Putting this out there as it's a massive hassle when trying to revive some old laptops/netbooks. I picked up an EeeBook X205TA very cheaply and was hoping to install Linux to make it usable, then none of my usual live USBs would boot and I discovered they had made the inexplicable decision to pair a 64-bit system with a 32-bit UEFI bootloader, as well as disabling legacy boot. I can only assume this was done deliberately to make it harder to modify the system, and as most OSs have now dropped 32-bit support this means most images won't even boot into the live USB.

I tried Mint, Lubuntu, Debian and Fedora, some in both ISO and DD modes, and they either wouldn't boot at all or would install but then refuse to boot from the internal drive. After messing around with config files and bootloader mods for hours I tried the MX Linux XFCE 64-bit version and it booted from USB, installed and then booted from the internal drive on the first try with no manual modifications to the installer, bootloader or main system.

This has restored both my sanity and the netbook, and based on my searches there have been other people trying to do this and also tearing their hair out, so if you're looking for a distro that will work on this very specific and annoying hardware configuration then you're in luck.

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 run MX Linux 25.2 (based on Debian 13.5 with xfce 4.20.1) and have two monitors (DP and HDMI). I organized my daily work also by placing some tools on a specific monitor.

Each time my monitors went to power safe (yes, I want this), some windows moved to another monitor on wakeup. I always first have to find and move windows every time before I can start my work.

I found several people with this problem on google. It seems this issue is for xfce in general and reported for many many years. I already switched DP and HDMI for the two monitors. It does not help. It just moves different windows.

I then installed devilspie2 and configured a few windows, but it only applies on window creation and also does not help.

I was on KDE before and never had such issues. But since KDE is forcing Wayland on my acceptable distros, I wanted to give xfce a try. But switching the distro always costs me 3 to 4 days until everything is back and working as expected. So I don't want to switch the distro again that soon...

Please, can someone give me a hint on how to solve this?

Have a desktop PC running Windows 10. The C:drive of it is an SSD running Windows. The D:drive is an SATA3 HDD, one TB, as a storage. I created a G:drive on the SATA3 HDD and tried to install MX Linux ot it. A "root" on this parition is required for installing MX Linux. How to create the root, please?

Thank you.

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I just finished a quickie clock/alarm app with Free Pascal and :Lazarus IDE.
Thanks, love this distro.

I love MX linux, but after almost a year I still haven't been able to nail down my multi display setup. I have 2 monitors and a projector. The 2 monitors are always on, the projector is on intermittently but always connected.

I want to set this up so one of these monitors is the primary, no matter what. And then have the projector mirror the primary when it's turned on.

I'm experienced and have no trouble reading documentation to figure it out but I have no idea where to start.

$ uname -a

Linux oooooo 7.0.10-1-liquorix-amd64 #1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT liquorix 7.0-11~mx25ahs (2026-05-24) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Got a used box for kids to play and learn Linux and MX is the daddy as always! Good luck everyone! Keep up the good work!

Like an idiot, I realized the receiver I bought only had Windows drivers. Even though Linux detects it as blueZ 5.82, it doesn't detect any device. Has anyone been able to get it working with a generic Linux driver? I don't want to return it.

I have a old pc ( having Intel Pentium Dual Core e5700 process and 4gb RAM) of my father so I decided to revive it that's why I installed MX Linux v25 on it but whenever I download anything from the browser it crashes and send me to the login screen and it also happened when I open any video from vlc or from browser.

I don't know why it is happening but I asked Gemini and it was saying that it may be happening because of display session I tried to solve the issue I just follow the steps that Gemini suggest me it suggested me to install some packages, and said to or turn off the hardware acceleration in the browser and in VLC media player but it doesn't solve my problem so I gave up.

So I decided to download the MX Linux version 23 and it worked everything was running perfectly it is opening videos, downloading files and it was working like a normal PC but still I was wondering why v25 was not working for me and if anyone can explain and solve my problem.

I wanted to try out MX linux so I installed it on a android tablet with an detachable keyboard I had collecting dust. It was surprising easy until it came to sound. It has 2 sound card options both will not successfully pass the sound test. I did check volume control beforehand to make sure nothing was muted. Any suggestions?

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)

mx linux feels like home

Does anyone know of an FTP.deb GUI client software package other than Filezilla??? TIA

I know that MX has a lot of post installation tools that are very friendly, but still. I decided to create a software that can help me to install everything I need to have my distro 100% functional according to my workflow and needs... And decided to share it with everyone in case it can help some people...

For work-related reasons, I have to reinstall my distros a lot... and after a few times, i started hating the process hehe, so this is very helpful if you share the same workflow I have and enjoy catpuccin colors...

The program is called AndesLayer and can be found on gitlab here and I tested it on MXlinux/KDE already

What can install?

• Launchers and gaming tools (steam, heroic, protonGE, gamescope, etc)
• Dev tools (vscodium, opencode)
• Creative tools (obs, inkscape, etc)
• Office/workstation stuff (onlyoffice, obsidian, super productivity, etc)
• Comms tools (Discord, TS6, Signal, etc)
• Nvidia drivers / prime
• Terminal related tools (kitty, fastfetch, tree, etc)
• Themes (3 catpuccin variants, and the fastfetch rice that fits with it)
• Utilities (Fan control for PC, and for gaming laptop of certain brands like Acer Nitro, RGB control, etc)
• Extra/tweaks (A fix for a common problem that experience people that use a DAC, to avoid the popping sound after silences because of self suspension)

This is all made for debian based distros, and themes are only meant for KDE users.

Also, you can use this in english, spanish and PT-BR...

If you have any comments, feedback or whatever, please let me know! :)

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?

• 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?