MX Linux 18 -Continuum- - Taking It For A Quick Spin DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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zinger919
A couple tools you glanced over I find REALLY useful are MX snapshot & Live USB Maker. It typically takes me the better part of a day to get everything set to my liking on a new install. Once you have an MX distro thus tweaked, you run snapshot to create a distributable iso with all your tweaks (including all the non default installed pkgs. Live usb maker can easily put this iso on a bootable jump drive which you can use in lieu of a standard distro to -clone- to other machines. I've used it just once, but I'll never upgrade again without it. The iso is a -live- image with the -install- button included. Once installed all my tweaks/installed pkgs are there, ready to go. The only thing I had to edit was the /etc/hosts (mvps, thank you) & hostname file. A real timesaver if you upgrade several machines or want to save your numerous tweaks.
Great review, but you might also mention that the M in MX is for Mepis. Mepis was the 'buntu killer for me - a sad day when it went dormant. Equally joyous though, when I discovered MX. I have it on everything from a Pentium 4 to a quad core Phenom. It runs a 14 yr old Thinkpad T42 (so old the pentium-m doesn't even advertise that it IS PAE) beautifully! I love it.
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A couple tools you glanced over I find REALLY useful are MX snapshot & Live USB Maker. It typically takes me the better part of a day to get everything set to my liking on a new install. Once you have an MX distro thus tweaked, you run snapshot to create a distributable iso with all your tweaks (including all the non default installed pkgs. Live usb maker can easily put this iso on a bootable jump drive which you can use in lieu of a standard distro to -clone- to other machines. I've used it just once, but I'll never upgrade again without it. The iso is a -live- image with the -install- button included. Once installed all my tweaks/installed pkgs are there, ready to go. The only thing I had to edit was the /etc/hosts (mvps, thank you) & hostname file. A real timesaver if you upgrade several machines or want to save your numerous tweaks.
Great review, but you might also mention that the M in MX is for Mepis. Mepis was the 'buntu killer for me - a sad day when it went dormant. Equally joyous though, when I discovered MX. I have it on everything from a Pentium 4 to a quad core Phenom. It runs a 14 yr old Thinkpad T42 (so old the pentium-m doesn't even advertise that it IS PAE) beautifully! I love it.
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-wiat
Few hours ago I do SujiX 19. 1 (it's fork MX18 with many good preinstalled software ) review on real hardware and on livecd WiFi works perfect ( tp link 7222n v2 Realtek ) but after reboot net is gone: ) there's empty space, where device should be in lsusb, but in -ip a- wlan0 is visible but down and the best. Network Manager see Wi-Fi net list but can't connect: ) proably kernel mods aren't loaded or blacklisted. I just install it for review not normal daily usage but -nice- too see that I'm not only one: ) Second issue - rx570 is visible in system as rx 470/480. kernel 4. 19. so proably MX has some bugs or kernel issue. Btw. Thanks for another good video!
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Few hours ago I do SujiX 19. 1 (it's fork MX18 with many good preinstalled software ) review on real hardware and on livecd WiFi works perfect ( tp link 7222n v2 Realtek ) but after reboot net is gone: ) there's empty space, where device should be in lsusb, but in -ip a- wlan0 is visible but down and the best. Network Manager see Wi-Fi net list but can't connect: ) proably kernel mods aren't loaded or blacklisted. I just install it for review not normal daily usage but -nice- too see that I'm not only one: ) Second issue - rx570 is visible in system as rx 470/480. kernel 4. 19. so proably MX has some bugs or kernel issue. Btw. Thanks for another good video!
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TSM
On my Pc, the -only- linux distro, among many, that will not properly 'Size- windows. In particular, Firefox or Chrome. Vlc, there are others. the lower half disappears behind the taskbar. Re-size, should not be necessary, next time, same issue. I triple boot. Linux Lite 4. 2, Fine, Peppermint 9, Fine. I had the same issue on MX17. Plus Mx 18 dropped the ball on 8811au usb support. None. Xubuntu, Ubuntu, Lite, Kubuntu, etc. It is in driver manager or synaptic. Not so with mx 18. BTW, I had to dick around with rt 8192cu driver after install, worked fine live. MX18 sucks IMO. Btw, my pc is no great piece, but it is only 4 years old.
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On my Pc, the -only- linux distro, among many, that will not properly 'Size- windows. In particular, Firefox or Chrome. Vlc, there are others. the lower half disappears behind the taskbar. Re-size, should not be necessary, next time, same issue. I triple boot. Linux Lite 4. 2, Fine, Peppermint 9, Fine. I had the same issue on MX17. Plus Mx 18 dropped the ball on 8811au usb support. None. Xubuntu, Ubuntu, Lite, Kubuntu, etc. It is in driver manager or synaptic. Not so with mx 18. BTW, I had to dick around with rt 8192cu driver after install, worked fine live. MX18 sucks IMO. Btw, my pc is no great piece, but it is only 4 years old.
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Oscar
So i folliwed you and i installed mx. i was very excited and happy with it so far. But. i yried to install cinelerra gg for video editing yesterday. Could not for the life of me get it to open up. Any ideas? On the cinelerra site all the way down at the bottom, supposedly select single user compilation file and then you are prompted with a list of distributions. A couple of those choices include debian 8 and 9. Im very confused and frustrated. Any ideas?
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So i folliwed you and i installed mx. i was very excited and happy with it so far. But. i yried to install cinelerra gg for video editing yesterday. Could not for the life of me get it to open up. Any ideas? On the cinelerra site all the way down at the bottom, supposedly select single user compilation file and then you are prompted with a list of distributions. A couple of those choices include debian 8 and 9. Im very confused and frustrated. Any ideas?
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Norbert
I stay with Linux mint cinnamon desktop. Eye and candy, easy to use. I don't really want to use any light weight desktop manager on 16gigs core I 5 pc, not a big deal. I used to use mepis Linux on my desktop around 10 years ago (Just because it based on mepis and. I was very happy with that, it was a really fast distraction. Anyway, I really like this video, maybe I try this distro on a laptop soon.
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I stay with Linux mint cinnamon desktop. Eye and candy, easy to use. I don't really want to use any light weight desktop manager on 16gigs core I 5 pc, not a big deal. I used to use mepis Linux on my desktop around 10 years ago (Just because it based on mepis and. I was very happy with that, it was a really fast distraction. Anyway, I really like this video, maybe I try this distro on a laptop soon.
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Chau
I started using MX Linux because this video 'sold' me on it. I now use it a few hours nearly every day. Another OS I'd like to try is IprediaOS, but it's too difficult to figure out. I would like to use it in LiveCD mode like TAILS. Any chance you could do a review/tutorial on it, and maybe focus on a step-by-step how to get it setup and connected to the I2P? Thanks for getting me to try MX Linux!
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I started using MX Linux because this video 'sold' me on it. I now use it a few hours nearly every day. Another OS I'd like to try is IprediaOS, but it's too difficult to figure out. I would like to use it in LiveCD mode like TAILS. Any chance you could do a review/tutorial on it, and maybe focus on a step-by-step how to get it setup and connected to the I2P? Thanks for getting me to try MX Linux!
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kookoon
I had started back then with Mandriva and Ubuntu 8 and most of my hardware wasn't detected so I kinda gave up on Linux.
I tried again this time with MX Linux mainly because had XFCE. I was surprised when everything worked out of the box.
I don't use it anymore but I still use Linux and have to thank MX Linux for that.
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I had started back then with Mandriva and Ubuntu 8 and most of my hardware wasn't detected so I kinda gave up on Linux.
I tried again this time with MX Linux mainly because had XFCE. I was surprised when everything worked out of the box.
I don't use it anymore but I still use Linux and have to thank MX Linux for that.
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Phil
I've used a number of distros over 20+ years and MX is now my favourite, running flawlessly on 5 laptops, the oldest of which dates back to 2006. Annoyingly, it won't run on my new Dell Inspiron, but Ubuntu Mate does the job. I'm now Windows free! FYI it's -et cetera- (-and the rest-) and not -eksetera-.
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I've used a number of distros over 20+ years and MX is now my favourite, running flawlessly on 5 laptops, the oldest of which dates back to 2006. Annoyingly, it won't run on my new Dell Inspiron, but Ubuntu Mate does the job. I'm now Windows free! FYI it's -et cetera- (-and the rest-) and not -eksetera-.
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Yu
hello thankyou, i'm trying to use systemclt in mx linux, but it doesn'
seem to work, it says -sytem has not been booted with systemd as init
system (PID 1. Can't operate. Failed to connect to bus: Host is down. -
Any idea how to fix this? thankyou for your help
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hello thankyou, i'm trying to use systemclt in mx linux, but it doesn'
seem to work, it says -sytem has not been booted with systemd as init
system (PID 1. Can't operate. Failed to connect to bus: Host is down. -
Any idea how to fix this? thankyou for your help
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Yu
hello thankyou, i'm trying to use systemclt in mx linux, but it doesn'
seem to work, it says -sytem has not been booted with systemd as init
system (PID 1. Can't operate. Failed to connect to bus: Host is down. -
Any idea how to fix this? thankyou for your help
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hello thankyou, i'm trying to use systemclt in mx linux, but it doesn'
seem to work, it says -sytem has not been booted with systemd as init
system (PID 1. Can't operate. Failed to connect to bus: Host is down. -
Any idea how to fix this? thankyou for your help
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