I love your quiet, patient, relaxed lessons. It's like having a brother walk you through. I ran into problems however due to my outdated and limited knowledge. Didn't realize I was at the "so ignorant I don't know how ignorant I am" stage. I couldn't create numerous partitions as you did because Windows already had three primary partitions on the drive. That forced me to learn about MBR/GPT/BIOS/EUFI. Last time I set up a computer there was only MBR and BIOS. Windows is making it so easy now, I haven't needed to get under the hood for years. I also created a problem for myself when creating the root and home. It resulted in an MX login screen loop I couldn't get out of because it couldn't find the home (I think). At any rate, just wanted to say thank you for laying it out so clearly. When it goes wrong for me now, I at least know what questions to ask Google. With previous failed Linux experiments I had no idea even where to start!
Dude, I have tried dual-booting so many times, and the feeling of GRUB sort of just "eating" my Windows install eventually, or Windows just racing right past whatever boot menu should be showing up has always been... oh boy. I've always known that there was *something* going on and it wasn't the simple, no-complication thing people make it out to be. So thank you SO MUCH for really going in-depth on it when no one else seems to bother. Why the hell is the MX Linux community specifically so doggedly committed to documentation? And why can't everyone be like this?
Absolutely fantastic even though it's like 5:00 or 6:00 in the morning and I haven't slept all night I absolutely loved watching your video as I went in and out of sleep but plan on watching it many more times again as I spent 2 days dealing with a disaster and wiping out my windows volume did finally get it fixed so all is good and with your help all will be much better your Canadian friend darcey
Oh My God, this sounds horrible for anyone to have.. I hope you can get the issue soon (which you probably did seeing from your comment!!), and i hope it doesn't happen again with you or anyone for that matter!! Oh my, computers can really sometimes be confusing... Like not too long ago, our computer was infected with a STOP/DJVU virus, and i didn't know it, so, as the virus had stripped functionality from our laptop, like the Start Menu not opening up anymore and the Notification Center not openimg up too, i kept trying all of the fixes i could find on the internet... I couldn't even do a repair install from the hard drive ( and i thought all the USB's we had at the time were infected with the virus), so i basically decided to just go all out and reset it. It took a long time as it has an AMD A9-9425 Radeon R5 CPU, which is quite slow, but i worked!!! It booted back into Windows 10 and most of it's problems were solve : The Start Menu would open again along with the Notification Center opening too!!! Windows Update also worked again!!! By the way, i discovered our PC had a virus because of me accidentally opening file explorer and stumbling around some greyed out files. Normally this is quite normal (you just have set File Explorer to Show Hidden Files), i noticed a README.TXT that basically said i needed money to recover my encrypted files. That's how i knew it was, atleast partially, the virus's fault. So i did a reset from the Settings app and fortunately, the virus seems to have been gotten deleted. Long story short, computers can be so confusing, but sometimes a good reset or re-install fixes stuff!! (a repair upgrade is also worth a try as that option gives you the opportunity to keep your programs and files, but some apps maay get deleted. For me, a repair upgrade just wouldn't work, so i did a full reset and it all went good. A Fresh Start is also an option, althought keep in mind it might delete all of your programs, files and apps, so back up your files and programs if you need them beforehand!) Anyways, keep it up, and i hope all of our computer lifes go good for now!
I had tried to install MX Linux on my PC in dual boot with Windows without success. With your guide I did it, following your suggestions step by step. Thank you very much for your work and congratulations! 🙂
Man you rocked that installation for me. Had alot of issues with the partitioning on previous attemps. So I had installed Kubuntu 23.04on my main machine. Unfortunatley I ran into alot of issues with Kubuntu so when I saw how you flew through that install I decided to try it on a dual win11 system I just got and it was flawless. Again thank you 👌
Bravo! Thank you. I started w/ MX-21 on a laptop a few weeks ago and absolutely love it. Wanted to now put it on my desktop so i can use beefier software like video editing and multitrack audio recording. Ur tutorial helped immensely. especially walking me thru the GParted setup, which previously scared me. Excellent explanations of everything. Brilliant indeed!
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splendid tutorial. Funny story, I actually installed mx linux but then had a few issues running windows programs there so I got back to windows and decided to distro hop and settled with linux mint. However when I booted into windows it prompted a "disk repair" and completely destroyed my linux mint install. 😂 I am distro hopping again
Thanks! Wow good to know about the Windows "repair" scenario lolz. I'm distro hopping too but waiting for the new AV Linux to be released hence getting familiarised with MX Linux.
Excellent video to install MX linux, for those of us who do not have experience these videos help a lot. This is a real installation of how it should be done (not virtual), it has worked very well for me and the first time. Thank you very much for your excellent videos that are always very easy to follow for me that I am Spanish and I don't understand much English, continue like this, do not change. Excelente video para instalar MX linux, para los que no tenemos experiencia estos videos ayundan mucho. Esta es instalación real de como se debe hacer (no virtual), a mi me ha funcionado muy bien y a la primera. Muchas gracias por tus exelentes videos que siempre son muy faciles de seguir para me que soy español y no entiendo mucho de ingles, continua así no cambies.
@JUANCLARIPERALES Thank you for your comment. I appreciate the feedback and am happy you had success with your install. Gracias por tu comentario. Agradezco sus comentarios y estoy feliz de que haya tenido éxito con su instalación.
Well worth the hour because I have had to set up dual booting for folks who want the stability and reliability of Linux BUT are still suffering the vendor lock-in (that's a feature, NOT a bug) of Windows applications. Ironically, once the ap is not needed it's the WINDOWS that "goes away" without a trace 8)
20:19 - In the menu there's an option called "Partition Configuration". Clicking that makes it possible to configure an extra partition on the flashed USB drive where you can store loose files on which is very handy in live environments as when the ISO is mounted and used to run the OS it's not possible to access from within that environment. I use it for KeePassXC and KeePassXC database but also other helpful documents, like how to use grub etc.
17:19 In Rufus one can change "persistent partition size" to reserve room for another partition during flashing as well. This feature is also needed for MX Linux and AntiX persistence feature.
30:23 - A neat trick to both move and resize windows is to press and hold ALT then left click and hold with your mouse or on your touchpad buttons and that will allow you to then drag the window around. If you hold ALT and right click you get the resize functionality which is very handy. It works by approximation, so to resize from the lower right corner your cursor needs to be somewhat near it to guess that's the corner you want to resize from. Once you've activated either grab or resize you can let go of ALT, just keep your mouse or touchpad button pressed for those actions and let go when you're satisfied with the result. This is very practical on lower resolution monitors, like what I had to battle with on my old 2009 Asus EEE PC, a tiny 1024*600 netbook.
Excellent tutorial. I have an old Windows 7 Tecra notebook that runs MX-23.2 from a USB memory stick without problems, so I imagine it would probably do the same from the HDD. Just to make sure I thought I'd do a dual boot first before deleting Windows and making it a dedicated MX Linux computer.
Hi since I've learnt the very thorough lessons from your channel which I have placed my complete faith and confidence on what you do. I was just wondering whether you could do a (btrfs) complete tutorial here, in particular the way how to interact with (timeshift) for restoration/reinstallation, together with how to create (timeshift) into USB if possible etc… as I have watched various other channels' explanations but none of them I am confident with. Thanks in advance.
@reflexsamurai958 Thanks for your comment! I'll certainly put your suggestion on my list of potential videos to make. These days I actually prefer to use ext4 as I can specify where to save my timeshift snapshots which you can't do with BTRFS. Ext4 may be slower than BTRFS but having the ability to save the snapshots to a separate partition is worth the time.
@@StaempunkTV You have answered my request already as I couldn't find a method to back up (brtfs) into USB as it could only back-up to the system hard disk which could be a problem should the system be unable to boot up. Thank you once again.
I did it your way using the different partitions, and I don't know what I did wrong, but the windows bootloader is gone. I have used MX boot repair, and I have tried fixing it using the windows command line after looking for information on Google. There's no GRUB menu at all, I have to use the flash drive that contains MX Linux. Any ideas?
@@StaempunkTV No. I never did. I always had to start MX using the flash drive because it never installed GRUB. I think it's because it's my work computer. The options under the BIOS seem more limited than normal.
Yes you should be able to re-enable secure boot. However I would encourage you to consult this thread about secure boot first: forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=67022
Thank you very much for your excellent videos. I'm wondering if it does make sense to install dual boot on two seperate disks, without using space from the Windows disk for Linux? I tend to install it in such a way.
@jerrelajoeb6531 In your case, I would probably install one OS per disk and create an NTFS partition that can be accessed in both Windows and Linux. Thanks for your comment.
@Briefing. It is for files that I want to be able to access in both MX Linux and Windows. For example, if I download a file while I'm in MX Linux, I can move the file to the NTFS partition and then when I'm using Windows, I can access the file. And it works both ways. Thanks for watching!
Well done! Thank you for a such detailed explanation and especially how to roll back what was done - a very rare scenario on tech videos... but let me ask you: 1. About OS X (El Capitan) and MX dual booting. Should be the Disk Utility used instead of gparted? It seemed that it wants an additional package from Apple to handle the HPFS. 2. If you have dealt with OS X & MX Linux dualboot - where GRUB is placed and how to delete it's traces (if I want to wipe out the installed MX) ?
@petrov8086 Thanks for the question. I personally have never tried dual booting with OSX so I can't really weigh in with advice. My Macbook is only able to run an old OSX version that I'm happy to replace with Lubuntu Studio.
i followed your tutorial but i can't tick the esp type on grub option is this has something to do with mbr and gpt partioning table? 🤔 m a new comer ✋😅
@pauldox It is highly probable that it is due to being an MBR system and not a GPT partition table. Have you tried selecting MBR instead of GPT when asked?
24:14 A shortcut to access the advanced start-up feature in Windows, one can just hold SHIFT while pressing the restart button from the Windows menu -> Power -> Restart, or Windows button + X -> Shut down or sign out -> Restart.
very helpful but I have some questions b4 doing system changes. 1. i have set up Ventoy which is working on some of the iso. When downloading Ventoy it gives options windows or Linux. I used windows as I'm on windows 10 pro. Does this choice affect the booting capability? if I remove windows will the flash drive still work in the Linux machine? 2. I'm planning on changing the windows 10 pro to windows 10 as i have the activation code for the later. I remember many years ago it is preferable or necessary to install windows b4 Linux. Is this true? 3. Can you do a multi boot (more than 2 say 1 windows and 2 or 3 Linux) instruction video? I find your teaching method very simple to understand compared to others I've found. Does multi systems affect the performance of the machine? I'm running ASUS intel7 gaming laptop few years old now. My C drive 237 GB and DATA D drive 931 GB So if I'm understanding this correctly I shouldn't touch the D drive and partition the C drive only. I see you have been quiet for a year so I've downloaded MX 23 and Vanilla OS and Endeavor Galileo (Ghost bsd and Nitrux didnt work for me) is MX23 very different to MX21. Its been more than 20 years since I played with computers and built and repaired a few self taught. Paranoid of wrecking this laptop. All answers very much appreciated. Thank you.
@edwardpearce9668 1. It doesn't matter. A Ventoy USB created on a Mac can be used on a Windows PC or Linux etc. 2. Yep, Windows before Linux as the Windows Installer will overwrite the LInux partitions. If you create seperate partitions you might be able to install Windows to its own partition. I would experiment on an old computer if you aren't sure (that's what I do). 3. I'll add your suggestion to my list of potential vids. Multi systems don't affect performance as long as each 'OS' has all its partitions close to each other. Hope this helps, cheers!
Hello, mate. How've you been? I use *Debian Testing* and I would like to use *MX Linux,* but do I have how to switch the MX Linux's sources.list from *stable* to *testing?* I do not want to stay stuck on stable for 2 years. With the testing version I feel that I have found stability and some updated packages at the same distro. Is that possible?
@garbosinho Hey dude, I'm good. Very busy doing other work but will be returning to do more YT vids in the near future. Yes you can absolutely change the sources list to the Testing Repo. In the MX Tools app you'll find the Repo Manager where you can change the sources or you can search for apps directly in the MX Package installer from the testing Repo. Thanks for your comment.
@@StaempunkTV I know you are very busy. So there's no problem if u have no time to answer my question. I installed that xfce4-appmenu-plugin in my Debian Testing XFCE, but it just works with qt applications. Do you know how to make it work with gtk applications? Best regards.
@@StaempunkTV Can You Please Make Videos On Following Topics Because There Are No Good Videos On This Topics On RUclips : Topics - Xrdp Linux - (To Access Linux From Mac or Windows) - X11vnc Linux - (To Access Linux From Mac or Windows) - Net Speed Meter App For Linux - How To Properly Remove Linux From Dual Boot On Macbook Pro (Same Like You Make Video For Windows - Because Every Time I Try This I Ended Up Messing The Whole MacOS & Have To Reinstall From Scratch)
Enough of VM. Going all in with MX as my main OS. The future is bright for Linux and MX, if not then we may have learned from our errors. Can't lose situation here. Thanks a lot for your time mate.
Ooh yeah, that's great. I've almost moved my entire workflow to Linux except for video editing because none of my laptops are powerful enough so it's almost for me. Thanks to you too.
I have used this setup dual booting Windows with Pop!_OS which worked fine. For distro hopping though, I've found that installing various distros to an external HDD is easier to do as there are less steps involved.
Thanx for the informative video. I can see why people aren't interested in using Linux. To many things to do while installing. I've used several other distros on external USB3 drives and they are way simpler no creating all those extra partitions.
I'm happy you got some value from the video. I understand about doing a simpler install process. There is the option to let the MX installer automatically do the partitioning. I like to utilize the speed of the BTRFS file system though hence the partitioning method I do. Thanks for the feedback!
@hartonpictures5008 Apakah Anda mencoba menyalin file ke partisi Windows atau partisi NTFS yang terpisah? Are you trying to copy files to the Windows partition or a separate NTFS partition?
@@StaempunkTV pastisi ntfs itu untuk data dan terpisah dari windows (partisi windows sendiri), partisi data sendiri (ntfs). Partisi linux juga sendiri. Utk copy file partisi ntfs baik pakai os linux atau windows. Anehnya di mint bisa, tapi di mx tidak. Ini masukan utk os mx linux. Karena pengguna tidak butuh monoton dilinux tapi juga multifungsi (copy data ntfs dari windows pakai os linux)
After following the steps in this video my boot still went straight into Windows 10. I had no option to select which OS to boot into. The GRUB menu did not boot up at all. What did I missed here? Thanks.
@@StaempunkTV Thanks for the quick response. Currently my UEFI Boot Order only have OS Boot Manager, Internal CD/DVD, USB Disk, ! Network Adapter. I don't see option to select GRUB MX Linux boot. I do see the grubx64.efi file in the 100 MB drive EFI/MX21 directory. I just don't know how to get the computer to select that to boot. Thanks.
I only have 20gb available to shrink n my laptop. Can I install it to 20gb to dual boot to my windows 10? If I can, can you reply in details how to partition the 20gb? I mean root how many? Home how many etc?
20GB should be ok as long as you aren't planning to download lots of files or install many apps. Probably the best way would be to follow the partitioning method in the video. When you're in GParted, don't create the DualData partition or the swap partition. Just create one btrfs partition. Apply that and then back in the MX Installer, create the two subvolumes for root (@) and home (@home) using the method in the video. Good luck!
Awesome as always ! ...ich followed one of your past Videos, to design your MX. I did this inside a VM (Boxen) and "burned" it on a USB Device and made it persistend after. So now i run a 256Gb USB LIVE-System of my customiced MX-Linux :-D ....but while using the stick gets really hot, ...besides it s a metal stick, which is good bringing the heat away, ...the system is quite laggy after some time, ....so i want it to run from my real SSD besides Windows!? ...which led to this Video :) Can i use my already customised LIVE-Persisten-USB MXLINUX ...and integreate it like you advice in this video here, ....or is there a Handicap i didn´t saw jet ? I mean: "Is it possible to install from a snapshot, or direktly from my live-system! ?" Thx in advance, ...and keep going this awesome format of your videos
@flaschnpost_aus_fernost9167 Thanks for your comment and question! The way I do it is I install MX Linux first and then use the restore feature in Timeshift.
@Reflex Samurai Thanks for saying! I make the grub partition 100MB so I can install other distros in the future. I could go 50 but I've found 100 to be a good size for my requirements. Cheers!
@erick-rm Great suggestion, I'll put it on the list of potential videos to make. I personally haven't used Manjaro for some time but the process would be pretty much the same as I demonstrate in the video.. After creating room for Manjaro by shrinking your Windows C: partition, boot up the Manjaro installer and create the following partitions: a 512mb FAT32 for the grub, a swap partition equal to your amount of RAM and a Root partition for Manjaro. I think you'd have to create flags and so on too but it isn't difficult to do.
@@StaempunkTV Thank you for your reply, can you create a sub-volume for root and home just like you did in the MX-Linux video? Just to let you know I went ahead and installed MX-23 in my 2 year old laptop instead of Manjaro Plasma. The latest MX works just fine the way you suggested in your video I have not had any issue, except that the swap partition doesn't mount automatically, I have to do it manually. Still I'm interested in installing Manjaro (or Endeavor OS) along Windows 10 in an old laptop I have just to try it and learn about Linux. Thank you for your videos they are excellent, clear, and informative.
thank for an awesome video :-) i am dual booting with MX23 on lenovo X1Carbon. initial boot in MX states "Press Enter for maintenance (or Control-D to continue)" enter login screen with the user; enter password; then login screen repeated appears! can not access the MX system! any hints & tips would be appreciated. (I have followed the instructions 3 times, same result each time) Hard drive & usb is GPT format.
@leadlearner6391 Perhaps try booting into your computer using your MX23 installer USB and then using the Boot Repair tool that can be found in MX Tools, rebuild your Grub.
I finally got MX-21 installed (KDE version) and was happy with it until I wanted to access my online accounts and there is no option in the settings for this. I got my trusty Ventoy usb out and booted up KDE Neon and low and behold online accounts available in the settings so I just installed KDE Neon over MX-21 and honestly, Plasma 5.26 is great. I am not a fan of xfce so it's a shame that what I wanted was not included in the KDE version for some reason. Enjoy your videos though and still a happy subscriber.
@Darryl Toombs That's interesting, I've tried MX21-KDE a few times and maybe it's my hardware but it has never been a smooth experience for me so I've never stuck with it. Thanks for your comment.
@lakemarine484 It sounds like your hard-drive has been formatted to the MBR partition table which only allows 4 primary partitions. GPT allows for more but you would have to completely format your hard-drive to format to GPT. Your other option is to create an extended logical partition for the extra partitions you wish to use.
@lakemarine484 I've just created a video on how to format your hard drive using the GPT partition table so you'll be able to create more than 4 partitions although it does entail completely formatting your hard drive. Hope it helps. ruclips.net/video/YTbbtzRDL1U/видео.html
I used MX Lin but it crasches, cant configure it, many other problems - and no help on forum. I switch to Debian, which is not perfect but... hey! its work!
I've had bad luck dual booting- I finally just got a SATA power switch module for $15 and I just push the buttons for the SSDs I want to have power. Windows, Fedora, Arch, MX, and a shared data drive that always has power. No risk of one os screwing with the bootloaders of others.
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@Thuso William Lehutso Totally! Although I still have Windows on one of my dual-boot machines, I haven't run it in months. It just doesn't compare with MX Linux or Ubuntu Studio speed or feature-wise.
I personally prefer to run another operational systems, via qemu / kvm, I do not need to give the entire dedication of my machine to one or the other OS, nor depend on boot
@bithostel That's a very cool and interesting way to do things. I've used QEMU in the past but sadly my hardware isn't powerful enough to effectively share OS's in virtual hence I install onto bare metal. Incidentally, I have 7 different Linux distros (Mint 21 XFCE, antiX, MX21 XCFE & KDE versions, Nobara, Ubuntu Studio and AV Linux) installed onto one of my laptops for different use cases. Thanks for watching and commenting!
It should work although I haven't ever done it that way around. To have the option to boot into MX or Windows at startup, you could go into your bios/UEFI and get your computer to boot from the MX bootloader and then when you're in MX, run the command 'sudo update-grub' in Terminal and it'll add a Windows bootloader to your MX grub so you have the option to boot into either at startup.
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Never seen an hour long dual booting video 😭😭😭 but its very informative, excellent for a beginner
Thanks!
@@StaempunkTV got a new laptop and back to watch your video, keep it up 🙌🏾
I love your quiet, patient, relaxed lessons. It's like having a brother walk you through. I ran into problems however due to my outdated and limited knowledge. Didn't realize I was at the "so ignorant I don't know how ignorant I am" stage. I couldn't create numerous partitions as you did because Windows already had three primary partitions on the drive. That forced me to learn about MBR/GPT/BIOS/EUFI. Last time I set up a computer there was only MBR and BIOS. Windows is making it so easy now, I haven't needed to get under the hood for years. I also created a problem for myself when creating the root and home. It resulted in an MX login screen loop I couldn't get out of because it couldn't find the home (I think). At any rate, just wanted to say thank you for laying it out so clearly. When it goes wrong for me now, I at least know what questions to ask Google. With previous failed Linux experiments I had no idea even where to start!
@JoJo-yp7kw Thanks for your cool comment. Well done for your perseverance and problem solving abilities.
Dude, I have tried dual-booting so many times, and the feeling of GRUB sort of just "eating" my Windows install eventually, or Windows just racing right past whatever boot menu should be showing up has always been... oh boy. I've always known that there was *something* going on and it wasn't the simple, no-complication thing people make it out to be. So thank you SO MUCH for really going in-depth on it when no one else seems to bother.
Why the hell is the MX Linux community specifically so doggedly committed to documentation? And why can't everyone be like this?
@colbyboucher6391 Thanks for the kind words! It makes the effort worthwhile.
I woke up with terrible hangover today and one hour of your calm voice was exactly what I needed 😂 Thank you! 😁
Haha you win the comment of the week 🤣
Absolutely fantastic even though it's like 5:00 or 6:00 in the morning and I haven't slept all night I absolutely loved watching your video as I went in and out of sleep but plan on watching it many more times again as I spent 2 days dealing with a disaster and wiping out my windows volume did finally get it fixed so all is good and with your help all will be much better your Canadian friend darcey
Oh My God, this sounds horrible for anyone to have.. I hope you can get the issue soon (which you probably did seeing from your comment!!), and i hope it doesn't happen again with you or anyone for that matter!! Oh my, computers can really sometimes be confusing... Like not too long ago, our computer was infected with a STOP/DJVU virus, and i didn't know it, so, as the virus had stripped functionality from our laptop, like the Start Menu not opening up anymore and the Notification Center not openimg up too, i kept trying all of the fixes i could find on the internet... I couldn't even do a repair install from the hard drive ( and i thought all the USB's we had at the time were infected with the virus), so i basically decided to just go all out and reset it. It took a long time as it has an AMD A9-9425 Radeon R5 CPU, which is quite slow, but i worked!!! It booted back into Windows 10 and most of it's problems were solve : The Start Menu would open again along with the Notification Center opening too!!! Windows Update also worked again!!! By the way, i discovered our PC had a virus because of me accidentally opening file explorer and stumbling around some greyed out files. Normally this is quite normal (you just have set File Explorer to Show Hidden Files), i noticed a README.TXT that basically said i needed money to recover my encrypted files. That's how i knew it was, atleast partially, the virus's fault. So i did a reset from the Settings app and fortunately, the virus seems to have been gotten deleted.
Long story short, computers can be so confusing, but sometimes a good reset or re-install fixes stuff!! (a repair upgrade is also worth a try as that option gives you the opportunity to keep your programs and files, but some apps maay get deleted. For me, a repair upgrade just wouldn't work, so i did a full reset and it all went good. A Fresh Start is also an option, althought keep in mind it might delete all of your programs, files and apps, so back up your files and programs if you need them beforehand!)
Anyways, keep it up, and i hope all of our computer lifes go good for now!
I had tried to install MX Linux on my PC in dual boot with Windows without success.
With your guide I did it, following your suggestions step by step.
Thank you very much for your work and congratulations! 🙂
@diegocappelletto3573 Cheers!
complimenti, uno dei migliori tutorial che ho visto, completa dall'inizio alla fine!!!!!!
Man you rocked that installation for me. Had alot of issues with the partitioning on previous attemps. So I had installed Kubuntu 23.04on my main machine. Unfortunatley I ran into alot of issues with Kubuntu so when I saw how you flew through that install I decided to try it on a dual win11 system I just got and it was flawless. Again thank you 👌
@LeonardoAguilar2020 Great to hear!
Bravo! Thank you. I started w/ MX-21 on a laptop a few weeks ago and absolutely love it. Wanted to now put it on my desktop so i can use beefier software like video editing and multitrack audio recording. Ur tutorial helped immensely. especially walking me thru the GParted setup, which previously scared me. Excellent explanations of everything. Brilliant indeed!
Glad it helped!
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Vielen Dank!
splendid tutorial. Funny story, I actually installed mx linux but then had a few issues running windows programs there so I got back to windows and decided to distro hop and settled with linux mint. However when I booted into windows it prompted a "disk repair" and completely destroyed my linux mint install. 😂 I am distro hopping again
Thanks! Wow good to know about the Windows "repair" scenario lolz. I'm distro hopping too but waiting for the new AV Linux to be released hence getting familiarised with MX Linux.
I appreciate your video with full details in a very calm and informative method. Thanks
@avtarsingh2366 You are most welcome!
Really in-depth tutorial, loved it
I like MX and glad you use it also. Your videos are very informative and detailed, thank you!
Glad you like them! MX is great!
perfect video, thumbs up mate. best linux installation video so far, a milestone really.
Cheers dude!
Great video man, keep it up.
Appreciate it!
Thank you, sir, from the bottom of my heart. This lesson is very useful. If there was a button with a billion likes, I would choose without thinking
@ahmad same A billion thank yous for your kind comment!
Great work, watched it twice, made it once and works like a charme! Thanks a lot and greetings from Austria (no kangaroos)!
@crownhouse2466 Glad it helped!
Excellent video to install MX linux, for those of us who do not have experience these videos help a lot. This is a real installation of how it should be done (not virtual), it has worked very well for me and the first time. Thank you very much for your excellent videos that are always very easy to follow for me that I am Spanish and I don't understand much English, continue like this, do not change. Excelente video para instalar MX linux, para los que no tenemos experiencia estos videos ayundan mucho. Esta es instalación real de como se debe hacer (no virtual), a mi me ha funcionado muy bien y a la primera. Muchas gracias por tus exelentes videos que siempre son muy faciles de seguir para me que soy español y no entiendo mucho de ingles, continua así no cambies.
@JUANCLARIPERALES Thank you for your comment. I appreciate the feedback and am happy you had success with your install.
Gracias por tu comentario. Agradezco sus comentarios y estoy feliz de que haya tenido éxito con su instalación.
I really like this alot. Good stuff, my friend.
Thank you! Cheers!
Thank you sir for such a thorough guide. Much appreciated!
You are really good at what you do. Thank you for this very useful video
@kalpakiyer You are very welcome
Well worth the hour because I have had to set up dual booting for folks
who want the stability and reliability of Linux BUT are still suffering the
vendor lock-in (that's a feature, NOT a bug) of Windows applications.
Ironically, once the ap is not needed it's the WINDOWS that "goes
away" without a trace 8)
@snsm6730 Thanks, I'm still using MacOSX on my iMac due to similar reasons. I appreciate your comment!
Excellent tutorial, thanks for the information
👏👏👏👏👏👏
Glad it was helpful!
20:19 - In the menu there's an option called "Partition Configuration". Clicking that makes it possible to configure an extra partition on the flashed USB drive where you can store loose files on which is very handy in live environments as when the ISO is mounted and used to run the OS it's not possible to access from within that environment. I use it for KeePassXC and KeePassXC database but also other helpful documents, like how to use grub etc.
17:19 In Rufus one can change "persistent partition size" to reserve room for another partition during flashing as well. This feature is also needed for MX Linux and AntiX persistence feature.
30:23 - A neat trick to both move and resize windows is to press and hold ALT then left click and hold with your mouse or on your touchpad buttons and that will allow you to then drag the window around. If you hold ALT and right click you get the resize functionality which is very handy. It works by approximation, so to resize from the lower right corner your cursor needs to be somewhat near it to guess that's the corner you want to resize from.
Once you've activated either grab or resize you can let go of ALT, just keep your mouse or touchpad button pressed for those actions and let go when you're satisfied with the result.
This is very practical on lower resolution monitors, like what I had to battle with on my old 2009 Asus EEE PC, a tiny 1024*600 netbook.
Excellent tutorial. I have an old Windows 7 Tecra notebook that runs MX-23.2 from a USB memory stick without problems, so I imagine it would probably do the same from the HDD. Just to make sure I thought I'd do a dual boot first before deleting Windows and making it a dedicated MX Linux computer.
@solanaceae2069 Thanks for watching! All the best with your progression to dedicated Linux use.
Congratulations!, very good video, clear, simple, very good tips too, thanks
@jlom48 Thank you so much for the kind words, I'm glad you found the video helpful!
Hi since I've learnt the very thorough lessons from your channel which I have placed my complete faith and confidence on what you do. I was just wondering whether you could do a (btrfs) complete tutorial here, in particular the way how to interact with (timeshift) for restoration/reinstallation, together with how to create (timeshift) into USB if possible etc… as I have watched various other channels' explanations but none of them I am confident with. Thanks in advance.
@reflexsamurai958 Thanks for your comment! I'll certainly put your suggestion on my list of potential videos to make. These days I actually prefer to use ext4 as I can specify where to save my timeshift snapshots which you can't do with BTRFS. Ext4 may be slower than BTRFS but having the ability to save the snapshots to a separate partition is worth the time.
@@StaempunkTV You have answered my request already as I couldn't find a method to back up (brtfs) into USB as it could only back-up to the system hard disk which could be a problem should the system be unable to boot up. Thank you once again.
Very nice video. I learned a lot.
Glad to hear it!
I did it your way using the different partitions, and I don't know what I did wrong, but the windows bootloader is gone. I have used MX boot repair, and I have tried fixing it using the windows command line after looking for information on Google. There's no GRUB menu at all, I have to use the flash drive that contains MX Linux. Any ideas?
If you go into your UEFI/BIOS do you have 2 seperate bootloaders, one for Windows and one for MX?
@@StaempunkTV No. I never did. I always had to start MX using the flash drive because it never installed GRUB. I think it's because it's my work computer. The options under the BIOS seem more limited than normal.
Absolut brilliant 👍🏻👍🏻
Cheers 🙏
you deserve more subs
Thank you for the outstanding tutorial !! I wanna ask you whether MX Linux would still work if I turn UEFI secure boot back on
Yes you should be able to re-enable secure boot. However I would encourage you to consult this thread about secure boot first: forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=67022
Thank you very much for your excellent videos. I'm wondering if it does make sense to install dual boot on two seperate disks, without using space from the Windows disk for Linux? I tend to install it in such a way.
@jerrelajoeb6531 In your case, I would probably install one OS per disk and create an NTFS partition that can be accessed in both Windows and Linux. Thanks for your comment.
It is a really Good tutorial, congrats.
@betcald-teach Glad you liked it!
Awesome video
Thanks!
Thorough great tips
What is the benefit of the 100 GB NTFS you made? since its not related to the MX 21 OS?
@Briefing. It is for files that I want to be able to access in both MX Linux and Windows. For example, if I download a file while I'm in MX Linux, I can move the file to the NTFS partition and then when I'm using Windows, I can access the file. And it works both ways. Thanks for watching!
Well done! Thank you for a such detailed explanation and especially how to roll back what was done - a very rare scenario on tech videos... but let me ask you:
1. About OS X (El Capitan) and MX dual booting. Should be the Disk Utility used instead of gparted? It seemed that it wants an additional package from Apple to handle the HPFS.
2. If you have dealt with OS X & MX Linux dualboot - where GRUB is placed and how to delete it's traces (if I want to wipe out the installed MX) ?
@petrov8086 Thanks for the question. I personally have never tried dual booting with OSX so I can't really weigh in with advice. My Macbook is only able to run an old OSX version that I'm happy to replace with Lubuntu Studio.
i followed your tutorial but i can't tick the esp type on grub option is this has something to do with mbr and gpt partioning table? 🤔 m a new comer ✋😅
@pauldox It is highly probable that it is due to being an MBR system and not a GPT partition table. Have you tried selecting MBR instead of GPT when asked?
thank you for your detailed tutorial videos i learned alot 😁👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ m on theming my mx linux now 😁
24:14 A shortcut to access the advanced start-up feature in Windows, one can just hold SHIFT while pressing the restart button from the Windows menu -> Power -> Restart, or Windows button + X -> Shut down or sign out -> Restart.
@RedSaint83 Great tips! Thanks for sharing your knowledge
very helpful but I have some questions b4 doing system changes.
1. i have set up Ventoy which is working on some of the iso. When downloading Ventoy it gives options windows or Linux. I used windows as I'm on windows 10 pro. Does this choice affect the booting capability? if I remove windows will the flash drive still work in the Linux machine?
2. I'm planning on changing the windows 10 pro to windows 10 as i have the activation code for the later. I remember many years ago it is preferable or necessary to install windows b4 Linux. Is this true?
3. Can you do a multi boot (more than 2 say 1 windows and 2 or 3 Linux) instruction video? I find your teaching method very simple to understand compared to others I've found. Does multi systems affect the performance of the machine? I'm running ASUS intel7 gaming laptop few years old now. My C drive 237 GB and DATA D drive 931 GB So if I'm understanding this correctly I shouldn't touch the D drive and partition the C drive only.
I see you have been quiet for a year so I've downloaded MX 23 and Vanilla OS and Endeavor Galileo (Ghost bsd and Nitrux didnt work for me) is MX23 very different to MX21.
Its been more than 20 years since I played with computers and built and repaired a few self taught. Paranoid of wrecking this laptop. All answers very much appreciated. Thank you.
@edwardpearce9668
1. It doesn't matter. A Ventoy USB created on a Mac can be used on a Windows PC or Linux etc.
2. Yep, Windows before Linux as the Windows Installer will overwrite the LInux partitions. If you create seperate partitions you might be able to install Windows to its own partition. I would experiment on an old computer if you aren't sure (that's what I do).
3. I'll add your suggestion to my list of potential vids. Multi systems don't affect performance as long as each 'OS' has all its partitions close to each other.
Hope this helps, cheers!
@@StaempunkTV thanking you, awesome to get such a quick response. All the best for your future.
Hello, mate.
How've you been?
I use *Debian Testing* and I would like to use *MX Linux,* but do I have how to switch the MX Linux's sources.list from *stable* to *testing?*
I do not want to stay stuck on stable for 2 years.
With the testing version I feel that I have found stability and some updated packages at the same distro.
Is that possible?
@garbosinho Hey dude, I'm good. Very busy doing other work but will be returning to do more YT vids in the near future. Yes you can absolutely change the sources list to the Testing Repo. In the MX Tools app you'll find the Repo Manager where you can change the sources or you can search for apps directly in the MX Package installer from the testing Repo. Thanks for your comment.
@@StaempunkTV I know you are very busy. So there's no problem if u have no time to answer my question.
I installed that xfce4-appmenu-plugin in my Debian Testing XFCE, but it just works with qt applications.
Do you know how to make it work with gtk applications?
Best regards.
Best Tutorial !!!
Wow, thanks!
@@StaempunkTV Can You Please Make Videos On Following Topics Because There Are No Good Videos On This Topics On RUclips :
Topics
- Xrdp Linux - (To Access Linux From Mac or Windows)
- X11vnc Linux - (To Access Linux From Mac or Windows)
- Net Speed Meter App For Linux
- How To Properly Remove Linux From Dual Boot On Macbook Pro (Same Like You Make Video For Windows - Because Every Time I Try This I Ended Up Messing The Whole MacOS & Have To Reinstall From Scratch)
Enough of VM. Going all in with MX as my main OS. The future is bright for Linux and MX, if not then we may have learned from our errors. Can't lose situation here. Thanks a lot for your time mate.
Ooh yeah, that's great. I've almost moved my entire workflow to Linux except for video editing because none of my laptops are powerful enough so it's almost for me. Thanks to you too.
Seems to me this process would work for other Linux distros as well, yes? If so, then is this an ideal setup for distro hopping?
I have used this setup dual booting Windows with Pop!_OS which worked fine. For distro hopping though, I've found that installing various distros to an external HDD is easier to do as there are less steps involved.
This video is very elaborate. I like it.
I'm glad you liked it. Cheers!
Thanx for the informative video. I can see why people aren't interested in using Linux. To many things to do while installing. I've used several other distros on external USB3 drives and they are way simpler no creating all those extra partitions.
I'm happy you got some value from the video. I understand about doing a simpler install process. There is the option to let the MX installer automatically do the partitioning. I like to utilize the speed of the BTRFS file system though hence the partitioning method I do. Thanks for the feedback!
You don't have to create them. I have done it by creating one partition only.
Amazing tutorial, thank you so much. u have nomidea how helpful this was.
I appreciate your comment. Glad it was helpful!
Saya dual boot mx & win. Tapi copy file dari linux ke ntfs tidak bisa? Solusinya?
@hartonpictures5008 Apakah Anda mencoba menyalin file ke partisi Windows atau partisi NTFS yang terpisah? Are you trying to copy files to the Windows partition or a separate NTFS partition?
@@StaempunkTV pastisi ntfs itu untuk data dan terpisah dari windows (partisi windows sendiri), partisi data sendiri (ntfs). Partisi linux juga sendiri. Utk copy file partisi ntfs baik pakai os linux atau windows. Anehnya di mint bisa, tapi di mx tidak. Ini masukan utk os mx linux. Karena pengguna tidak butuh monoton dilinux tapi juga multifungsi (copy data ntfs dari windows pakai os linux)
Best Tutorial
Thanks!
Brilliant video. Thanks!
After following the steps in this video my boot still went straight into Windows 10. I had no option to select which OS to boot into. The GRUB menu did not boot up at all. What did I missed here? Thanks.
You may need to reboot into your UEFI settings and move the MX grub bootloader up the hierarchy so it loads before the Windows EFI bootloader.
@@StaempunkTV Thanks for the quick response. Currently my UEFI Boot Order only have OS Boot Manager, Internal CD/DVD, USB Disk, ! Network Adapter. I don't see option to select GRUB MX Linux boot. I do see the grubx64.efi file in the 100 MB drive EFI/MX21 directory. I just don't know how to get the computer to select that to boot. Thanks.
Thank you sir, you're the hero.
I only have 20gb available to shrink n my laptop. Can I install it to 20gb to dual boot to my windows 10? If I can, can you reply in details how to partition the 20gb? I mean root how many? Home how many etc?
20GB should be ok as long as you aren't planning to download lots of files or install many apps.
Probably the best way would be to follow the partitioning method in the video. When you're in GParted, don't create the DualData partition or the swap partition. Just create one btrfs partition. Apply that and then back in the MX Installer, create the two subvolumes for root (@) and home (@home) using the method in the video. Good luck!
@@StaempunkTV one last thing, how many gb in my root and home? How to divide the 20gb? Thank you in advance
@Jules Bar By using the subvolumes method, MX will automatically allocate the space.
Awesome as always ! ...ich followed one of your past Videos, to design your MX. I did this inside a VM (Boxen) and "burned" it on a USB Device and made it persistend after.
So now i run a 256Gb USB LIVE-System of my customiced MX-Linux :-D
....but while using the stick gets really hot, ...besides it s a metal stick, which is good bringing the heat away, ...the system is quite laggy after some time, ....so i want it to run from my real SSD besides Windows!? ...which led to this Video :)
Can i use my already customised LIVE-Persisten-USB MXLINUX ...and integreate it like you advice in this video here, ....or is there a Handicap i didn´t saw jet ?
I mean: "Is it possible to install from a snapshot, or direktly from my live-system! ?"
Thx in advance, ...and keep going this awesome format of your videos
@flaschnpost_aus_fernost9167 Thanks for your comment and question! The way I do it is I install MX Linux first and then use the restore feature in Timeshift.
Thanks for this amazing tutorial.
Glad it was helpful!
Another brilliant installation demonstration, thank you again mate.
Just a layman question, why the windows grub partition need to be 100gb large?
@Reflex Samurai Thanks for saying! I make the grub partition 100MB so I can install other distros in the future. I could go 50 but I've found 100 to be a good size for my requirements. Cheers!
@@StaempunkTV Thanks again for your info, I figured it out after I post that silly question, thanks for your time and apology of that silly question!
Im wondering why you didn't add a flag like boot in partioning
Thank you for a excellent video
@Andre-ci8ce You are most welcome!
Excellent video, very informative for a newbie like me, would you do a similar video i.e. double boot but with Manjaro (Plasma or Xfce) ?
@erick-rm Great suggestion, I'll put it on the list of potential videos to make. I personally haven't used Manjaro for some time but the process would be pretty much the same as I demonstrate in the video.. After creating room for Manjaro by shrinking your Windows C: partition, boot up the Manjaro installer and create the following partitions: a 512mb FAT32 for the grub, a swap partition equal to your amount of RAM and a Root partition for Manjaro. I think you'd have to create flags and so on too but it isn't difficult to do.
@@StaempunkTV Thank you for your reply, can you create a sub-volume for root and home just like you did in the MX-Linux video? Just to let you know I went ahead and installed MX-23 in my 2 year old laptop instead of Manjaro Plasma. The latest MX works just fine the way you suggested in your video I have not had any issue, except that the swap partition doesn't mount automatically, I have to do it manually. Still I'm interested in installing Manjaro (or Endeavor OS) along Windows 10 in an old laptop I have just to try it and learn about Linux. Thank you for your videos they are excellent, clear, and informative.
thank for an awesome video :-) i am dual booting with MX23 on lenovo X1Carbon. initial boot in MX states "Press Enter for maintenance (or Control-D to continue)" enter login screen with the user; enter password; then login screen repeated appears! can not access the MX system! any hints & tips would be appreciated. (I have followed the instructions 3 times, same result each time) Hard drive & usb is GPT format.
@leadlearner6391 Perhaps try booting into your computer using your MX23 installer USB and then using the Boot Repair tool that can be found in MX Tools, rebuild your Grub.
I finally got MX-21 installed (KDE version) and was happy with it until I wanted to access my online accounts and there is no option in the settings for this. I got my trusty Ventoy usb out and booted up KDE Neon and low and behold online accounts available in the settings so I just installed KDE Neon over MX-21 and honestly, Plasma 5.26 is great. I am not a fan of xfce so it's a shame that what I wanted was not included in the KDE version for some reason. Enjoy your videos though and still a happy subscriber.
@Darryl Toombs That's interesting, I've tried MX21-KDE a few times and maybe it's my hardware but it has never been a smooth experience for me so I've never stuck with it. Thanks for your comment.
Good tutorial Thank You Bro.
@Cyber Walker Cool as.
i keep getting an error "not possible to create more than 4 primary partions"
@lakemarine484 It sounds like your hard-drive has been formatted to the MBR partition table which only allows 4 primary partitions. GPT allows for more but you would have to completely format your hard-drive to format to GPT. Your other option is to create an extended logical partition for the extra partitions you wish to use.
@lakemarine484 I've just created a video on how to format your hard drive using the GPT partition table so you'll be able to create more than 4 partitions although it does entail completely formatting your hard drive. Hope it helps. ruclips.net/video/YTbbtzRDL1U/видео.html
I used MX Lin but it crasches, cant configure it, many other problems - and no help on forum. I switch to Debian, which is not perfect but... hey! its work!
you are awesome
@dilipnir-9097 Awe shucks.
you helped me a great lot
@Kirmo13 Great to hear. Thanks!
I've had bad luck dual booting- I finally just got a SATA power switch module for $15 and I just push the buttons for the SSDs I want to have power. Windows, Fedora, Arch, MX, and a shared data drive that always has power. No risk of one os screwing with the bootloaders of others.
That module sounds pretty handy.
There is not option for root when partitioning sda6 only /home
@melonmusk1274 Root appears as /
Wonderful
@univera1111 Thank you
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Me too but I managed to retain a friendship
@@StaempunkTV I ENJOY MX LINUX PERIOD, I REFUSED TO INSTALL WINDOWS AGAIN,
MX LINUX HAS ALL I NEED AND FASTER
@Thuso William Lehutso Totally! Although I still have Windows on one of my dual-boot machines, I haven't run it in months. It just doesn't compare with MX Linux or Ubuntu Studio speed or feature-wise.
Hi very good
@user-th5ss8me4u Thanks for the visit
I personally prefer to run another operational systems, via qemu / kvm, I do not need to give the entire dedication of my machine to one or the other OS, nor depend
on boot
@bithostel That's a very cool and interesting way to do things. I've used QEMU in the past but sadly my hardware isn't powerful enough to effectively share OS's in virtual hence I install onto bare metal. Incidentally, I have 7 different Linux distros (Mint 21 XFCE, antiX, MX21 XCFE & KDE versions, Nobara, Ubuntu Studio and AV Linux) installed onto one of my laptops for different use cases. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Doh, I must have got something wrong, it just wiped a 2 TB hard drive with all my programs on it. Aaaaahhhhfffggg.
Yowch! I hope you had backups. I've done that before too but it turned out the 'rebuild' was better.
whoops im doing it the wrong way around ive got MX installed and I am going to try windows 7 on a partition
It should work although I haven't ever done it that way around. To have the option to boot into MX or Windows at startup, you could go into your bios/UEFI and get your computer to boot from the MX bootloader and then when you're in MX, run the command 'sudo update-grub' in Terminal and it'll add a Windows bootloader to your MX grub so you have the option to boot into either at startup.
windows 8.1 you cant be serious??
Only place we should BOOT windows??-- to the TRASH..
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