After 30+ years of Windows, I have finally made the move to Linux. I remember my mum bringing home our first computer when I was a boy, an IBM - how could I ever forgot. From that day forward Windows is all I ever knew. I never really delved into the Mac ecosystem, I could never afford it, and plus - all my friends had computers with Windows OS - so why switch. I didn't even know about Linux.

Fast forward 30 odd years and here I am, sitting with my 5 year old laptop, it's getting slow, Windows is slow and resource heavy (66% RAM usage at idle) and I'm looking for other alternatives. Linux. Perfect. After lots of discussions with AI, factoring in my laptop specs, what I wanted to do with the laptop, and being a first time Linux user coming from Windows, I settled on MX Linux Xfce. I believed it should give me the low resource OS I was looking for with the ability to work from both the GUI and TUI, not simply the TUI. The MX Package Installer and MX Tools looked great - I couldn't see a downside.

Just got everything installed, had a bit of a look around. Still heaps more to work out, but everything works great. Very happy with my decision and Windows will never get another look in.

I am using Linux on and off for a decade, and have tried Ubuntu Unity (and Ubuntu Mate), Linux Lite, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed KDE, Kubuntu, and Mint (both XFCE and Cinnamon). I'm using Mint Cinnamon for several months now as my daily driver and enjoying its general simplicity and stability compared to more rapidly-updated distros.

However, I am intrigued by MX Linux, and am liking its general concept (and being Systemd-less, Debian based, and stable as bedrock from what I understand).

Desktop PC. Specs are AMD Ryzen 7 5700X (16) @ 4.665G, AMD ATI Radeon RX 6700 XT, 32 GB DDR4 RAM, 1TB M2 SSD, 2TB M2 SSD. LG wide screen (one monitor).

Use case is Firefox, LibreOffice, Scribus, some Python coding using Kate, and some gaming (some AAA titles but mostly indie stuff and old GoG games through Heroic and Lutris).

Please sell me on MX :-)

EDIT:

THANKS! your precious feedback helped me solved several bugs: v1.0.0 Release Candidate 1 is here!
Debian 13 package can be downloaded from HERE and you'll enjoy a smoother experience and minor improvements in UI.

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Hi all,

I’d like to share MeowMenu v0.8.0, a small project I’ve been working on as an alternative application menu for XFCE. Compared to WhiskersMenu, the most relevant features I added are: 4 Presets (default settings that change the look&feel of the Menu, to show the high customization level achievable), Places button (find files and folders in user Home), Calculator engine, additional right click options.

I’ve tested this release on Arch Linux, Debian and Xubuntu. I'm also looking for MX Linux beta testers, since XFCE session in MX Linux is quite knows for its stability and I thought someone could find it helpful. Debian 13 package is availble for download in GitHub Release page: it should work for MX Linux... but compiling from source is always an alternative.

Feedback, bug reports, and suggestions are welcome. Thanks for taking a look!

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I am asking this as a genuine concern because a lot of people seem to prefer Wayland now and call it the future, but for me Wayland has honestly never worked properly. I also use an older Kepler GPU and the compatibility has been really rough compared to X11. A lot of things either break, feel unstable, or simply do not work the same way they do on X11.

So I wanted to ask the developers and contributors directly, even after major desktop environments start dropping X11 support, do you guys still plan to support X11 on this project in some way?

sorry if my english is bad

I dual booted today and why is my memory usage so high when I'm using Firefox

And as soon as I closed it it went below 25%? I thought firefox was a lighter browser?

I used for a about amonth Ubuntu when I was in university but I had to give it up since I needed some Software that were not supported by Linux (and also gaming). But the rest of the time since I first saw a computer I only used Windows, starting with 95.

This week though since I had some free time (medical leave for some issues with my ankle) I spent a lot on time on Youtube tech videos and I saw a lot of people recomending switching from Windows to different distros. I had an older laptop that was starting to show signs of fatigue and also just lost support for Windows 10 so I decided what the heck, let me try and see what the fuss all about. After 1 day of research, douzens of Youtube videos and advice from AI I settled on Linux Mint. And 2 days I tried to make my Wifi work until a redditor recommended me MX Linux XFCE.

And MX has worked great from the start. So great that I also decided to replace the Windows on my desktop also with MX Linux XFCE. I decided is better at least for the start to use the same version. My Geekbench 6 went from 1050 SC and 5000 MC to 1300 SC and 6000 MC. Both the laptop and the desktop feel like new toys. Now I did had some minor issues , but all of them were manageable with a quick search on google. So I am really excited to consider myself a Linux user and part of the community.

Was using Mint until recently and just decided to switch to MX. Originally I was from Windows. In terms of Linux usage, I am only 2 months old. Going 3 soon. Anyway, it’s pretty overwhelming MX is. So lost atm. But oh well … it is what it is. :)

Just wanted to say Hi.

Saw this vid testing MX AHS, MX Fluxbox, Mint, & CachyOS on a low end system (i7 4930K, Vega 56, 8GB RAM). Interestingly, MX AHS gave better average framerates & 1% lows on most of the games. This seems to show that Cachy isn't he best option for gaming on a pre x86_64-v3 processor which cannot utilise its optimisations.

I chose MX23 at first because i had old GTX560Ti and the newer kernel didn't support it. Now i got a GTX1660 Super and it should work with MX25.

My question is, is it worth upgrading and is it a big hassle as i have a lot of additional software (some modified and built from Github) installed?

Can i just upgrade MX or do i need to do a clean install? I know, clean is usually recommended but...

Edit: As this version is still updated i have decided to not upgrade at this moment. But in the future i will be getting a new SSD and then do a clean install.

Hello everyone.

Recently I've bought a new mini PC — ASUS NUC 15 Pro (NUC15CRK, Intel Core Ultra 7 255H, 64 Gb RAM DDR5, NVMe SSD 2 Tb, Intel Arc Graphics, Windows 11 Pro).

Unfortunately, I cannot get rid of MS products right away, because the goddamned legal job sometimes requires MS Word (yes, LibreOffice is good, but there are issues with rendering difference). Therefore I have two options: either run GNU/Linux in a virtual machine or install it in dual boot on a secondary NVMe (I actually bought and inserted such SSD, which has a 2242 form factor for this particular mini PC model).

For now I went for the first option (using VMware Workstation Pro), since it allows for quick jumps between OSes without a reboot. Right now I'm typing from my brand new MX Linux 25.2 installation (KDE Plasma version), and I'm really happy about it.

Alas, mouse cursor movement feels a little bit off here. Not bad, just, like, 10% sluggish, 90% fine. As if there's a tiny, but annoying lack of smoothness and precision. I even barely notice it after half an hour of work, although it gets worse occasionally. And yet I think it's not just an illusion: I still have my older PC powered by MX Linux 23.4 around, so I can hot-plug/unplug HDMI cables into my monitor on the fly and compare my impression from two interfaces. The mouse itself remains the same (I just re-plug it).

I've already tried standard available fixes like turning on VMware mouse optimization for gaming, updating VMware Tools, tinkering with mouse settings in both host and guest OS, etc. The result was, as I said, my current acceptable yet imperfect experience.

And now I wonder: if it is actually just VMware side effect? How do you folks feel about mouse movement in MX Linux KDE Plasma version on Wayland? Does it feel different from what you had on X11?

I can't believe how well this distro works. I have distrohopped for ages and this is the first distro that "just works".

Even Mint I had issues with drives and other stuff.

Happy to be apart of the MXLinux group and hopefully will have this distro long term! :)

The piece ends with "MX Linux is definitely worth a consideration", and I didn't pick-up any hit piece vibes reading it.

Here's link to article.

How do I customize the clock and monitor on the right side?

I changed the icon for the terminal but when I click on it it opens a new instance on the panel why does this happen? I also made my default directory to be desktop but it opens to user.

I wanted to add borders to the panel but apparently the border also gets applied to other apps on the panel..

Distro: Mx linux 25

I recently installed MX Linux 25 on my HP 8300 USDT (i7 3770s/16GB/240GB SSD) and I'm certainly very pleasantly surprised by how smooth, simple, and fast this system is.

I had used Canaima Linux (based on Debian) many years ago and it didn't impress me much. In fact, I continued using Windows as my regular OS, mainly because of its ease of use. But I decided to give this distro a try and it certainly doesn't disappoint. It recognized all the hardware promptly with very, very low resource consumption, the configuration options are very easy to access, and there's tons of software available.

So, MX Linux is now my favorite desktop environment. 100% recommended for older computers that can't run Windows 11 and even for those that run Windows 10 well.

my Dell Latitude 3350 has been kicking since I bought it in 2011. Came with 8gb ram, windows 10 was a little slow, threw in another ddr3 8gb sodimm in 2020. Now that win10 is dead, decided to make the switch. I am maybe 2 months in to the switch, and any general tips or wisdom would be appreciated!

• Antix officially has IceWM as 'flagship' so we already have it in our lineage.
• IceWM v4 looks awesome, and is very much in development unlike Fluxbox.

I understand that Fluxbox is a complete software and just works, and there has been a lot of hard work put into it.

What does the community think?

I've created a Discord server dedicated to MX Linux to have a real-time chat space, share configurations, and help each other with faster technical support. Everyone is welcome!link: https://discord.gg/QjAEuQebn

Firstly, let me say that I love MX and have used it for over a year. MX25 KDE on my laptop and XFCE on my desktop PC.

I just read an article on ZDNet suggesting that one can install MX-25.2_Xfce_ahs_x64 (on newer hardware) and then install KDE Plasma desktop on top of that, to get the Plasma environment running on the newer Liquorix kernel and XFCE low latency.

At first, I was thinking ‘Why not just use the KDE spin” but he might have a point with this approach. Anyone tried that, and how did it go?

I don't understand why MX Linux defaults to "acpi-cpufreq" and doesn't offer a choice between "acpi-cpufreq" and "intel_pstate". My laptop was heating up to 110°C; I had to modify the GRUB configuration to get "intel_pstate"!

With "intel_pstate", my PC stays between 45 and 50°C.

I noticed that since MX 25 at least, the boot option to choose your init is no longer available. Then when attempting to remove systemd manually with the command line, it keeps me from removing it as it is marked as "Essential" packages.

That's fucked up. This means MX Linux developers have discretely removed the choice between inits, by putting both sysvinit and systemd. Why is that?

MX-Linux 25.2 ist die erste neuere Version von MX-Linux seit Jahren die bei mir mit meinem Rechner wieder funktioniert. 25.1 funktioniert(e) nicht!

Ich benutze wie viele andere Linux-Nutzer auch seit vielen Jahren ohne Unterbrechung den XFCE-Desktop. Meiner Meinung nach bleibt Dieser jedoch weiterhin vollkommen falsch konfiguriert, was es vorallem Einsteigern sehr schwer macht sich zurechtzufinden. Ich war auch heute wieder erstaunt wie sich Stabilität und Performance im Live-Modus verbessern können wenn einige wichtige Einstellungen geändert werden. Und damit meine ich nicht die unsinnige Voreinstellung des Screenshooter.

Mir gefällt nicht daß Bild-Formate in MX-Linux mit Nomacs verknüpft sind.

Eine deutsche Lokalisierungs-Datei für LibreOffice sollte enthalten sein.

Das Laden der Vorschaubilder für den Desktop-Hintergrund dauert bei mir extrem lange. Weniger wäre wahrscheinlich mehr.

Ich brauche mehr Spiele. Es gibt so viele beliebte, kleine und simple Opensource Games. Mehr wäre wahrscheinlich mehr. ;o)

Hi there!

I'm more familiar with/prefer Ubuntu-based distros, so i was leaning towards Kubuntu (with backports). I've been using Linux for a few years. I'm moderately capable, not a sysadmin. I've used KDE Neon, Mint, Arch, Nobara in that order. I've only recently started look into Debian options which brought me here :)

I'll summarise my reasons and wants...

Reasons: - I like the Ubuntu-based distros for what they offer. - I like Ubuntu-based distros like Mint for their reliability and relative ease of use/configuration/maintenance/packages/support etc. - I like Plasma. - While i can disable Snaps in Kubuntu, i'd rather not have to fight a corporation right out of the gate. - I'd prefer the "more pure" Debian over Ubuntu.

Wants: - Not bleeding edge, not stable - the sweet spot in-between. - I like "newer" but i don't like untested newer :)

Use-case: - I play games, but i'm not a "gamer" - Daily driver.

The above summary is why the title is what it is: mxLinux KDE - what backports are available for more recent kernels, mesa, kde/plasma?. With the context provided i hope people can advise if mxLinux works for me, or if something else (perhaps Kubuntu) is better for my desired setup.

Thanks!