MX Linux 23.2 Full Review: My Impressions in 2024
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- MX Linux is a Linux distribution with a lot of bells and whistles - literally! This Linux distro is packed full of customization features, all backed by a stable Debian 12 base. In this video, Jay checks out the latest release.
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01:40 - How MX Linux improves on Debian
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06:01 - In-place upgrades are not supported
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"MXLinux is basically what you get when a system administrator designs a Linux distro"
Brilliant take, and very accurate!
this description is what caught my interest in mx
that plus deb as its foundation makes it for me at least a great one to try out.
Switched from Windows 10 to MX Linux a little over a month ago, and it's been pretty great.
I was using kubuntu for a good year, year and a half before crawling back to Windows. Linux was just way more work.
What I find most annoying about the different distributions is that they all have a different set of options available. And a different set of things that don't work for you. It took me four distributions before I found one that didn't have major issues with something fundamental. And even then, Linux was just more work than Windows. Which is saying something these days...
@RetiredRhetoricalWarhorse you sound like a lazy slob that expects everything to be done for you.
Is your install on modern hardware? I am thinking of trying it in my old HP Pavilion 17-e020us
@@@RetiredRhetoricalWarhorse / there is nothing wrong with using what you feel comfertable with, my personal feelings about the KDE ( kubuntu) desktop is a poor choice for a new to linux user simply, because there are so many settings available, it can be overwhelming. This MX distribution is using the XFCE desktop that is quite a bit easier to get adjusted too. I do not blame you for switching back to Windows after experiencing the KDE Plasma desktop.
@@JayRCela The reason I stayed with kubuntu is solely that it had no obvious dealbreakers. Debian just didn't want to boot and Devuan had issues with the sudo process... or vice versa, don't remember. Ubuntu and Mint had issues with the sound Mixer to the point I had to write a script to reset stuff whenever switching KVM between my personal machine and the work laptop.
kubuntu worked out of the box. But even so, It was just overall more work to do things, more things to know to get them done. I gotta say, though, the wife had fewer issues with it than expected.
Major pros: it doesn't use systemd but has a shim to allow use of stuff that needs it, and you can customize it and save that custom setup on USB hardware to use ANYWHERE.
i've been using this distro for a year - it's been my favourite since then
I've been on Mint Mate for years, even though I used to jump from one distro to another, just to see. Now, I have Mint on one of my computers and also MX one a second one.
In fact. I modify MX to make an ISO using their tools to make a customized one for people I help.
They really like it, being very basic users.
Many thanks to the MX programmers. They make it possible for me to help a lot of people use their computers easily! That's the sole purpose of my efforts.
(To be more precise, I've modified the code of a theme and am in the process of completing an icon theme for Mate).
Once completed, I'll make them available on Git on my blog.
Haven't tried MATE for a long time. Here's some input about cinnamon and MX. Maybe something makes it into the final official versions...
What's missing in MX xfce: startup programs aren't as easy or functional as in Linux Mint. A program that runs with wine was impossible to add after several hours of troubleshooting in MX, while in Mint is worked just by adding it without any command.
Dragging and dropping things to rearrange them in the panel also seems impossile in MX.
KDE seems not polished. Changing the theme to dark makes some input text almost dissapear in the menus, as they're not taken into account with a black background.
What's missing in Mint: being able to choose a second mouse in the menu and edit it's parameters individually. As a 2 mice user, this would be very practical to invert the buttons on 1 of them.
I'd like to add a 'show desktop' button in mint. This button is gold and having it moved to somewhere else is not a good decision. Mint is a bit too uncustomizable.
I really like most of Mint and most of MX, the little details are what make them flawed. I'd not mind if something of both bleeds over to improve them.
I tried MXLinux for a few weeks in Virtualbox and was impressed enough to install it on a very old , with upgraded hardware years ago Core2-Duo based computer that I have not used for some time now and it is working with no issues. I am impressed with this distro , and would have no hesitation recomending it. Thanks for another great video :_)
Many great tools in this distro, especially the ISO snapshot tool. Useful for deploying a mirror copy across multiple machines.
MX is the truth. I've been a Debian user for more than a decade now but in the past couple years I've switched over to MX on most of my new installs. As you get older, you appreciate things that just work. And MX never fails. A complete and functional OS out of the box every time. Those guys are just killing it. Their suite of built in tools puts ever other Linux distro to shame.
I just recently switched from Kubuntu to MX Linux with KDE
It is great! Even better than Kubuntu.
Having Debian as base and all the tools and possibilities like:
the MX Tools, choice for SystemD or SysVinit, a huge Suite of Software and Advanced Hardware Support with 6.7.4. Liquorix Kernel result in the perfect Distro for me.
After some Distro Hopping and uncertainties i have finally arrived and will settle down with MX Linux!
Thank you MX Linux Team you work is very appreciated!
I have been using MX 19.4 for several years but support runs out in June I believe. It has been rock solid but I went ahead installed MX 23.2 and I love it. Not a major difference to me from MX 19.4. I have all updated and it is working perfectly. I even installed a Nvidia 4gig Quadro graphics card and the built in Linux Nvida driver installer worked great! My screen is beautiful now. 16000 X 900 resolution. Just the best! Since my good friend talked me into Linux I have never looked back. It is a hands down rock solid OS and the Brave Browser is insanely awesome! My PC is super fast!
Installed 23.3 KDE. I have a new Beelink mini PC. Running Kubuntu 23.10 runs OK, but, wifi is slower by 40% I assume due to the older kernel. I know run at full speed on MX. Cool content.....again!
Great review!
I'm in the process of finding a suitable replacement for my 2015 notebook, but I get the feeling once I upgrade that I'll be putting MX on the current machine and continue to daily it for media consumption and web browsing.
One thing I really like about MX is probably the 1st thing anyone notices, and that's the whole clock and system widget right there on the desktop. I find it handy, particularly on older hardware with somewhat limited resources.
Sure, it can be implemented on other distros, but with MX it's already there, and I do enjoy the rest of the UI
This is a pretty good video!
I just subscribed, and I have been looking for a video with a good high level overview of Linux and the main pieces of the operating system, filesystem, and most commonly used and needed apps and what they are used for. I haven't found anything like that yet. You have some really good videos that cover a lot of the basics, but I feel that an overview is missing, as I struggle to correlate how they fit together with the big picture.
I first tried Linux early 90's and found it lacking at the time. I'm now looking to move off Windows as it's going the wrong way & Linux is going in the right direction - IMHO user centric.
Great Video i appreciate the attention to details that other channels miss and within a short period of time.
I like how many options MX Linux gives you. It is easy to switch to systemd if you want or need to. It makes installing different kernels easy. It has the gui manager for conky. And I love all of the tools like the snapshot tool
Yes! Probably the easiest distribution for the average Joe to tinker around with and customize.
Excellent reply!! I use Linux to record my radio shows as well as digitize my LP's and CDs.
I had used MX Linux as my daily driver. When Debian 12 came out, I was more impressed with it than I had been with MX Linux, so Debian 12 became my go-to distro, at least on my old Dell Latitude. I also have a Toshiba Netbook that I use to test distros that claim to be 'Light'. If it will load and run on the Toshiba, they are indeed light. I tried to load a distro, recently, that succeeded only in deleting the contents of my main and Backup HDs Since there was nothing on the backup drive, it was no loss but time. I "Reinstalled" MX Linux, which had been resident on the Toshiba before the deletion, and when it booted up - I didn't recognize it. I was initially fascinated by the neat new logo that let me know it was, indeed, MX Linux, and when I started playing around with it I found it worked a little differently from what I had been accustomed to seeing. I'm not ready to switch from Debian to MX on my larger laptop, but who knows what the future holds.
Thanks for the review.
I agree! I had that "wow!" experience too with that latest version, since it's been a couple years since I last ran MX regularly. I had stuck with it then for over a year because it worked on my oldest devices too, and worked well. My test machine for light distros is an Acer E11 that at first I only kept around because I love it's keyboard for writing (even fully upgraded it's glacially slow compared to...everything), but which eventually came to be my gatekeeper machine...if it approves of a distro then it's a green light for my other ones lol. I originally loved MX for the toolset (you know what I mean), but eventually wanted to try Arch, so I've been around the world, including SUSE and Fedora stuff. You just can't beat deb-based though! I'm actually back on my first distro from 2014-ish, Linux Mint, because out of the 40-50 distros I've ran over the last three years, it truly has met all of the points of comfort in my head. I've got LMDE going on a couple machines because I want to be pure Debian and do away with the Canonical bits, but there are still a few less-padded areas in it that I'm going to wait for them to catch up on before I make it my one-and-only. Have a great day!
Шикарное видео! Я им пользуюсь с 2018 года! Просто замечательный MX Linux!
I'm going to install this over my Linux MINT XFCE install on my old desktop PC. In the past I always had problems installing this on real hardware. I like the fact that you said it's the best XFCE you've seen. Thanks for the review. FYI I'm running Fedora 39 XFCE on my Laptop and Solus XFCE on my Chromebook. I also find it interesting that MX Linux has remained number 1 on Distrowatch for many years.
I love MX-- have it as my BACKUP... I put all my "high use" apps on PLANK and don't mess with the menu hardly ever - unless I want to tweak something for need some tools for something else. It's FAST- can be anything I want- and STABLE.. MX is the ONLY distro I've run for a LONg time that has NEVER had a single issue for me to have to fix!!!
Using the AHS version of MX Linux for an even newer kernel. Very pleased with the experience. Also easy installation of VM tools to try out other distributions.
Thanks for the great review as always!
Been an MX fan for quite some years. I am no computer techie, so some of the utilities and tools come in very handy to me. There is however one thing that plagued me: if you know nothing about the system initialization, there is a nasty surprise. I found out that myy MX 21.3 was using the init system and therefore that created problems with setting up samba. The normal tools for samba are only available under systemd. You can however boot from systemd, the option is provided in the MX boot manager. Still, it is one of those things where a non-proficient user could lose a lot of time, researching this....
That's why people should, like I do, read more.
Love the T-shirt!
Love MX Linux it's my favorite distro for older machines and weak ones.
On older machines it's working very good, on newer (fast) machines it's working excellent.
Thanks for the review. You can upgrade to a new version exactly like you upgrade a Debian installation, nothing stops you from that, we even have a somewhat simplified (over "Debian way") how-to somewhere, but it's true that we mostly recommend doing a clean install -- it might be good practice anyway after using a system for a couple of years.
Exactly! I've started with MX-23 months ago, now - it is 23.2, upgraded via standart apt.
@@user-by7ji6fm3y granted, he was probably talking about updates between releases that change the Debian base (like from Bullseye to Bookworm)
Well, I think the reviewer missed everything that is good about Mx Linux and in the process gave everyone the completely wrong impression about it. I switched from Linux Mint and am never going back. USB Remastering and the performance without the terrible Poetering software (can't even remember it's name) is the main reason for using it.
Run 5 distros at the moment. Primary laptop uses PCLinuxOS , primary desktop uses MXLinux, Other desktops use Manjaro, Mageia, and OpenSuse Leap.
I also listed them in order of my preference.
OMFG that's the distro! I installed an earlier version of it on my laptop. Loved the distro. I then of course forgot which distro it was, lost the install drive, and then wiped the drive the OS was installed on. I've been killing myself since as I've wanted to continue using the distro but couldn't find it.
great review, one of the better distros out there still supporting 32bit architecture.
currently running on an asus eeepc 1000 w 2gigs of ram and a dedicated ssd/partition limited to 8gigs to fit it on.
for those who have the device the 8gig partition is a particular annoyance but after some slight de-bloating i manage w 300mb to spare.
caveat, home directory must be on 32gig partition to fit.
Very good distro all around and great review gonna stay on this one for a while, i have a nvidia gpu and it's even easier than many distros to install latest drivers if you want to, the only criticism that i have is that the kde version (in my experience) i had unexpected freezes of the system while playing video games, but the xfce version (main version and recommended) works perfectly,.
Thank you for the fantastic video.❤❤🎉🎉It maybe think of installing Linux mx on my main PC and maybe later on even on the laptop.❤❤😮😮😊
Nice review, Jay. I ran MX Linux several years ago and then forgot about it. Recently, I wanted to try it again, so I put it on an unused partition on one of my SSDs. I really like this current version- it feels solid, and runs quick and snappy on all applications. Yes, the lack of an upgrade path is a downside, but I typically install OSes fresh every few years anyway.
Maybe it's an opinion informed by my Windows background, but I always lean heavily towards complete refresh over upgrade. Always suspicious that there are going to be unnecessary bits and pieces hanging around cluttering things up. I've learned over time to keep data on separate partitions and to use as much portable software as possible.
Great review. Thank you.
Mx is my favorite distro
This one looks pretty neat, I'm wondering if it's good for playing some games on it as well. Things like Factorio, Starcraft and Diablo. Maybe an idea for a video sometime, to cover some distros with gaming in mind. I'm running Garuda, and I've even set up a Mint with Steam installed.
Ubuntu also places the application launcher on bottom; but in my opinion, users will be using the Super key as it launches a whole different interface from their current screen (overview) rather than popping up a small menu on the bottom side. But for a whisker menu, placing it on the bottom is not really adding points on usability.
Good Video. I now know I wouldn't want to use MX Linux as a daily driver without an upgrade path. There are other options out there and even Linux Mint has an upgrader tool. This release looks nicely polished but reminds me of the latest Sparky Linux 8 with XFCE and is alot of fun too. It has a semi rolling release with an easy to upgrade path. They also have some unique packages that are compiled and ready to run without
In my opinion and my opinion only, there really isn't any excuse to produce a distro without an easy upgrade assistant in this day, especially since it's perfectly ok in the Linux world to use the relevant code someone else has already developed. I've used the ones in Mint and Sparky as you have, and the benefit is a marked lack of anxiety over a botched upgrade process. I've used the Mint routine on several laptops when I was bumping them from 21.1 to 21.3 for the simple fact that I was too lazy to re-download the 21.3 iso when I had the older one already. Never a problem. All distros could have this!
I recently installed MX Linux on one of my inexpensive laptops for some Spanish only speaking friends of mine to use. Obviously, I installed their account in Spanish, and also installed an account for me in English. None of them had ever used, or even really knew of Linux. They have been using it extensively for about three weeks now, and I have not had to answer a single question or do any kind of modification for them. They are doing everything they want to do, without any difficulties. Of course, mostly they are just doing CZcams, and browsing, but they have had zero difficulties making the switch. I had had Manjaro on this laptop prior to setting it up for them, but was having difficulties with updates in Manjaro, and didn't feel like researching and working to solve the issues.
My current distro for my steam machine. It just works. No drama.
Rock solid, MX Linux is my daily driver. Sifted from lubuntu 2yrs ago and have never looked back. Snapshot tool (not Timeshift) is unique, is not available in any other distro. Playing around with Linux Mint & all versions of Debian, but MX will be my daily driver of choice as of now.
I used MXLinux as my daily driver a few years ago. I was impressed with it then but let’s just say that it wasn’t for me. I’m glad to hear that it has remained an awesome distro. Nice review.
Been using MX linux for a while. Had Mint for a year and as I hated Cinnamon and used XFCE, there was no specific reason to use it. Tried several distros that crashed the amdgpu driver. Ended fixing it while running Mint. Really wanted to get away from an Ubuntu-based distro. LMDE was ok, better after the Debian 12 upgrade. Debian was clean but needed manual drivers.
MX linux comes with a newer kernel but also includes drivers for things like wireless that are missing in LM and Debian. Examples are the Realtek drivers are finally in the kernel in 6.2 but MX include DKMS drivers for the included 6.1 kernel.
My only beef with MX Linux is they have MX Tweaks, MX Tools, and MX Config. Often it is hard to remember where a setting is and you can't find them in the main menu as they are under these programs.
6:00 Upgrades...Not entirely true. Upgrades between major versions (say MX-21 to MX-23) is best done with a clean install but there is a post on the web site that walks you through upgrading from MX-21 to MX-23. Point releases are updated automatically that follow Debian's point release cycle. We are currently on MX-23.2 (Debian 12.5) and when Debian 12.6 comes out MX-23.2 will be upgraded to MX-23.3 automatically.
This, and also MX is the only distro I've seen in my life, that can handle /home under the same partition where / resides, so when a user wants to reinstall at some point for w/e reason, the installer can preserve /home on the exact same partition where the root filesystem is. This and the MX-service-manager made me switch to MX.
I have been using MX for a number of years now and find it both good looking and stable. I love the options you get for setting things up just the way you like them,it's the KDE of xfce in that respect. I think the dev's do an excellent job with MX and it's a worthy successor to Mepis Linux.
MX is one of the few that still has a 32 bit version for old computers that works well.
Until 2023, I used the 32-bit on my pre-2005 Acer laptop that was only good for 32-bit. It was my mail mule, study tool and the grandkids played Swell Foop on it. When they keyboard started dying, I threw it out. Am shopping for a refurbished ThinkPad T470s with 16GB/512GB as a replacement, to run MX Linux KDE AHS on it.
Too bad you threw it out. My 2008 Acer laptop's keyboard died and now I just use a usb keyboard which works even better.
I think the point of having the application menu on the bottom is that it's the same spot as with a horizontal bar.
Something to add is that it works great as a portable distro, it runs and boots very fast even as a live USB.
I have this on my pi 5. It works well, except it keeps re-adjusting the display to 4k even though it is set to 1920 x 1080 in config. txt. I always have to run xrandr to fix it.
MX Linux is one of my three go-to's, along with Linux Mint (Cinnamon) and Mageia.
I migrated my windows
old PCˋs to Linux MX and performance is great!
I do agree that MX-Linux is a superb and highly polished distro that works out of the both on every machine I've installed it on. It can also be used as a basis for a mobile OS on a usb key or disk and its iso has many extras to facilitate this.
When I first tried MX Linux, i immediately moved the toolbar panel to the bottom. Then I tried MX LInux on my old laptop and realized the side panel helps to stay out of the way of your work, especially if you have a smaller screen.
That's what auto-hide is for.
I'm on Pop OS, and thinking about going over to Linux Lite, another XFCE-based distro. But I'm just feeling a little too lazy to change out distros right now😋
if you're satisfied with your current one, there's really no need to change
MX rocks. I have MX Fluxbox edition on a HP laptop I got from my job
Though is not my distro of choice, I will say they do have some interesting features.. One is they tend to use performance based kernels, which appeal to the gamer crowd.. Another feature I find to be both good and bad is, their init script is their own creation.. Though I find the code base looking like something started as a college project, that over the span of its evolution, has had features tacked on.. Even though it appears feature creep has turned it into an unwieldy behemoth, they do incorporate very nice concepts within it.. They have done very well for such a relatively small dev team. I do believe, if one were to rewrite the init, it would be less than half its current size, and perform much better.
I used it for my 16 gb ssd, its take 6 gb after install and its work very good. Good job.
I'm running mx with Kde wayland. It's beautiful.
I recommend linux mint Debian Edition or pure Debian if update is a issue
What's missing in MX xfce: startup programs aren't as easy or functional as in Linux Mint. A program that runs with wine was impossible to add after several hours of troubleshooting in MX, while in Mint is worked just by adding it without any command.
Dragging and dropping things to rearrange them in the panel also seems impossile in MX.
KDE seems not polished. Changing the theme to dark makes some input text almost dissapear in the menus, as they're not taken into account with a black background.
What's missing in Mint: being able to choose a second mouse in the menu and edit it's parameters individually. As a 2 mice user, this would be very practical to invert the buttons on 1 of them.
I'd like to add a 'show desktop' button in mint. This button is gold and having it moved to somewhere else is not a good decision.
I really like most of Mint and most of MX, the little details are what make them flawed. I'd not mind if something of both bleeds over to improve them.
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tried it last year. couldn't get any of my workflow to run on it. had problems with virtual box and other things. went back to mint. i do enjoy keeping an eye on it but not ready yet to try it again.
I LOVE it for "SNAPSHOT"-- being able to make an ISO out of MY customized running system and then be able to reinstall with that if I have any issues or change machines etc... WISH I could use the SNAPSHOT tool with OTHER distros to do the same thing- and they say I cAN--but I don't know how- I"Ve tried.. Any ideas???
Found a T500 Thinkpad for $15 and put MX on it. It is very usable.
T-shirt is the best!
How did you make the matrix wallpaper in the computer behind you?
I’m pretty sure that is a package that is available in most distributions called “cmatrix”. To get it like he had it running, you’d need to fullscreen your terminal.
Hope that helps!
Don’t know much about a science book, don’t know much about the French I took, but I do know that I love your T-shirt!
Switch the panel to the bottom and this is a good XFCE distro. It is my of my favorite Debian based distros after Sparky.
Agreed. I think the distribution's great but some of the design choices seem intentionally clunky and awkward.
Yeah it's my one minor gripe with MX Linux - it's a ridiculous default, but luckily is easily changed with MX Tweak. I'm pretty sure the majority of people want a standard bottom taskbar though, and seeing that strange side taskbar will definitely put some people off.
The MX installer is well-thought out, where it asks for just enough information to begin copying files, and then it continues copying in the background while you're finishing up setup options. It's a time saver.
I download the KDE version last night, and I'm going to try it on my gatekeeper laptop today. I ran MX in the version 19 through 21 days, and enjoyed it, but began an epic hop-fest that ended up back on my very first distro, Mint, and also LMDE. Still, MX has little competition in the tools department, with (in my opinion), Garuda and OpenSUSE being the closest ones.
"Different for the sake of being different." -- you've just identified the roots of the MX developers' political philosophies, at least the ones originating from the Anti-X side of things. I personally don't care what anyone chooses to believe, but when their beliefs bleed over into the products they offer, it can be jarring and irritating at times. Of course, it's no problem, barely an inconvenience, to fix all of those discrepancies.
I use Mint as my daily driver on a tower, Zorin on my (cheap disposable) travel laptop, and MX on my backup emergency laptop in case everything Ubuntu-based turns to garbage. The only reason I don't recommend MX for a first-time Linux convert is that it can be overwhelmingly customizable. It is perfectly usable right out of the box, but once you start clicking on menus, it can be frustrating.
And once you start customizing, you just can't stop, so there goes getting any work done.😁
I've noticed they've taken away features, such as "flatpak" isn't enabled by default, as in previous versions. Gthumb isn't installed, as in the previous version and the codec installer, isn't in "MX Tools", as in the previous version. These are what stuck out. I love MX linux, I run it as a "live USB", and works great, for what I need it for.
Everything you claim has been taken away is still there, though due to double ups, moved into MX Package Installer. GThumb was causing grievous issues for many users so it was canned in favour of Nomacs. I voted against using GThumb when it was originally suggested and I'm very, very glad we've come back to NoMacs, it was almost unanimous amongst the Dev team. If you want GThumb so badly go ahead and install it, it's still available as are all the other 65,000 Debian packages.
I’ve used Mx Linux for over a year now and it’s been a very good to me. I’ve also used it as a crutch to understand Debian.
Is that "no upgrade path" a thing with THIS version only? I've never had any issue doing that. I don't mind either way-- I kinda like to re- install things every so often anyway... save me distro - hopping for something useless...
If you search "update mx Linux", they provide instructions to go from 19 to 21 and 21 to 23. I updated not too long ago. I'm not sure what that "no upgrade path" is about.
Yeah, the info in the video is just wrong, there is an upgrade path. The catch is there's no easy upgrade utility that fixes issues along the way for you like in Mint. I can see how a lot of people wouldn't be comfortable without one. However, reading about it, the dreaded "Your apt policy is incorrect, Reboot" result potential makes it seem like a turn-off to me.
Honestly, I cannot understand how ant\y distro without a direct upgrade path could be number 1 on Distrowatch or anywhere else. MX Linux is pretty awesome, but as someone that consider efficiency paramount in most things I do, lack of a direct upgrade path is a deal breaker for me.
An earlier commenter mentioned there is a post on the MX website that details upgrading from version 21 to 23. Also that point upgrades happen following Debian's release cycle. Sorry i don't remember the persons @ identity to credit them for this info.
MX Linux is one of my favorites. It feels really underrated in the communities I find myself in.
Can I run this on my old Socket 939 Athlon 64 3800 with a 120gb HDD and 4 gigs of memory
You didn't mention MX's ability to configure a whole system, add apps and fully customize it how you want it, and then create a "live install" to deploy that exact system across multiple machines!
A tool like MX Live USB Maker would've made my refurbishing work from 2012-2017 way easier. No waiting on a network-based installation to see what, if anything, needed troubleshooting.
According to Mx Linux, they moved from Debian 11 to 12 so there is no upgrade path. I have used it for years and there were paths in Deb 10 and I am up to v19, but it is end-of-life so I have to do a clean install. As long as they are in Deb 12, there will likely be upgrade paths.
My laptop is so anemic that windows constantly freezes. Never happens with MXLinux using dual boot. Only problem is some shared folders on my nas don't show up with the file explorer so I still use windows sometimes.
So if I'm experiencing errors, the update will reset everything to factory default settings. That's pretty cool actually.
Thank you.
MX Linux is just an awesome Distro. It has taken over my desktop from Ubuntu.
Is it any wonder from what you describe, that MX Linux is the most popular distribution out there, from what I've heard?
I do like MX. But I'm a sucker for a rolling release. Arch spoiled me. One of the main reasons I left Mint was it's not a rolling release. It would be great if there was an MX Linux SID edition.
Please, give SparkyLinux a try in 2024. It's another distro that improves Debian for desktop use.
MX is my daily driver for quite a few years. I was even a MEPIS user at one time. It's a superior distro. The full version works well on my Pi 5...not the respin,
I did a deep dive into MX and LMDE looking to settle on a new daily driver.- (drum roll)...for personal use, I see the issue as one of looking at a distro as a tool. To tell you the truth, I don't really care whether I can change the color, of say, my hammer for instance, I use a hammer to drive nails, NOT as a fashion statement, similarly, I use a distro to do work,: NOT to work on the distro. In the end, I went LMDE and haven't really looked back. As always though, it's just my personal choice, PS: I DID end up changing the colors of my tabs and buttons though, *wink*.
I have bo,the LMDE and MX Linux on my computer. I love both of them. Very solid and fun. I spend more time in LMDE probably because I like Cinnamon. I'm not sure how to make LMDE faster. MX is faster and so is sparky Linux.
@@rmcellig I hear you, Mx seemed a bit faster, but I'm not a 120keys per second typist, and once I get a system the way I like it, I no longer do a lot of compiling. LMDE runs my composing tools plenty fast, is lickety split on video/gaming frames, and takes just a little bit more time on my scientific calculations, but not enough that a cup of coffee won't compensate for :) I also like the ease with which it installs/uninstalls programs and the detail they put in to ensure that the next little upgrade doesn't trash your system/subsystems. Especially coming from Microstuft, where they seem to have abdicated ALL responsibility for pushing out 'upgrades' that are simply 'not ready for Primetime' i.e. they seem to have shouldered the general public with their qc. I can no longer count the times I've had to take MS's advice on an issue to be "Wipe and Reinstall":(
My last comment on LMDE vs. MX is that though it may be just my imagination, seems to me that lMDE sanctions the use of a few more repo's than MX.
I love mx, but im having trouble with fluxion,
Everything works but the fluxion web service,( and it did download it all its dependencies)
Im not a pro on this, try few things but with not luck. I have to fall back to parrot, there fluxion works just fine.
If anyone can help me with this, i want to go back to mx,
Thanks
I didn't know you can't upgrade to a new distro version, that is bad news for me. Another distro bites the dust!
MX.23.2 really needs almost no tweaks or adjustments but available if you need to go there.
MX 23.2 supported for the next 4 years I believe. A no brainer install.
Solid as a rock, beautiful and user friendly, this is the distribution that I recommend or install to people who just want to use Linux and have peace of mind.
Thank you for this review !😎
I am a user of Linux mint cinnamon edition can I follow your channel for my Linux related queries and improvement or MX Linux totally different from relax mint
Have you tried Arch Linux?
The ULTIMATE Linux distro would be Taking the BEST Linux in existence LINUX MINT MATE and combining it with MX Linux...both a Ubuntu based and a Debian based versions until Linux Mint fully goes Debian. It should have Linux Mint as the Foundation, and add all the MX Linux Tools and features and have dual Desktop Environment of which you can choose at Login. and that would be XFCE as the Default (because it lighter and smaller for low spec PC's to be able to boot and MATE.
My benchmark for any distro is if they have a gui tool to add/modify users and add them to groups. This is a must-have tool for someone setting up family accounts. I didn't see any such tool in the menus you scrolled.
I use the KDE rather than the XFCE version but I assume it is the same. It has a "MX User Manager" tool included in the MX Tools menu which appears to do all that you list.
@@chrishoddinott5450 good to hear
Nice review...I'm going to test...Thank You...ENTRA MX Linux...
No upgrade path makes this distro dead on arrival. Thanks for saving me the trouble of finding out too late.
I'm new to Linux and I think there are too many. This is one of the big reasons lots of people stay away. It's very intimidating. Maybe these teams need to consolidate? I think 3 to 5 is good.
I love your videos but is your default like 8K because I can never get through a sing one of your videos without SEVERE buffering. My internet isn;t the greatest but it's not horrible.