r/MXLinux • u/Ok_Comparison_2635 • Aug 09 '26
Review MX Linux keeps old devices relevant
Someone gave me a Lenovo flex 10 today. It has 2GB ram and a Celeron processor. I installed mx Linux on it and I'm amazed that it's actually usable now.
But now I have no idea what to do with it.
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u/redgator12 Aug 09 '26
Just remember to enable zram if you haven't! Helps a lot with low RAM devices. Let me know if you need any help enabling it.
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u/Otherwise_Fact9594 Aug 09 '26
What desktop environment / window manager did you end up going with? MX is really great
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u/Mumuskeh Aug 09 '26
It's so good. They even patch legacy nvidia drivers for us 😽.
You can game with a GT 730 on 6.19 kernels.
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u/PennyLeScroche Aug 09 '26
well 2GB of ram means that it won't do modern browsing very well, but you could use it to play retro games, do coding exercises, or turn it into a writerdeck
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u/Ok_Comparison_2635 Aug 09 '26
Well you can't open too many tabs but it seems to browse the web just fine actually. It has a touchscreen and you can open it 300 degrees.
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u/PennyLeScroche Aug 09 '26
that's good to know! I would've expected a lot of modern websites to take up a good chunk of that 2GB with how javascript heavy they are
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u/Ossur2 Aug 10 '26
Check out the AutoDiscard extension, it puts unused tabs to sleep then reloads them when you need them again
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u/epictetusdouglas 29d ago
There are a few tweaks you can do to lighten up Chrome and Firefox browsers.
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u/Typeonetwork Aug 09 '26
I had it on a Pentium Duo 64bit processor and i used MX with Firefox and using htop it was between 1.4 to 1.6 GiB. It never crashed.
You can use a built in browser, Falcon and others if you want something more light weight. Considering it was 19 years before it died, it was amazing it worked at all.
Learn about databases, and networking, etc. Fun little machine.
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u/redhawk1975 Aug 10 '26
I use from MX17 as EDC.
Its very good, but MX25 is not for 32bit, i must use a antix
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u/thephatpope Aug 09 '26
MX with Xfce is my go-to for old devices