new XFCE panel and get rid of the one MX comes with but that is just a cosmetic thing with me. Plus you also get Fluxbox included (I wish it was IceWM with Rox but it's all good). Great distro.
Panel's position is kind a weird. Can you give a normal panel section icon while installing the system? Or different configed panels in the settings, just like peppermint have
I've got a question about drivers. I'm new to Linux and currently use Win10 as the main os. What drivers do I need to run AAA-games on MX Linux? Where to find them? In official hardware sites, I see only drivers for win10, win7, centOS, ubuntu, rhel, etc. No drivers for Mx Linux.
most graphics drivers are already installed. you should use the "ahs" releases since they have the newer kernel, firmware, and graphics drivers. if you are an nvidia user, we have an nvidia installation tool. the latest drivers are available from our test repo, and will be offerred as a choice by the tool. amd graphics drivers are on the iso already OOTB. Things that work with debian will work with MX.
Things to do...? Set display bar to bottom (old habits dies hard,,,) Add Kpat (Spider solitaire) Add putty Select the Starry Skies wallpaper... But MX is supremely usable right out of the box frankly...
I suggest the "ahs" releases when using brand new hardware. the standard debian-stable tracking release may not have the drivers for hardware produced in the last year or so.
@@runwiththedolphin Sorted a couple of days ago, forgot to give feedback, thank you so much. Today's headache; trying to get Solus loaded as distro onto an external drive (1 TB Toshiba from a laptop awaiting other parts, now in an Adata cradle), via HP running MX 19. For my next trick I'm going to breastfeed a grown crocodile on horseback.....
I would be more than happy to make of MX my favorite distro, but unfortunately my beloved Vivaldi browser fails to run properly in it (RUclips Direct option doesn't simply work. The same holds true for some other browsers!!!) Any advice as to how to deal with this issue? Great distro, great dev team, after all... Cheers!!!
i'm a manjaro user and $5 donater to muller lol But i do have a persistent USB of mx and it is very interesting and might place mx on my writing laptop
I'm a big fan of the live-usb features....when I run antiX its always just straight off the usb using the "toram" feature. very fast. the lead antiX dev runs "frugal" installs which cab also run in the "toram" mode.
how on this gods earth do you set up 3 monitors on this distro? I had Liberty OS installed before this and didn't have to do anything to see all 3 of my monitors. but no sir, not with MX Linux! much appreciated any help you can give :)
Hi Thanks for the MX Distro I’ve got a few questions if you don’t mind I can’t save files on my other drives unless I open them as root, can’t export for exemple darktable photos, i must give user privileges? Does this pose security problems? I modified the theme and icons and i was not able to save the theme like you showed, could save but it doesn’t show up Last question, i was testing and wanted to erase the firsts snapshots of the system, cannot find option to do it Thanks in advance
you want to make sure your user has permissions to right to whatever external device or drive you are using. this is not automatic if the other drives are also formatted with linux filesystems, since the permissions are stored at the local file system level. giving your user access to folders you need to access is not a security problem. I'm not sure what you mean about first snapshots, but if you mean the iso files generated by mx-snapshot, by default they are under /home/snapshot. on saving the theme set, make sure to give it a unique name to be displayed. also, if themes and icons are later removed, or are stored in a location that mx-tweak doesn't check, then the theme set will not be displayed. tweak checks for themes and icon themes under /usr/share/themes, /usr/share/icons, ~/.icons and ~/.themes.
@@runwiththedolphin Ok, i will check location of current icons and themes About iso snapshots, I founded them but i don’t have privileges to delete them, it boils to having user account and not root account. I ticked admin, root, sudo, disks on my user account but i’m still unable to save files to another drives, i must’ve missed something . I already registered to the MX forum and will dig there. Thanks for your help
Which one is better MX linux vs Mint Linux vs Manjaro ?(all with lattest release) I need for regular use and gaming like csgo, dota 2, and some programing
i had one small issue with the mx Linux , Problem: Whenever i try to logout , suspend , leave , shutdown , reboot the system freezes i am not able to do any thing , i then press ctrl + alt + 1 or 2 or 3 , then in the command line i press: sudo poweroff inorder to shutdown , is there anyother why to get rid of this problem , but as of now i am using the terminal to turn it off by using the same command : sudo poweroff This issue is still not fixed till now ! It would be great if you could help me in this matter
I am running MX Linux 19 on USB ( persistent=all ) I want to upgrade to latest 19.2 version, is it safe to upgrade without messing up the system? Will it boot the new kernel without problems?
you can update without problems. Updating the kernel should be ok too. In fact, if you have been applying updates, you've already got everything except the kernel
@@runwiththedolphin sir, i just updated every package from synaptic, everything updated but the problem is when i restarted the machine, i lost the updates that i did and everything needs update again !! Same packages same download size!
@@runwiththedolphin I tried installing but it would always stop after I got to udev. Would not continue to the gui installer. Then I tried to use the cli-installer but I always end up failing. I think I'm still too new to linux to handle that hahaha. Thanks anyways!
@@OzoUtomo You got far enough to get error messages someplace, so keep going (knocking out that -quiet thing on booting and reading really fast!) Good luck 'n don't forget to look for Debian X Ryzen hints on Reddit etc. forum.manjaro.org/t/random-crashes-on-hp-envy-x360-amd-ryzen-2500u/44218/14
I don't know much about nvidia, but I hear there is somethign called "Force composition pipeline" or something like that that some folks have success with tearing issues.
WHY IS DRAG AND DROP NOT TOTALLY IMPLEMENTED ON LINUX DESKTOPS, THIS IS A BASIC FUNCTIONAL NEED FOR ALL DESKTOPS TO WORK PROPERLY. IT SHOULD BE NUMBER ONE PRIORITY FOR DEVELOPERS - ( THERE IS A FILE MANAGER CALLED PCMANFM THIS SUPPORTS DRAG AND DROP PLUS DUAL PANE MODE . YOU CAN FIND THIS IN SYNAPTIC IF IT HELPS ) . . . MX LINUX LOOKS AND SOUNDS GREAT. THANKS FOR SHARING
Trying to install Mx 19.2 onto my Dell Latitude 10 ST2, 32bit EFI, dual core, four thread, intel z2760 cpu, two gigabytes DDR2 ram, 1366x768 display, 64 gigabytes Samsung eMMC, Intel Graphics Media Accelerator. Boots to install menu, but black screen after making my selection. There isn't anything concerning linux being installed on this tablet that I could find on RUclips. I did find a forum thread on Suse's site where Cubicle Nate had asked for help with installing Suse on the very same model tablet, but to no avail. Can anyone here offer any help?
Dell latitude 10 tablet is a disgrace as a device I personally visited Dell center twice . I am struck with two Dell latitude 10 with window 8. Never purchased Dell product again...
Concerning LibreOffice and its vulnerabilities: glsa.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-13 can MX get a .deb of a non vulnerable version of LO considering the stable version on Debian 9 and 10 is vulnerable? I mean without breaking libboost-locale which is installed on the system. Alien Bob on Slackware has created a boost-compat: www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/boost-compat/pkg64/current/boost-compat-1.74-x86_64-1alien.txt. Maybe MX might adapt it to Debian. Cheers
both of those cve reports have been fixed in Debian Buster. the security fixes were backported to the current versions available in buster. security fixes are one reason we try not to take care of libreoffice packages our selves.
Please help.. I am getting Warning when I select all disk on the partition. It says it detects... You will have high average failure in the near future. Specs: AMD E-450 1.65Ghz + 500Mhz AMD Radeon HD 4GB DDR3 Memory 500GB HDD
the installer is reading the SMART health data that is stored on the drive. Basically your drive thinks its getting ready to fail, so you need to think about replacing the drive.
@@runwiththedolphin I can only see enable networking and nothing shows up I've tried to install the windows drivers onto the operating system it says to install ndiswrapper when I do that it dont work
Personal opinion- Mx sucks coz u cannot upgrade your current version to the next version of mx. You need to reinstall the next version to upgrade. I personally hate mx Linux coz I feel that it is necessary for ppl or at least long term Linux users to know how to use the CLI . MX presents a GUI option for everything which makes Linux users lazy . Learning the command line actually gives you more control over your system and also makes you more productive. Mx is awesome for ppl getting into Linux but it is imperative for us to understand how the command line works if u r actually planning to stick with Linux.
The most important step after an installation of MX Linux -> uninstalling this terrible distro ! that the user even has to enabling double-click after an installation is a pure joke ...
@@runwiththedolphin Less a question of feeling ... rather a determination of a bad decision, which runs counter to the standard and is hidden with small click obstacles ... this then results in an overall picture that suggests unprofessionalism ... the tip of the iceberg .. The rest of the distro doesn't matter anymore... if someone makes mistakes with something like that, puts his own taste above the standard... well, those people make other mistakes too.
@@Hinterfrage its a fair point, but there are tremendous number of mass-market devices with os's that are set single click. I for one am a fan of double-click, but single-click has a strong following.
MX Linux is my favorit Linux distro since 2014,and it is still the best.Thank you MX team.
I love the video! I use MX Linux on my Lenovo Thinkpad R61 laptop. I stopped doing the linux reviews due to my memory issue. Always love watching yours Dave.
Very informative,thank you. I've been holding myself back from Linux because I felt like it would be impossible for me to learn how to use the terminal so my computer would have everything installed for it to work. After watching lots of RUclips videos about Mint and Mx, I made a couple of USB's and used the live session to get familiar with them. Today i dusted of an old laptop that has been hiding in the attic for years and installed MX as the only OS on it. The laptop is an old potato from 2005 with a 32 bit processor and had windows XP installed, so i thought that if I mess it up I can always use it as a frisbee. Well it's breathing now. Not the fastest computer, but I made my first step into the world of Linux and MX feels good to use.
Thanks for this. I've been using MX for two years now and I still learned some new things in this video. You guys rock and so does MX!
Thanks!
Great video. Long time MX user but saw some configuration gems I have forgotten or missed.
Thank you for making this video. I appreciate the time you put into making it.
Hello Dolphin. Excellent run-through, and I mean for EVERYONE! I thoroughly enjoyed your description of inbuilt features, even though I am both sold already, and have been a long-term user. 'MX' is THE most professional distro, building on Debian's renowned stability and functionality. A potential new-user who watches this video - and I hope there will be some of those new-users do watch[!] - will be unable to resist the plunge after seeing this thirty-minutes of excellence described!!
Best wishes, stay safe....
new user here. was using mint.
I recently started using MX Linux and am definitely a fan. Solid, highly configurable with lots of extras. I am definitely staying with it. Great work.
The Best and the most solid distro, I've ever used... And yes, I've tried every major distro (6 years)
Very nice distro but I have to admit I've had a few crashes.
Thank you dolphin for the nice presentation how to adjust a new installed MX system. Sometimes it is a bit playful but entertaining and not tiring. It helped me much because recently I installed MX into a virtual box for test purpose and maybe I will finally install this linux on my drive.
Really helpful! I learned a lot, for example the xfce theme with thick borders is something that everyone should be using. It makes resizing windows so much easier and this was something I found really annoying. (Maybe it should be used by default?) 13:15
Very helpful. I'm still in the process of getting to know mxlinux. Quite impressed with it so far.
Pretty amazed after i just installed MX.
Thanks!
Congratulations! It's a superb distro!
Thank you very much!
This is great for new users like me. I would love to see a dive into just the persistence options on the f5 boot options and how they are intended to be used.
Awesome vid; very informative, thanks a ton Sir! :)
Great video Dolohin. MX is the best of the best IMO.
Thank you, MX Linux the best. На мой скромный взгляд, это самый удачный дистрибутив из всего что есть в интернете.
thank you SO much! your final outcome is GREAT! really appreciated!!
Great video as usual,keep up the good work on a great distro.
Thanks a lot for addressing all this problems and easing off the PC life.
There is one conky that I like, that's in mx 18, that's not in 19, so I copied it over, and it seems to work. It's "MX-MNM/conkyrc-line". I like it, because it's minimalist.
MX Linux rocks, thanks for the tips.
legend I've been using mx for a year but must admit very useful best software i've used but not easy to find way around
A big boom!!! for you guys for the extraordinary job! Congrats!
MX Linux is very polished
We'll do an installation of Calculate Linux on bare metal during a live stream on EB's channel. I'll show how to install tricky packages and specially how to use Kuroo.
Cheers
@@serge5046 Thats great :D
This video is super helpful. Thank you so much.
Thank you. Just installed MX, exactly what I was looking for.
Excellent job, Thanks
Nice work - very comprehensive.
Awesome overview my friend....!
Great video. Thx.
What I do in Whiskers Menu Settings - I also turn off displaying the app description.
Good job. Very helpful... i have just installed mx linux and coincided your tutorial. lucky me :)
thank you....for this wounderful video ,it helped me a lot
Dolphin Oracle thank you for the great video. Wished you and the team would have added a Windows 7 and 10 theme as well as a MAC OSX Mojave theme to the base OS. This would potentially help most new users coming to Linux be able to adapt quicker to Linux environment. I know some more experienced users may not like it, but it’s only an available option that can be used if you want to only. Plus automatic detection of printer and scanners.
I respect your opinion on the window and mac themes, however, my experience is that when things look like windows and mac people expect them to work that way. We are unabashedly and unashamedly linux, so those themes aren't a really high priority.
Hello, I gave MX persistent live USB sticks, encrypted and configured to friends who had never worked with Linux before. All of them loved MX immediately. Most of them use the live usb for banking and never had any difficulties.
runwiththedolphin I can see your point. I was thinking about it from a look and feel perspective not performance. Although I understand what you mean. I personally love it your team’s distribution. Took a bit to get use to. I have triple boot in my machine MX Linux 19.2, Mint 20 and Manjaro, but I leave the default boot os as MX Linux.
Great intro to MX for new users!
But what about security, that is if you share data between an MX pc and a Windows pc, how to check any potential malware?
Also, for those of us who use Korean or Chinese keyboard layouts, it would be nice to have also some tips. Installing the packages is rather easy, if you follow the instructions for Ibus, but getting the right keyboard layout is rather challenging (at least for me but I may have missed something). The Korean keyboard choices do not offer the standard layout with consonants on the left and vowels on the right. I managed to get that right in Ubuntu 18.04 with fcitx.
As for wifi, the RTL8821ce driver is required for my Lenovo laptop, but is not available in the (Debian) repos, so is there a way to install it? It is available for Fedora & Ubuntu and derivatives.
But enough complaining :) I'm trying to set up a conky that shows a clock and calendar (ok so far) and (not ok so far) some infos from Orage calendar (I guess with a Python script) such as today's appointment titles and time and tomorrow's as well (something like Kde Kontact). Is there a way to include that conky in the conky manager list? Of course it would be much nicer to have that as an Xfce plugin for the panel, but, well I cannot code, so... :(
Anyway, thanks a lot for your hard work!
if you put the conky in a folder under ~/.conky it should show up in the conky manager. If you are worried about malware there are linux-based anti-virus. clamav is the classic open source application but there are paid proprietary options as well. for the RTL driver, try the AHS version of our MX19.2 it has newer firmware and drivers.
I feel your pain on the keyboard layouts. We used to have a team member that worked with those keyboard layouts but we don't have anyone right now to help us improve the situation.
@@runwiththedolphin Running MX19.2 ahs right now installed an external HDD on my old pc with W7. Would it break anything if I try to use fcitx instead? Anyway, I can deal with working offline on W7 for Korean and Chinese, no big deal for now until I have my troublesome laptop fully working on Linux. As for wifi, I have checked the realtek package with synaptic, and the rtl8821ce is not listed while it is in Ubuntu / Mint Xfce 20. And as a reboot is necessary I cannot test the Debian package (just in case) from a live usb. I guess, for now, I will have to go with Mint :( on the laptop and keep on using MX on the external HDD until MX20... Anyway, thanks a lot for your advices :)
Thanks for the overview, I think this is the WWDC we all needed. All you need are a few more hangers-on to get those Korean keyboards going from the get-go and I guess Patreon fandom?
Flash (Macromedia/Adobe) by default!? Lol so I wasn't hallucinating so badly. Still whoa why. Surprise like the $100M COVID subsidy for RealMedia Inc. (But..less horrible I suppose.) That's a lot of MX tools! Lookin' orthogonal to MX boot tools which...is where kernel selection comes in?
very useful thank you
The one thing I do is build a new XFCE panel and get rid of the one MX comes with but that is just a cosmetic thing with me. Plus you also get Fluxbox included (I wish it was IceWM with Rox but it's all good). Great distro.
If you want Fluxbox and IceWM and Rox then maybe you should try our sister distro antiX which has all of the above.
That is a great tutorial - Thank you.
Excellent.
Many thanks.
Thank you for this.
Great video. Cheers
Thanks for the awesome work and help, Dolphin! Do you use the KDE or Xfce version?
I use Xfce.
Panel's position is kind a weird. Can you give a normal panel section icon while installing the system? Or different configed panels in the settings, just like peppermint have
mx-tweak -> Panel Tab.
I've got a question about drivers. I'm new to Linux and currently use Win10 as the main os.
What drivers do I need to run AAA-games on MX Linux? Where to find them? In official hardware sites, I see only drivers for win10, win7, centOS, ubuntu, rhel, etc. No drivers for Mx Linux.
most graphics drivers are already installed. you should use the "ahs" releases since they have the newer kernel, firmware, and graphics drivers. if you are an nvidia user, we have an nvidia installation tool. the latest drivers are available from our test repo, and will be offerred as a choice by the tool. amd graphics drivers are on the iso already OOTB. Things that work with debian will work with MX.
@@runwiththedolphin thanks
Things to do...?
Set display bar to bottom (old habits dies hard,,,)
Add Kpat (Spider solitaire)
Add putty
Select the Starry Skies wallpaper...
But MX is supremely usable right out of the box frankly...
excellent video!
Double click is bloat. It's okay you have the right to be wrong;) Single click ftw! alt right click to increase or decrease a window.
Hi, I dualbooted mx 19.3 with the boxed win10, in a brand new HP elitebook, but now MX says "no sound card found" How do I fix that?
I suggest the "ahs" releases when using brand new hardware. the standard debian-stable tracking release may not have the drivers for hardware produced in the last year or so.
@@runwiththedolphin Sorted a couple of days ago, forgot to give feedback, thank you so much. Today's headache; trying to get Solus loaded as distro onto an external drive (1 TB Toshiba from a laptop awaiting other parts, now in an Adata cradle), via HP running MX 19. For my next trick I'm going to breastfeed a grown crocodile on horseback.....
I would be more than happy to make of MX my favorite distro, but unfortunately my beloved Vivaldi browser fails to run properly in it (RUclips Direct option doesn't simply work. The same holds true for some other browsers!!!) Any advice as to how to deal with this issue? Great distro, great dev team, after all... Cheers!!!
does RUclips Direct work with firefox?
@@runwiththedolphin No. And I wonder why...
i'm a manjaro user and $5 donater to muller lol But i do have a persistent USB of mx and it is very interesting and might place mx on my writing laptop
I'm a big fan of the live-usb features....when I run antiX its always just straight off the usb using the "toram" feature. very fast. the lead antiX dev runs "frugal" installs which cab also run in the "toram" mode.
Great video 😊
phpmyadmin not working. Installed it through MX Test Repo and from command line and neither time could I get phpmyadmin to work.
Tyvm.
how on this gods earth do you set up 3 monitors on this distro? I had Liberty OS installed before this and didn't have to do anything to see all 3 of my monitors. but no sir, not with MX Linux! much appreciated any help you can give :)
my three monitors just worked, although I did need to rearrange them to be in the right order in the Display utility.
Hi
Thanks for the MX Distro
I’ve got a few questions if you don’t mind
I can’t save files on my other drives unless I open them as root, can’t export for exemple darktable photos, i must give user privileges?
Does this pose security problems?
I modified the theme and icons and i was not able to save the theme like you showed, could save but it doesn’t show up
Last question, i was testing and wanted to erase the firsts snapshots of the system, cannot find option to do it
Thanks in advance
you want to make sure your user has permissions to right to whatever external device or drive you are using. this is not automatic if the other drives are also formatted with linux filesystems, since the permissions are stored at the local file system level. giving your user access to folders you need to access is not a security problem.
I'm not sure what you mean about first snapshots, but if you mean the iso files generated by mx-snapshot, by default they are under /home/snapshot.
on saving the theme set, make sure to give it a unique name to be displayed. also, if themes and icons are later removed, or are stored in a location that mx-tweak doesn't check, then the theme set will not be displayed. tweak checks for themes and icon themes under /usr/share/themes, /usr/share/icons, ~/.icons and ~/.themes.
@@runwiththedolphin
Ok, i will check location of current icons and themes
About iso snapshots, I founded them but i don’t have privileges to delete them, it boils to having user account and not root account.
I ticked admin, root, sudo, disks on my user account but i’m still unable to save files to another drives, i must’ve missed something .
I already registered to the MX forum and will dig there.
Thanks for your help
Which one is better MX linux vs Mint Linux vs Manjaro ?(all with lattest release)
I need for regular use and gaming like csgo, dota 2, and some programing
I enjoy Linux Mint for gaming and programming
i had one small issue with the mx Linux ,
Problem:
Whenever i try to logout , suspend , leave , shutdown , reboot the system freezes i am not able to do any thing , i then press ctrl + alt + 1 or 2 or 3 ,
then in the command line i press: sudo poweroff
inorder to shutdown , is there anyother why to get rid of this problem
, but as of now i am using the terminal to turn it off by using the same command : sudo poweroff
This issue is still not fixed till now ! It would be great if you could help me in this matter
I am running MX Linux 19 on USB ( persistent=all )
I want to upgrade to latest 19.2 version, is it safe to upgrade without messing up the system? Will it boot the new kernel without problems?
you can update without problems. Updating the kernel should be ok too. In fact, if you have been applying updates, you've already got everything except the kernel
@@runwiththedolphin sir, i just updated every package from synaptic, everything updated but the problem is when i restarted the machine, i lost the updates that i did and everything needs update again !! Same packages same download size!
@@enkidux88 you need to make sure you have persistence enabled. Sounds like you did not.
@@runwiththedolphin grub boot parameters is :
BOOT_IMAGE=/antiX/vmlinuz quiet splasht lang=en_US tz=Moscow from=usb persist_all
Did i miss something?
how can i enlarge my cursor size with mx 23.3,thank you for such a fantastic system
Under Xfce, there is a quick item in Mx-tweak->theme for that, or the full settings in Mouse & Touchpad.
Will a laptop with AMD Ryzen 5 CPU and an Nvidia GPU work well with MX? I tried other distros but they kept forcing me to use the integrated AMD GPU.
should be OK, but I would use the AHS release to be sure.
@@runwiththedolphin I tried installing but it would always stop after I got to udev. Would not continue to the gui installer. Then I tried to use the cli-installer but I always end up failing. I think I'm still too new to linux to handle that hahaha. Thanks anyways!
@@OzoUtomo You got far enough to get error messages someplace, so keep going (knocking out that -quiet thing on booting and reading really fast!) Good luck 'n don't forget to look for Debian X Ryzen hints on Reddit etc. forum.manjaro.org/t/random-crashes-on-hp-envy-x360-amd-ryzen-2500u/44218/14
Hello. Amazin distro but what about installing nVidia drivers on mx linux Plasma? I tried but the screen tearing is terrible. Any tips?
I don't know much about nvidia, but I hear there is somethign called "Force composition pipeline" or something like that that some folks have success with tearing issues.
hi, my mx linux auto restart after shutdown, how to handle it? thanks
I just installed Mx linux(my first linux distro) but now i cant find wifi option to connect to my mobile hotspot. Can some1 pls help?
the network options are in the system tray, and also under "advanced network configuration" in the menu.
WHY IS DRAG AND DROP NOT TOTALLY IMPLEMENTED ON LINUX DESKTOPS, THIS IS A BASIC FUNCTIONAL NEED FOR ALL DESKTOPS TO WORK PROPERLY. IT SHOULD BE NUMBER ONE PRIORITY FOR DEVELOPERS - ( THERE IS A FILE MANAGER CALLED PCMANFM THIS SUPPORTS DRAG AND DROP PLUS DUAL PANE MODE . YOU CAN FIND THIS IN SYNAPTIC IF IT HELPS ) . . . MX LINUX LOOKS AND SOUNDS GREAT. THANKS FOR SHARING
PCManFM is in the Popular Applications tab of the MX Package Installer. Takes less than 30 sec to install ... without raising your blood pressure.
Trying to install Mx 19.2 onto my Dell Latitude 10 ST2, 32bit EFI, dual core, four thread, intel z2760 cpu, two gigabytes DDR2 ram, 1366x768 display, 64 gigabytes Samsung eMMC, Intel Graphics Media Accelerator. Boots to install menu, but black screen after making my selection. There isn't anything concerning linux being installed on this tablet that I could find on RUclips. I did find a forum thread on Suse's site where Cubicle Nate had asked for help with installing Suse on the very same model tablet, but to no avail. Can anyone here offer any help?
Dell latitude 10 tablet is a disgrace as a device I personally visited Dell center twice . I am struck with two Dell latitude 10 with window 8. Never purchased Dell product again...
Hey i am having a problem booting the new mx linux 19.2 having stuck udev done from a live usb my laptop runs on amd cpu ryzen 5000 thx
Try making ISO from AHS Version
Ugh. I miss using mx at work. Bc of our phone system i have to use windows.
ugg...phones that run windows...no thanks! (I am stuck with windows and AutoCAD at work though, so I feels ya)
Concerning LibreOffice and its vulnerabilities: glsa.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-13 can MX get a .deb of a non vulnerable version of LO considering the stable version on Debian 9 and 10 is vulnerable? I mean without breaking libboost-locale which is installed on the system. Alien Bob on Slackware has created a boost-compat: www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/boost-compat/pkg64/current/boost-compat-1.74-x86_64-1alien.txt. Maybe MX might adapt it to Debian.
Cheers
both of those cve reports have been fixed in Debian Buster. the security fixes were backported to the current versions available in buster. security fixes are one reason we try not to take care of libreoffice packages our selves.
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-9848
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-9849
@@runwiththedolphin Ok, thanks.
Thanks
Please help.. I am getting Warning when I select all disk on the partition. It says it detects... You will have high average failure in the near future.
Specs:
AMD E-450 1.65Ghz + 500Mhz
AMD Radeon HD
4GB DDR3 Memory
500GB HDD
the installer is reading the SMART health data that is stored on the drive. Basically your drive thinks its getting ready to fail, so you need to think about replacing the drive.
@@runwiththedolphin Upgrade failed for me... Cryptesetup Warning.. Please help how to fix this Cryptesetup thing
@@runwiththedolphin Got many problem with this Cryptesetup :c please help
@@nenitabalahibo6473 post the message.
@@runwiththedolphin It's fixed.. Installing Zoom from MX Package Instller hope it will works fine :)
Mx linux xfce the best. 🇧🇷👍
the text is not as sharp as windows, is there a way to fix or change this
there are font settings under "Appearance". Some settings work better than others on given hardware.
How do you connect to wifi on mx linux?
I am using asus t100ta
as long as your wireless part is supported, you use the network-manager icon in the panel system tray area to select your wifi network.
@@runwiththedolphin I can only see enable networking and nothing shows up I've tried to install the windows drivers onto the operating system it says to install ndiswrapper when I do that it dont work
Personal opinion-
Mx sucks coz u cannot upgrade your current version to the next version of mx. You need to reinstall the next version to upgrade.
I personally hate mx Linux coz I feel that it is necessary for ppl or at least long term Linux users to know how to use the CLI . MX presents a GUI option for everything which makes Linux users lazy .
Learning the command line actually gives you more control over your system and also makes you more productive. Mx is awesome for ppl getting into Linux but it is imperative for us to understand how the command line works if u r actually planning to stick with Linux.
How to install checkra1n in mc linux I tried xmd but failed
they have a debian repository.
can i run the gnome tweak tool on MX 19.2 ?
if you run gnome. MX is using Xfce desktop.
can i use it for server like storage server web server?
MX is not designed as a server, however, it is based on debian so with enough configuration I imagine you can do whatever you do on debian.
Is this better than Arch?
well, I Like it.
@@runwiththedolphin yeah im trying to find the best linux distro for my old pc
uninstall it?
The most important step after an installation of MX Linux -> uninstalling this terrible distro ! that the user even has to enabling double-click after an installation is a pure joke ...
Wow tell us how you really feel. 😀
@@runwiththedolphin Less a question of feeling ... rather a determination of a bad decision, which runs counter to the standard and is hidden with small click obstacles ... this then results in an overall picture that suggests unprofessionalism ... the tip of the iceberg .. The rest of the distro doesn't matter anymore... if someone makes mistakes with something like that, puts his own taste above the standard... well, those people make other mistakes too.
@@Hinterfrage its a fair point, but there are tremendous number of mass-market devices with os's that are set single click. I for one am a fan of double-click, but single-click has a strong following.