MS Linux 21 setup and demonstration, including the three available desktop environments (Xfce, KDE and Fluxbox). You can learn more about and download MX Linux at: https://mxlinux.org/
My video 'Linux Survival Guide #3: GPU Drivers & Printing' which I refer to is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lah9rMX1FnI
You may also be interested in my reviews of other Linux distros, including:
Linux Mint 20:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_ZAH7LWl-o
Ubuntu 20.04:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBCE-ZH_xLA
Zorin OS 16:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTMBFtl_xs4
More videos on computing and related topics can be found at http://www.youtube.com/explainingcomputers
You may also like my ExplainingTheFuture channel at: http://www.youtube.com/explainingthefuture
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:47 Versions & Download
02:41 Installation
04:54 Tour
09:15 Applications
12:50 KDE & Fluxbox
16:22 Conclusions
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Needs a serious rebrand. shite name and really crap design of their identity.
@RonaldGonzalez-l9h Says:
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@TheGospelGuitarist Says:
Checking out MX Linux KDE version on my laptop on which a lot of Linux versions do not find all my hardware. This found everything on the system. Runs fast on my 2009 Acer 5920 Intel Core Duo with 4 gig. Love the options and control I see on the system. Running Linux LMDE 6 on my dual boot desktop which I like as well. Looks like I may be switching up to the MX Linux soon. I've tried AV MX Linux on my laptop but hate the UI. It was fast so I thought I'd try MX Linux. I'm new to Linux as being a daily driver, so as a creator I want one that finds my hardware. I have an Avid Eleven Rack for audio and have had no lick on using it with Linux yet. I may have to use Wine for that.
@maksymkyryliuk492 Says:
Not very beautiful distro, in my opinion🙄
Why it is on the first place?
@allenellisdewitt Says:
12:50 THANK YOU for exploring the other spins, it's so easy to see reviews/examinations of distros that don't do that, thanks!
@DevotedGamer1 Says:
he new look Linux MX is amazing, it's time to switch. Love the performance and UI
@juwon1234 Says:
What do you think of Big Linux and can you do a test on it. Thanks
@mihailvormittag6211 Says:
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@tbirdtelecaster7481 Says:
I have been running MX23 beta 2 and it is brilliant, no bugs and i installed a cinnamon desktop without conflict, the debian 12 base works real good with it. Thoroughly recommend
@rickycastro3210 Says:
Does the MX mean that its made in Mexico? LOL.
@toddpark2893 Says:
This is a great channel. Thank you. I have a stand alone brother document scanner ADS-2200 connected with a USB cable however it is not picked-up by MX Linux 21. If anyone has any tips I would be most grateful 😊
@bsdslacker Says:
MX Linux... deceived. Terrible installer experience for the latest, had to download 21 Wild Flowers for the installer to let me install Grub. The user experience is really bad, clicking using the touchpad is quite hard after experiencing really smooth behavior with PopOS. I think I have to be more cautious with expectations. Looking at Fedora 38 now, have distro hopped from Zorin, MX, back to PopOS. I don´t mind since nowadays, downloads take a few minutes and creating the USB bootable device is easy as hell. Did this channel have a Fedora review? Looking for it.
@bsdslacker Says:
The USB installer got stuck at 44% while watching this video 🤣, ain't that a blast. Is the option to install directly instead of waiting for MX to load and then install?
The installer also didn't show me the option to install GRUB unless I hit Abort and then for some reason it showed up. Another difference is that my installer checked the media before showing the installer options, and that was always successful even though later steps failed.
@s-nooze Says:
Engagement
@Galaxia53 Says:
Just looking at this distro and its installation process makes me wonder why it's the most popular one. The second highest one EndeavorOS looks like an OS I can understand why people like it. But this one looks strange, ugly and not very user friendly.
@doctorsocrates4413 Says:
As good as the mx snapshot functionality may be i find it rather impractical depending on the size of your installed apps etc and can be very time consuming to restore a snapshot...I always find it much quicker to simply reinstall the operating system..i copy my firefox profile and also the usr/share/themes and icons folders and i can pretty much get back to where i was sooner.
@snsm6730 Says:
MX21 is a great distro for desktop and runs very well also on the older gizmos. I have this running on a
compact HP laptop with a duo core Celeron CPU and just 4 gigs of ram. The versatility is VERY important
as many of us are now enjoying that new economy and its 20-23% unemployment and 15% real level of
inflation these days. Not an affordable option to now just toss PC's because they cannot run Windows11 !!
@HaveFaithInGod Says:
Perhaps I risk wearing out my welcome but please forgive what should be a final inquiry. I had the idea of putting my new SSD into an old laptop that I now run linux on. It is so easy to open and remove the SSD that's in there. If I do that and install the MX-21 distro to it from the USB installation stick drive I've made, can I then take the SSD back out of the laptop and put it into the USB adaptor I bought with it and now be able to boot MX-21 linux to my more powerful desktop machine via USB? I hoping it will not somehow think it's still joined to the laptop and the settings will be all messed up ie graphics, memory , etc. Other wise I will have to tackle uncasing my huge Dell desktop machine cables and all, yuck. Thanks.
@HaveFaithInGod Says:
When installing can it work to install to an external SSD plugged into an different USB port ? Meaning an install from the USB stick to a USB drive. Or even setting up the install program onto the USB SSD and installing it TO that same SSD? Finally, will it run efficiently from a USB connected SSD? I could then set my BIOS to boot from USB when connected otherwise it will go ahead and boot to Windows on the internal drive. This is my hope at least. Thank you for a most informative and entertaining video. You do a great job in a most "British" way. I'm a Kentucky American.
@ريمولفقر Says:
tnx
@technoWZ5598 Says:
Linux Mint is by far the best distro, although Ubuntu has to be 2nd best. MX Linux is rather interesting to me, because I have not used it much before, and I know it's becoming very popular, maybe I should check it out. Great video by the way! 👍
@jaronensley Says:
I really wish there was an Arch based MX Linux.
@59.9fps Says:
MX is running great on my 14 year old Core2 Duo system (typing this comment from there). Ran out of the box without any tweaks on the Legacy MBR system dual booted with Windows 7 (I wanted a Linux OS for safe internet browsing and would use 7 only offline for games), installed old 470.xx drivers for GTX 970 instead of newer (and not necessarily greater for old hardware), has recognized old G31 motherboard audio and network, and takes about 650 megs out of 4 GB RAM by itself. Till now with Firefox and 5-7 tabs has not risen above 70% of RAM usage.
The team behind this distro seem to actually test what they put out, unlike several other popular Linux distros which did not work out of the box on this system. It is commendable how this distro has been #1 for so long and at the same time supporting a wide spectrum of hardware. So many tweaks specific to MX bring out the passion the team has for their work.
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@davidwayne9982 Says:
MX works great-- it's so simple even an OLD (66) FAT ONE EYED HILLBILLY (LIKE ME) CAN USE IT!!! HA. AND LIKE YOU SAID- i'VE USED IT A lot -FOR EXTENDED TIME AND HAVE not MANAGED TO CRASH IT ONCE!!!
@davidwayne9982 Says:
21.3 is out now- and have even MORE good stuff-- and is smoothed up even more-- works GREAT!!!!!
@davidwayne9982 Says:
TOOLS?? YES- tons- and all work great-- to maintain the system- or recover dead ones-- including OTHER systems..... they have every kind of tool except a plunger for the toilet!!!
@davidwayne9982 Says:
The conky is totally customizable in KDE-- and you can change THAT or anything else-- anywhere--- OR just turn it off..
@davidwayne9982 Says:
I commented below-- but I want to add that-- every time i use MX or an update-- I find WONDERFUL things I can do with it that I never knew existed-- it just gets BETTER all the time- and is SO powerful!!!! it's alway picked up my older equipment automatically- without fooling with anything-- and I've tried them all-- XFCE looks good- and is very FAST- but i don't like it-- because I'm NOT fond of XFCE look and manner---- I'm a KDE user forever -- at least as long as kde stays as good as it is.
@davidwayne9982 Says:
MX is pretty much the BEST linux distro right now-- has been for a while. - It's LIGHT weight to be so powerful- had useful tools for recovery of mucked up systems- and is totally customizable... I've had LOTS of distros the last 4 years or so-- and always come back to MX.. Right now I'm running SPARKY-- it's simple- very lean- fast and dependable (debian based too- and kde) but I keep MX around for back up and use it for serious stuff!!!!
@doctorsocrates4413 Says:
I have linux mint installed on my internal ssd drive.Can this be installed on to an external HDD.?..I don't like dual booting and i sooner give an operating system all of the chosen drive...
@drjubierre Says:
What I did not get was why is this distro so popular. What makes it "better"...
@MrTom-Songwriter-Composer Says:
@ExplainingComputers Another great video Chris. As I have unfortunately contracted the dreaded COVID virus right before Christmas, I have been resting and trying to recover.. So I came across your video on MX Linux. Two things of interest on MX Linux. Some of the team members were apart of MEPIS, a very old distro' and group that I remember going WAY back in the day. The very awesome thing is, after I saw your video and then found out more about this the MX Linux Dev team, I even more interested as they have a 32 bit version of MX Linux with Fluxbox as the GUI. Fluxbox is also a lighter "Windows Manager" from many years back. I was able to install this MX Linux version on a very old laptop that had a 32bit CPU and a problematic video card and it installed quickly I'm using it right now. It uses Debian 11 for it repositories, and so far on this old laptop it's been really wonderful. I do like Linux Mint and also plain Debian as well but the MX Linux dev team put together a really fine distro'. Probably the last thing to add (as I know I'm rambling a bit) is it really refreshing to see a Dev' group that wants to support 32 bit CPU architecture.. there is a lot of system still out there and being able to repurpose old systems like this laptop is just plain excellent on many levels. Happy New Year, cheers. - MrTom
@cantdance3077 Says:
Got a Brother printer for Christmas and I was having issues on Arch and Manjaro getting it to work. MX Linux recognized it immediately, making my life a lot easier
@cantdance3077 Says:
Love MX. Tried XFCE but it kept crashing. Using kde Plasma and it works amazingly.
@snoopstp4189 Says:
I know I'm up at night WORRIED sick about Chris roaming the streets causing trouble.. anyway been using MX for well over a year now, on my pocket laptop, and it runs fine, afaik it's been number 1 on distrowatch all this time.
@SneakXL Says:
Could you maybe make a video comparing MX Linux to Zorin and explain which might be better for someone switching from a Windows 10 PC?
@zamSEG Says:
hello sir, could i install this os on usb or removable drive? i don't want to dualboot with windows. if it can be done could you make a tutorial video about it? thank you and have a nice day sir.
@Afriqueleblanq Says:
I have been using Linux from around 2006 now and passed through the Ubuntu's to the Arch's. The latter will always fail, after some time had passed, when updates break them. I defaulted to Mint Cinnamon as everything always just works, never a nasty surprise and I can get my work done. I am not a Linux hobbyist like so many- there is life beyond computers. I must say, that my current 2007 Acer Travelmate 6410 with a retarded Celeron CPU with 2 cores and just 2GB RAM, works rather well after I installed MX Xfce 32-bit, as the laptop is too old for 64-bit. I can do office work, manage email and Whatsapp, that's what I need it to do. It updates automatically and never failed me. Someone else is using my much newer i7-QM with 2GB Geforce GPU and 8GB RAM, also 250GB SSD. The Acer laptop here only has a very slow 160GB HDD but it does what it needs to. We even play some basic games on it, such as chess.
@therealjackfisher Says:
I wonder what linux distro is the best to run from usb without creating a boot loader. I need one safe to use OS for crypto and banking, and my windows installed on ssd is not something I consider a safe choice.
@dinozaurpickupline4221 Says:
would repos work with mx 17.1? older hardware user here
@vijishaaashil8250 Says:
loved the video! solved almost all my querys...
thanks man😃
@stephendoherty8291 Says:
Can you run different interfaces from XDE to Fluxbox within the same distro or do you have to install it all over again
@dee23gaming Says:
I wish I used MX Linux as a newbie from the start. Much more stable and user friendly than Ubuntu. It even sounds cooler than Ubuntu.
@СергейД-ч4ь Says:
For me XFCE option looks a bit dated. But KDE is really polished and brilliant!!!
@billywild5440 Says:
I am disappointed MX got away from Synaptic. They seem to be adding a lot of little utilities (or whatever they should be called). I hope they can continue to improve their great product without adding complexity. Although I don't think it is their intent to make MX a beginners distro. Surely the PC is now powerful enough to make a distro easier as well as better. Just my beginner thoughts.
@davidruzzo5806 Says:
Hey Christopher, I've got a problem with Linux Mint 20.3 that I cannot get a straight answer for. Perhaps you can be of assistance? When I pull up a terminal I type in "sudo su" and type in my password. This logs me on as root. I then type "sudo apt install mintupgrade". I then type in "sudo mintupgrade". I get the prompt to upgrade to Linux Mint 21. I click "OK" and the system does its checks, but it keeps coming back with the error "some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead", and it will not complete the download to upgrade. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to help me find out why this is so and help me correct it. Like I said, I cannot find help anywhere!
@L1vR-1948 Says:
👍 Thanks :-) 💻
@Tesirapa Says:
MX Linux is what started my linux adventure, because it was the only fully compatible distribution working out of the box on my computer.
However I can't really say I liked this distribution, I see all these preinstalled tools as "bloatwares", it's based on Debian which is a LTS distro (which is fine for servers), and I never really liked KDE and XFCE too (and I hate fluxbox).
But honestly I'm just not the target of this distribution. I can see why it's in the first position on distrowatch, it's really beginner friendly, and all those "bloatware tools" can actually be very useful :)
@AJ-po6up Says:
As always your videos are so relaxing and informative and the best part is that I always learn something new, I'm glad you created this channel you've been doing a great service for the community and for Linux, Chris!
@phuchu Says:
I had problems with MX Linux in the past. I've really come to respect Manjaro Xfce though.
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