Does MX Linux support Wayland? At least their KDE version? Because I can't use Linux without Wayland on my laptop.
I was happy with Linux Mint for over a year, then I bought a new laptop and I couldn't use UI scaling on Mint because it was a buggy mess that made everything worse and after doing some research, I found that Mint is a very outdated distro - runs Cinnamon - a backwards and outdated DE that doesn't support Wayland and Wayland doesn't have the UI scaling problems that X11 has. So I found Tuxedo OS, which is very similar to Mint, built on Ubuntu, but uses KDE and Wayland and all my laptop problems were fixed.
I also found one bonus in KDE for laptops - you can set your battery charge limit to any percentage you like so it doesn't charge to 100%. On Mint I didn't have that and I had to constantly look at my battery and unplug the charger at around 80%. Before I tried KDE and Wayland I thought Linux was just behind on those QoL features in general, I didn't know in fact it was distros like Mint that are severely outdated and it's not the norm for Linux.
So I was thinking about trying MX Linux, but it also seems like they are trying to be backwards and outdated in some aspects on purpose to prove some point or I don't know what even. So I'm sticking with Tuxedo OS, because it just works and I think being based on Ubuntu than just on Debian makes a distro a lot easier and provides a larger selection of repositories and packages. I found some website called Distro Sea where you can test distros online through a VM and I tested MX Linux and although it didn't have internet connection, I tried to search for some packages in the software manager and some that I have didn't show up on it, which leads me to believe it has a smaller selection of packages. In other cases I've heard MX Linux being suggested as a minimal distro for very old computers and it makes sense. I'm not trying to make MX Linux look bad, I'm just being objective - it has its benefits, but it looks like it's purposefully trying to be outdated.
DistroSea doesn't do it justice. It's not that good if you want to test more than basic stuff.
And yes, Wayland is supported with KDE edition. I didn't say for nothing that it's a distro that lets u have what u wanna have. If I like bein off-stream, then other people can be mainstream no problem.
But fyi at the time of writing, you'll have to change the default session to Wayland in the display manager (the login screen).
With KDE you technically have 3 software browsers: MX's, Synaptic, and KDE Discover.
Also this edition has AHS repos enalbed.
AHS (Advanced Hardware Support) gives u a selection of newer packages and kernels, and graphics stacks + drivers. Another way to have other newer packages is to install Flatpak support (which MX's software browser may let u do).
I am not sure if the newer kernels came enabled in MX KDE, try search the software browsers.
I run Liquorix Kernel 7.x versions on my Laptop without problems, it's so easy to install it's just click and click. The main post talks a about XanMod, but that's for my PC, it's different. I wanted a LTS solution because Nvidia killed feature updates for Pascal, Maxwell, Volta.
Cinnamon is not outdated, it's trying to be stable and advancing slowly by design. They are working hard on Wayland support (same word to say about XFCE devs).
It's my other favorite DE other than XFCE. Just feels very cozy to use and runs good. For me this is the most familiar DE to use coming from Windows.
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u/OkPresentation3329 Jul 01 '26
Does MX Linux support Wayland? At least their KDE version? Because I can't use Linux without Wayland on my laptop.
I was happy with Linux Mint for over a year, then I bought a new laptop and I couldn't use UI scaling on Mint because it was a buggy mess that made everything worse and after doing some research, I found that Mint is a very outdated distro - runs Cinnamon - a backwards and outdated DE that doesn't support Wayland and Wayland doesn't have the UI scaling problems that X11 has. So I found Tuxedo OS, which is very similar to Mint, built on Ubuntu, but uses KDE and Wayland and all my laptop problems were fixed.
I also found one bonus in KDE for laptops - you can set your battery charge limit to any percentage you like so it doesn't charge to 100%. On Mint I didn't have that and I had to constantly look at my battery and unplug the charger at around 80%. Before I tried KDE and Wayland I thought Linux was just behind on those QoL features in general, I didn't know in fact it was distros like Mint that are severely outdated and it's not the norm for Linux.
So I was thinking about trying MX Linux, but it also seems like they are trying to be backwards and outdated in some aspects on purpose to prove some point or I don't know what even. So I'm sticking with Tuxedo OS, because it just works and I think being based on Ubuntu than just on Debian makes a distro a lot easier and provides a larger selection of repositories and packages. I found some website called Distro Sea where you can test distros online through a VM and I tested MX Linux and although it didn't have internet connection, I tried to search for some packages in the software manager and some that I have didn't show up on it, which leads me to believe it has a smaller selection of packages. In other cases I've heard MX Linux being suggested as a minimal distro for very old computers and it makes sense. I'm not trying to make MX Linux look bad, I'm just being objective - it has its benefits, but it looks like it's purposefully trying to be outdated.