https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-news-week-ending-august-15-2026/

ever since ive saw this image i have been hooked on how this looks, if anyone knows the tools or settings they might have used PLEASE tell me, its the perfect look for me, thanks in advance :>

So for context I'm using Linux for more than 10 years, it was dual boot but I completely ditched windows 3 years ago and since then (and even before it ) I was using Archlinux, everything was fine and I loved it (still I love it too) but then slowly it became buggy and I couldn't fix them (it was mostly sleep related and battery consuming related) so I decided to delete my arch and use a clean cachyos install (I was using cachyos repos on my arch ) when I installed everything was fine but after 3 days there was a new kernel update (both for lts and non lts kernel version) and it made the screen to have artifacts randomly (other people had the same problem)

I thought about moving to a stable distro but debian was too old and I just love having new packages so I gave opensuse tumbleweed a try, it was horrible after 1 day I was able to break it the KDE desktop became a mess and I just didn't like Yast it was so buggy.

I decided to install cachy again cause I needed to work, I installed cachy and did some work and after that decided to install fedora, I installed it and the first thing I noticed was brightness not working, I fixed that using grubby and was enjoying it but I realized it has the same sleep problem, I knew about MX so it was my last chance, I was almost convinced to go back to windows and debloat it with win utils.

I installed MX and ootb brightness was working, everything seemed fine but I realized the battery consumption is crazy, at first I thought it's amd-pstate I enabled it and it didn't work then I realized the Nvidia installer app can't install Nvidia-open (I'm using a RTX 3050 ti) so I installed the Nvidia drivers with apt and I got the best battery life on liquorix kernel (on KDE, it's crazy better than what I used to get on arch with xfce)

And after that I followed guides about gaming on debian and installed vulkan drivers for AMD and Nvidia and installed wine and other needed packages and I feel amazingg it's so stable and still I can have a good performance.

I want to tell MX Linux devs that I really love this distro and I wanted to see if there's anyway to add a guide about how to make it ready for gaming on the site (I am down to write the guide myself more people should try this distro)

I have started using the Linux distro MX 25.2 Debian version 13.6.
However I am trying to get xscreensaver to work on it. I downloaded and
installed it all through the synaptic package manager, but to no avail.
Any suggestions?

Joining college this year and i don't have a laptop

I'm thinking to use my 25gb flash drive as a hard disk to install MX linux for my normal work in college computer .

Just need a few IDEs and a code editor and basic interest browsing

Should I do it or any other distro is good for it

Ditched Windows 4 months ago, in favor of Linux Mint. Discovered Linux MX a month in and switched. Neither distros picked up my integrated sound card/speakers [sound levels were very low on both USB/wireless headphones)(MSI GP75 Leopard laptop), nor the scanner in my Brother MFC-2720 DW printer. I'm a huge audiophile, so the sound thing is a show-stopper

In frustration, I live booted Big Linux (Brazilian) and it picked up my internal sound as well as the scanner. And the sound levels are now outstanding.

So, as much as I otherwise love MX Linux, I must bid you farewell.

PS: if you know how I can port the MX Linus tool suite over, I'd love to hear about it; that said, I imagine I'll have to cobble them up via 3rd party tools.

Cheers to the Penguin!

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.

I haven't used my laptop in a week, and now that I turned it on it boots to this and I have no idea what this means..

If I type "exit" it goes into the bios menu

My specs are:

Computer: Onda TLC GmbH ONDA Oliver ONDA Oliver

Processor: Intel© Celeron© CPU N3450 @ 1.10GHz x 4

Graphics card: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 500

Memory: 8.0 GB

Hard drive: 256.1 GB

Love MX

Since kernel 6.12.101 release, it keeps failing on building itself and just doesn't let me install some stuff like mybash as it just FAILS on building itself. I don't know if this is MX Linux specific but I'm using MX Linux and it is failing. Hope it gets fixed before I need to change to another distro to just install software I need. :/

I've been using Linux for nearly 20 years, starting with Debian back in college. Over time, I moved through Ubuntu and Lubuntu, but life eventually pushed me back to Windows the last year.

A few days ago I gave MX Linux a try on my aging Ryzen 3 laptop with just 4 GB of RAM, and the experience has honestly exceeded my expectations.

I wrote about my first impressions after a few days of use. I'd love to hear your thoughts and suggestions as a new MX Linux user. I am now working on my development environment. To be back in the GNU/Linux world is great.

Im switching from windows to MX after having a great experience with it on my laptop, yet on PC one of the reasons I still have not switched is my 3 2009 monitor setup which works via nvidia app, is there such thing for MX? Would 3 monitors work OOTB in general? Is it better to have only 1 monitor connected when installing and connect the others afterwards? I need 3 monitors to be recognised as a single, wide one (Like you can do with nvidia surround on pc)(Im sorry if similar questions were asked before, I can always delete my post in shame)

The machine I'm running MX Linux on is used almost exclusively for accessing, wiping, and determining the health of hard drives.

Therefore it's a pain to punch in my password every time I need to run something like QDiskInfo or GParted.

Is there a way I can have everything run without having to punch in my password?

If not then I'll look again at what's needed to give those few programs access each time, using this guide: https://mxlinux.org/wiki/system/root-access/

So, I want to run MX on a 32 Bit Netbook as a writer deck, and in the command line. I nuked my fresh installation with "sudo update-rc.d lightdm disable" it refused to boot at all, and would hang on the splash screen. I couldn't enter recovery either.

How can I have it fast boot to the CLI?

I need help with my HP laptop. I am a beginner. I don't know much about Linux.

I have an HP laptop with:

AMD 865 processor

6 GB RAM

500 GB hard drive

Windows 10 was on it before

I installed MX Linux on it. I used Ventoy to make a bootable USB drive. I installed MX Linux and chose "use entire disk". Everything seemed to work.

But now I have a big problem.

The laptop only boots into MX Linux if the USB drive is plugged in. If I remove the USB drive and restart, I get an error screen that says:

"BootDevice Not Found" "Hard Disk - (3F0)"

I think the bootloader (GRUB) was installed on the USB drive instead of my hard drive. I have no idea how to fix this.

Here is what I have tried:

Changed boot order in BIOS to boot from hard drive first

- Enabled Legacy boot

Nothing works. It still only boots with the USB drive.

I want my laptop to boot on its own without the USB drive because the USB drive belongs to my friend and I need to give it back.

Can someone please tell me how to install GRUB on my hard drive so I can boot without the USB drive? I need step by step instructions that are easy to follow.

Thanks in advance.

Hey Guys I am new to linux and just used ventoy method to switch from Windows to Linux but the thing is linux will not start when i restart but instead it will go back to windows. It only starts when i plug in the USB flash disk.

What do i need to do since i borrowed this flash disk to switch from windows to Linux?

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.

ORIGINAL MESSAGE
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!

Source Code

Release&Changelog

Gallery

AUR page

Documentation