MX-Linux Reviews

Wanted to try linux after some time on a shared PC, piece of crap decided to wipe 2 drives and install itself there... Made my parents consider a divorce, can't recommend. Never using linux in my life again.

Absolute top notch Linux. Brill on the Pi4 and Pi5 Old windows systems should all run this release of Linux One of the best i have ever came across for presentation, looks and functionality. Bye bye Windows. Hello MX.

Really well done y'all! The amount of work that went into things like MX Tweak must have been gargantuan, and it shows. Beautiful and very complete OS, very inspirational too for people like me who love to tinker. Easy 5 stars.

Absolutely the best Debian based distro. The MX tools are A+++ and is what sets it apart from the others.

no provision to setup an internet connection to my tplink .

The most complete Linux operating system to date, it has extra software but there is no problem with that, it only uninstalls what is not used, it is fast, intuitive, and the best performance in most of the computers that I have installed it on, it needs to improve the virtualization so that it remains stable and does not need to use dual boot for cases where Windows is needed, although for the essentials of a virtual machine Windows works perfectly as long as additional graphics are not required, such as games or design software, unlike other Debian-based distros and the Ubuntu repo, it does not require so much console use for novice users, excellent for Windows migration, in my environment I installed it and from children to adults they use it as a smartphone, simply great to date, I hope the developers do not lose their way, thanks for this project, hopefully it unifies GNU-LINux and strengthens desktop use.

They do not want to answer questions regarding updates. Example several updates have translation or modification to translation for mx-apps yet Debian provides translations and system locales handles different languages. Several unneeded applications and duplicated applications like backup software timeshift and luckybackup. Its based on Debian so when you Debian goes to a new version you must reinstall the Mx-linux to the new version unlike Debian which allows a simple upgrade. This leaves you with outdated software such as Ghostscript if you are still on 23.1 which has a CVE-2023-36664.

Thank you so much for a great release of the best operating system in the world!

Thus far, MX Linux is the only Pi 4 distro I've found capable of bit-perfect audio playback, INCLUDING in videos. Such playback requires killing Pulseaudio. After doing so, Raspbian works fine for Kodi, allowing HDMI pass-through. But Quodlibet errors out trying to play through ALSA. Ubuntu Mate does the opposite. Kodi won't allow pass-through. But Quodlibet generates no errors, and my receiver "appears" to be playing multi-channel PCM. Albeit there's no actual sound. It should be noted the aplay -l command in Raspbian shows headphones with 4 subdevices, but HDMI only 1. Ubuntu Mate shows HDMI with 4 subdevices, but only 1 for headphones. MX Linux shows 4 subdevices for both HDMI, and headphones. It should also be noted I use Quodlibet specifically to play classical music. The waveform seekbar plugin tells me when it's about to go from very quiet to very loud.

Thank you very much for this excellent MX-Linux creation. This system combines the stability of Debian with the flexibility of Puppy Linux. I found it so useful, that I created a USB Installation Image for the sake of my Open Source Project Users and uploaded it here : sourceforge.net/projects/custom-mx-linux-image-for-usb/

While many distros claim to be user friendly and/or suitable for beginners, MX Linux is streets ahead in both departments. It has many MX specific tools that just don't exist in other distros - including the over hyped (don't make me say the U word) one ! From the basic but very useful MX cleanup, through to MX Snapshot which allows you to make a bootable ISO of your current system, either as a personal backup with all your details or as a custom copy to give to friends, it really does go the extra mile. I've been using it as my daily driver for a long while now, but as an almost cured distroholic, I do try others on my spare machines and find all of them lacking in one way or another compared to MX. I only have one small complaint, stop setting the default taskbar to the side, it's silly, but luckily is easily fixed with MX tweak.

I truly do not know why I distro surf so much. I always seem to be looking for that green grass across the fence! When every thing you need is right here! I've been using Linux for the past 10 years, I think at times I've tried them all, been using Mx-linux on and off for the past 4 years and it is always my go "back to OS". Whether it is the ease of installation or the tools above the Debian Stable Base, you really don't need anything else! I have in my mind I need an enterprise os, it could not be farther from the truth. If you are a new linux user and you use a debian base, why not use MX-Linux. Once you learn how to backup your home folder, saving all your documents etc to a spare partition or external storage and how to backup your~ /.config/xfce4 folder for your xfce personal setup or use the mx-linux way, you are well on your way to learning how things work. And you can take a snapshot of your whole operating sytem with mx-snapshot, if you have to replace a damaged set-up. The defalt xfce os is a little on the heavy side compaired to other OS'S but not that bad to really mention. the whole OS is a pleasure to come back to compaired to some others. I just cant say enough good things about MX-Linux!!!!!

Excellent, It no longer looks like it came from windows 3 i have been running it from the live environment and so far smooth as silk. with no problems found.

Several issues. It isnt Uboontoon, It doesn't default to SnapCrap. It's 100% reliable. Other than that, I think it's pretty decent ;-) I run it on an ssd next to it's unidentical twin. Antix (in beta now). My other ssd is an herbalist adventure, also purist stuff. LMDE4 along side Sparky PoTolo 6 LXQt rolling. Playing with drive three-machine three today. Beta Parrot OS MATE/Home. BTW I don't use Arch

Adding beauty and user friendliness to the power of Linux. Great work !!!

It just works and never breaks. Its my swiss army knife, with many unique utilities it's live boot has the ability to detect lost grub and bootloader files, very handy when things go wrong. one click to install different desktops is a nice option too.

I tried 40 distros when I launched from Win7 to Linux, and kept coming back to MXLinux. It works on all 8 of my desktops and laptops, solidly. Now the KDE version has finally stopped me from EVER going back to the dark side of Microsoft Corporate. EXQUISITE WORK, People! I have not had a single lockup and am on my computer an average of 9 hours a day. I love all the cool MX tools. I also tried AntiX, but once KDE MX came out I am just too enthralled to ever try another distro. Thank-you for merging the minds of MEPIS/AntiX and MX! I cannot think of a better distribution that is so capable and easy to use, and just plain gorgeous and ENJOYABLE to use!

I had a very old laptop: hp6720s with ram of 3Gb and a rom of 120 Gb where there was windows vista and in 2015 who help us with pc's of my school said that it wasn't possible to update to windows 2007 so when I took this laptop they had already decided to put it in the garbage. I read various articles about linux distros. Various distro looks like good but some of them didn't recognize wireless port of my laptop. Finally I discovered puppy linux. Bionicpup was my first distro but when I read an article about mxlinux I tried it and I think is really a beautiful os. Now my laptop is fast and easy to use and there are a lot of useful and also beautiful application. If someone now will propose to me to come back to windows I'm sure I will choose to stay with mxlinux os. Thank you very much to the Developers of this OS. I'm Italian and I don't speak english very well so I'm sorry for my very poor english Greetings from Mariagrazia from Italy

MX-Linux is quite a well known Linux distro nowadays. It features a modified XFCE desktop environment and quite a few useful tools have been developed by the team and included in this distro to make it convenient for users to customize their systems. Resource consumption is pretty low compared to the big distros and consequently a moderately specced system responds very smoothly and a laptop battery charge provides a good working period of around 4 hours with moderate usage. I think this is a distro worth trying out and can easily be used for daily usage.

A very stable and functional operating system that I have installed on 2 lenovo laptops and now a hp desktop. Works flawlessly and quickly and with one of the laptops being many years old has restored that to being a useful machine. Great work guys......

Excellent !

well done guys

Convenient, very reliable and stable OS. Special admiration: 1. mx-bootrepair - Boot Loader Recovery (Advanced BootRepair) "out of Box" 2. mx-snapshot - create a copy of the OS and the ISO image (out of the box). There are problems with CUPS (setting up old Epson printers).

it's perfect

Installs and runs great even on a "centuries old" (32 bit, Pentium 4, 3GB RAM) system. 0 system or driver issues so far, even having an ATI/AMD Radeon (RV350) video card. Easy to customize, 90% of apps I need included in the ISO, the rest is available via Synaptic. Gives me whatever I would expect from a distro and DE for common daily tasks.