BEST Lightweight Linux Distro - antiX + IceWM

antiX Linux is one of the best lightweight Linux distributions available to download today. antiX is a Debian based Linux distribution that gives you a systemd-free installation. This distro is great on old computers or if you have limited ram in your system. antiX is not only great for the lower spec machines, but for anyone looking for a simple lightweight operating system that doesn't get in the way of your workflow.
*Video Timestamps:*
00:00 - BEST Lightweight Distro
01:10 - Install
03:10 - IceWM
04:41 - App Select
05:33 - Marx
06:14 - Software
09:37 - Control Center
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[@ernon69]

You like: so with open browser and system running it's about 430mb of ram, not so bad..... While me on win11, running only system - 5.5gb of ram xD

[@scavanger1000]

With 100% disk usage

[@archetype6351]

@@scavanger1000 Windows 10 legit made my mechanical hard drive obsolete. I literally rushed out and bought a fricking SSD just to have a usable computer, it got to a point at which it just wasn't bearable anymore. I don't regret it, SSDs are great, but there's a saying that goes "if your OS runs slow on your HDD, you don't need a new drive, you need a new operating system". Wish I had switched to Linux earlier.

[@kristiyanivanov7414]

@@archetype6351 same

[@michelvosje]

If I'm correct windows reserves memory a lot for performance reasons. So it's not wasted. It's reserved or cashed memory.

[@godfather7339]

@@michelvosje umm, no. Linux does that too, what extra fluff does windows need to store? Does Linux run slow because it's taking up less ram? We know Linux runs faster, that means it's storing things in ram too, just that it does not have to store, candy crush, useless xbox related things, the spyware daemon in the background etc. Also, the OS is supposed to kill stuff if it is under load, does windows free up that 5 gb?

[@AndersonReis42]

I've bought an old netbook, Atom 1,66 Gh 1 GB RAM DD2, no internal HD, 800 x 480 display. AntiX was the only distro that made it run smoothly! Thanks for the video, it inspired me to test antix on this machine

[@AlejandroRodolfoMendez]

I have a similar one and I tried both batocera Linux, and rasbian so far and they work fine. Probably lakka would run too.

[@Gordonizon]

TinyCore should also work fine

[@MrGamelover23]

Not even puppy Linux could help?

[@AndersonReis42]

@@Gordonizon TinyCore did work, but it was a little to advanced for me since it was my first time using linux. I'm still using antiX, maybe today it would be different if I get to use TinyCore

[@AndersonReis42]

@@MrGamelover23 Puppy Linux didn't even get to boot. This netbook has some quirks, not even slax linux managed to run fine.

[@JoelPeltonen]

Awesome, Downloading this right now to test it out. I have plenty of ram and cpu, but I really appreciate a snappy system and this looks super interesting. Thanks for sharing a deeper look!

[@PakoSt]

Nice overview! I love any mention of MX Linux and AntiX - those projects really can bring new life to old devices :) It would've been great if you could show the snapshot tool - that imo is truly an awesome functionality that would be helpful especially novices.

[@vesogry]

Proudly anti-fascist "antiX Magic" You know that you deal with a bunch of moronic commies.

[@AlejandroRodolfoMendez]

On older hw I tried in the past puppy Linux (before the forks) and both slitaz and slax working, now in recent time I have rasbian and had batocera Linux on old laptops. I keep hearing about antix so I checked this. Great video.

[@ryukusu_luminarius]

Thank you for the review! The distro has nice and useful features! I'll think about installing it on old computers.

[@AmirHamzah_MAHBAR]

Nice timing, last few days my wife family member old laptop from 2010 (i believe its netbook), tried Xubuntu, run great but very laggy and RAM usage easily full. Till i found this video, will try today. Thanks and sub!

[@kychemclass5850]

Yeay! Was looking forward to your deeper dive. Tq.

[@Codename1Alice8]

Thank you, sir! Great distro to reanimate my old laptop. So it wont be trash.

[@pokzbegota493]

I really love your channel man keep it up

[@_Pymander]

Bohdi has been my go to for old tech but I like this I’m gonna try it. Thanks for the vid.

[@duduonyu5810]

This is a super review. Thank you!!!

[@rmcellig]

I'm so happy you did this video!! I have had a love hate relationship with this distro but I truly believe it wasn't the distro,cit was me. Actually I really love it especially the rox filer. It's so underrated and feature rich!!😀

[@dougtilaran3496]

I run it but like Ice-Space

[@robertmaxey5406]

I have used Antix and it is a great distro. Great video.

[@lauwe54]

thanks so very much i didnt know what version to download but after watching your great video iam ok,thanks again

[@tylerdean980]

Neofetch has an antix logo but you need to manually set it in the config otherwise it displays Debian

[@ps5hasnogames55]

antix is a marxist authoritarian anti-freedom distro so no thanks

[@jhny0]

@@ps5hasnogames55 antix is a what?

[@Stojke1001]

@@jhny0 same question

[@btsr2553]

@@ps5hasnogames55 why? …because? What is your best alternative, and why, please?

[@ps5hasnogames55]

@@btsr2553 alpine, devuan, void linux all far superior

[@Wol333]

Really would want to see it on a really old system. Push it to the limit

[@enkiimuto1041]

On the brief note of Antix and Mx sharing tools, it is because they're part of the same project, Antix is literally the X in MX.

[@malikrimzan5765]

Great video, very informative!

[@rmcellig]

This distro is great for newer computers as well. On my mini PCs it runs great!! 😀

[@diegomillan2806]

I use antix as a daily driver with a t60p thinkpad maxed out. It’s really great to have a system with such low ram usage.

[@diegomillan2806]

@@GottaBeNoah not at least on the kind of hardware that I use. On idle shows me 1 % of cpu usage in a core 2 duo t7200 with 4 gb of ram (only 3gb are usable, and the system on idle uses 200-300 gb) and a budget 120 gb ssd.

[@kenshinscott]

@@diegomillan2806 I hate the settings application do you know how to install a better settings application like kde or gnome settings? Because for a noob it's hard to configure this os with outdated software that lacks functionality I need

[@kosztaz87]

I have the same T60 laptop as a daily driver, and thinking about trying out a Linux version on it in the future. Are you still satisfied with antix on your laptop? An other comment here mentioned unusually high idle power consumption on his laptop with this distro (higher than it had with any other linux distributions), have you experienced any similar issue? Also I have Win 8.1 currently on my T60 laptop, and I undervolt the CPU with a program to make it run cooler (the improvement is quite significant). Are there tools on Linux (especially for this antix distro) for cpu undervolting?

[@diegomillan2806]

@@kosztaz87 if you have a t60p thinkpad (with a amd firegl graphics) maybe the best option out of the box is manjaro. The gpu works better. Right now im using manjaro kde because and actualization breaks my gpu and i have to fix the "no UMS in radeon modules" message with a kernel change, which is something that as a newbie to linux you dont want to treat inmediatly, because you are learning the basics. For Undervolting i really dont know, i usually dont have thermal problems with a good thermal paste, but i read some threads on thinkwiki forum who explains everything about undervolt in linux. Let me search it and i put the links right here.

[@kosztaz87]

@@diegomillan2806 Yeah doing those things would be definitely above my skill level, so will rather look into manjaro. Although I have a modified Thinkpad too (a so called "Frankenpad", it's a T61 motherboard with the Nvidia NVS140m gpu in a 15 inch T60 body), would antix work better with the Nvidia gpu in that machine?

[@MarioDanielCarugno]

AntiX is awesome, but I tried Q4OS Trinity and it worked very well also (Pentium DualCore 3gb) giving a more integrated desktop exeprience. KDE3 apps are still very good ;-)

[@blossomcherrypink]

I was actually going to use this distro on my main machine but Debian repositories are a bit annoying. Now I'm using Artix runit w/ IceWM and it is very comfortable. Love antiX and it is what inspired me to start using IceWM in the first place. It is a very clean distro.

[@ps5hasnogames55]

it's run by SJWs

[@blossomcherrypink]

@@ps5hasnogames55 I understand your concerns. And realistically there are other alternatives so why not pick up something not dipping their nose into politics. But I will say my 1.9 GHz laptop did not mind whatsoever.

[@Godfather-qr6ej]

@@blossomcherrypink isnt antix the distro that is Arch without System D? btw, does it have AUR? also is it lighter than arch?

[@somewhathappy5610]

@@blossomcherrypink wait isn't fascism like super bad?

[@k.b.tidwell]

@@somewhathappy5610 yea, definitely, but so is politicizing everything. It’s divisive and it’s always about me vs you, us vs them.

[@jakubpouzar3365]

I can also recommend SliTaz Linux for old PCs. It's super-small and relatively easy to use!

[@klashnikov22]

was that project dead at a point or am I tripping?

[@23tigerace]

kinda late 4 a comment on this vid, but thanks anyways man!! u helped me a lot with your review, i´m installing it (right now) in my old potato laptop (acer aspire3) wich i still love even when it´s spec´s are reaaaaally low for nowadays

[@streetcoder76]

Yes, icewm is very cool and fast. Nice to see it in action again, used it decades ago on a 80486 computer. Have to install it again, it was the fastest window manager i ever had even sometimes faster than blackbox, fluxbox etc.

[@AlejandroRodolfoMendez]

What requirements has? Maybe I could try on a old 486 or a pentium

[@streetcoder76]

​@@AlejandroRodolfoMendez I don't know. Kernel etc. is much bigger nowadays. I used to run Debian Potato with icewm on an i486DX2/66, must have been around year 2002. With the old packages it definitely should run but antiX is up to date, more secure and especially lightweight for old machines. Just try it. P.S. But websites and browsers got bigger too, I doubt KZbin will run on i486, maybe via VLC. But Abiword, Gnumeric, MP3 etc. should work just fine.

[@StockRocket]

Informative Bro

[@MrWarneet]

GhostBSD is also very very light yet has a Mate hat. I usually put that on clients low end laptops. Also Solus is a very clean and fast production.

[@barriewood9336]

Ghost BSB isn't a bad offering and I like Nomad BSD too, but neither as quick or low resource as AntiX. Q4OS and Mabox good calls too Again quicker than Ghost BSD in *my* experience

[@lechsiz1642]

Can you make the windows open in the same place every time - a bit like a tiling WM? For example: If I resize app windows and open them in a certain order on Xfce, then they are in the same place every time I use my PC.

[@andreiuul1]

this distro looks very nice, and performance is great (my laptop can play 4k youtube videos without dropped frames which on other distros it cant) but i did some testing and something does not add up on a i5 4200u laptop with the battery pulled out, kwyboard light off, screen to minimul, fans off, it pulls ~17w on idle, fresh boot, measured with a socket power meter the same laptop would pull ~8-10w on idle with pretty much any other heavier distros like mint, zorin, elementary, feren, some of which hover around 2gb idle ram usage i don't know where this is coming from, maybe cpu scheduler, maybe it avtivated the nvidia gpu by itself, can anyone else measure the power usage and make some comparisons to other distros?

[@archygrey9093]

It might have a "maximum performance when on AC" mode activated or perhaps just has a really bad built in cpu frequency controller. If you install powertop (sudo apt install powertop) then you will be able to see a detailed list of what things are using power and how much. Might be worth trying out auto-cpufreq, it will automatically control the cpu frequency to save battery better (when off ac power) than the distro usually will, my computer now idles at 800mhz most of the time on battery and has definitely improved battery life.

[@fred-youtube]

Look for a power manager and set it to power saving mode

[@fred-youtube]

Or turn off max performance on AC

[@BenderdickCumbersnatch]

Hey, there's an updated version of Pop Shell at their GH, which works perfectly in GNOME 41 and Wayland. :)

[@BenderdickCumbersnatch]

I should mention that you have to disable gnome extension version checks if you use GNOME 41 because the extension manifest hasn't been updated, but it works perfectly. Just read their issue about GNOME 41 for the command to use.

[@BenderdickCumbersnatch]

They have now updated the extension manifest to include GNOME 41 too.

[@proctoscopefilms]

This is the first time I've seen any Marxist influence in the FOSS world. I really thought it'd be all over the FOSS movement. I'm not endorsing any particular ideology, but you gotta admit, FOSS has some socialist undertones. It's free software in which anyone can contribute, and everyone that works on it has part ownership. It's got a VERY anti-corporate aura around it, one that somehow rivals that of the old school 'worker's rights'-type socialists. It's really amazing that the FOSS movement hasn't been high-jacked by political interests already.

[@tylerdean980]

RMS is super leftist, almost to the point of parody

[@moister3727]

so

[@proctoscopefilms]

@@tylerdean980 I didn't know that, thank you! RMS is a very... interesting character lmao

[@whykepedia]

@@proctoscopefilms Yeah, I usually say "controversial" and keep it at that. But I agree with you about Marxist influences in the open source ideaology. The idea that software should be free and open to everyone goes along with the idea of food, medicine, education, and housing should be free and open to everyone. But unfortunately the alt-right movement has wrapped it's tendrils around the FOSS community.

[@archygrey9093]

Funnily enough the communist countries probably have some of the least access or even even outright discouragement of FOSS

[@YannMetalhead]

Good review.

[@anirbellahcen5551]

Thanks for the video, I wanted a lightweight system that can run on the dual boot for the minimum storage possible. It seems that AntiX is what I need.

[@tj71520]

I often use antix on older hardware. It runs really really well

[@ps5hasnogames55]

too bad it's run by SJWs otherwise i'd use it

[@tj71520]

@@ps5hasnogames55 hm didnt know that. But what other alternatives are there that are systemd free and lightweight?

[@ps5hasnogames55]

@@tj71520 void linux

[@tj71520]

@@ps5hasnogames55 cool, I will give it a whirl

[@tj71520]

@@kreuner11 not politics, lack of security updates in antix is the main reason .. it turns out they are slow to make security updates

[@RedBearAK]

AntiX and IceWM is definitely one of the lightest desktop distros, but I found the last 32-bit version of Linux Mint Xfce to be a much better experience overall, after following a performance tuning guide I found online. IceWM was a great DE 20 years ago when I was running it on a laptop with Libranet Linux, but it feels very archaic these days. Most DEs today at least have a searchable app menu/launcher, even Xfce and LXDE.

[@francescovolpini]

it's a matter of workflow. you can integrate all those functions into icewm, it's very powerful. also, i don't get why you would use a 32 bit os on a 64 bit machine

[@RedBearAK]

@@francescovolpini 64-bit distros use about twice the RAM just for the base desktop. Really old laptops have max RAM limits from 256MB to 1GB. Even Xfce uses around 350MB on a 64-bit OS. About 180MB on a 32-bit version of the same OS. With such limited RAM there isn’t an advantage to going 64-bit. And then of course the actual laptop I was messing with had a single core 32-bit CPU. So…

[@Acidburn3141]

@@RedBearAKum. No. My xfce runs over a GB

[@ValSchnitzel]

Do you remember the name of the guide? I am on Antix which works smoother than mint xfce, but it is such an ugly and messy OS, even with customization.

[@chrislinuxtutorials5283]

I am so glad it was born in my country!

[@notanimufailzone]

Another good lighweight albeit slightly heavier linux distro (not by much) is VOID Linux in particular the MUSL varient. I have it on my laptop which is newer but basically bottom of the barrel from like 2018. It's great and only uses around 300mb of ram on boot.

[@cockatoofan]

It'd be neat if musl worked with systemd. Not a problem for void I guess.

[@ps5hasnogames55]

void is superior simply because it doesn't pride itself on being run by SJWs

[@tylerdean980]

Void is really light, I’ve got it lighter than antiX, with DWM, void idles around 90MB. But void is also ‘void’ of packages. So, antiX is better because of that alone.

[@cockatoofan]

@@tylerdean980 what is void missing? I have basically everything I need setup (although I configure and install nvim and zsh with nix) there's a few proprietary packages you can't install on musl but can be installed on glibc with xbps-src Pretty much the only thing I couldn't get from the official repo was lua-language-server but thankfully that was in nixpkgs

[@tylerdean980]

@@cockatoofan Honestly, now that they've moved away from LibreSSL maybe it's better than it used to be. But I wasn't able to get a package for my Broadcom driver, even after enabling the non free repo. And if I remember right, they only have like 20k packages in the repos, right? If I'm accurate, that's less than half of what a debian system would get you.

[@dannymaupin5498]

Appreciate your videos ! Have you ever tried out NixOS? It seems like an interesting take on Linux and would be curious about your thoughts

[@florianfelix8295]

I‘m trying out guix right now, which should be similar... definitely intriguing but also a bit too rich for the average person o think.

[@dannymaupin5498]

@@florianfelix8295 a bit rich as in learning curve?

[@samuelitooooo]

How does it do with CPU? KDE is supposed to be lighter than XFCE on RAM these days, but it's unusable on my HP Mini. It can boot into the desktop, but loading anything would cause it to get stuck. But you can actually get stuff done with any XFCE distro (Mint, Zorin OS Lite, Linux Lite) on this same HP Mini, even though it supposedly uses more RAM. I have Lubuntu on it right now but can't tell whether AntiX would run faster because the only comparison being made is RAM.

[@Zerzayar]

Does it support running PiHole or PiVPN? I do not know if these depend on systemd... (And yes, I want to install these services on a X86_amd64 computer I have laying around, not a RasPi.)

[@mattchowbeach]

Yes great video. I put antix on a very old laptop (architechture 32 bits, 532 RAM) and it's very fast. My only draw back (till now) is that it's not very intuitive. For instance I can't figure out how to set up my internet connexion. I look at the official forum and the only answer I found is to open Connman tray and fill the fields (not those exact terms but you got the point). But those fields are not very 'user friendly' in my opinion

[@Bryan-vv4hn]

I don't know if it was just my timing but when I tried to load up this distro (antiX 21 I believe is what I grabbed) the theme was very old looking and not really anything of what was shown here (could be the version I had/have which if it is please let me know). I tried antiX 21 base and full. (looking around i am seeing it might be a version thing, between antiX19 and 21)

[@Deiki.]

yes, for some strange reason antix 21 has an ugly and old theming xd...

[@gorebish7950]

Seemed very interesting, but when i tried to boot it and it went well until it got stuck with the cursor in the middle and a pitch black background. Had to reset the laptop and I can't get it to work at all. Any tips? This distro looks like it can give life to a few outdated laptops lying around. Alternatively, I hope you can do a showcase on Dietpi for PC, looks very promising especially for lightweight distros.

[@Winnetou17]

I can't really tell, but do you have an NVidia GPU ? And if yes, have you installed its required drivers ?

[@gorebish7950]

@@Winnetou17 I do, how do I get new drivers if I'm stuck in that screen? It also has integrated graphics so I don't see why it would opt for the nvidia if it doesn't work.

[@Cookiekeks]

I've found a very old computer with 256mb of ram on the streets about a year ago. I might try to install this Linux distro on it just for fun

[@korben4340]

might be a tad too heavy for 256, have a look at tiny core or some of the smaller puppy linux versions

[@nycbearff]

I've still got my first usb 1.0 flash drive - 128 mb - and it's still functioning. It's not in regular use, I just plug it in every couple of years to see if it's still alive. One of the small Puppy linux distros is probably your best bet with your old laptop. They're suprisingly workable.

[@gabrielmartins7642]

I had that exactly netbook, I use mint on it, cuz it was the first that I had on a pen drive . Works fine now I can even do python graphs on it. But I am kinda digging this one, might change

[@bennguyen1313]

Does the antix/IceWM distro come with 'ethtool'? Just looking to do a quick mac address change and installing linux, even on a vm, takes a while and gigs of space. Hoping just a bare live cd that can do ethtool.

[@protonmail-hk4ji]

Excellent !!!!

[@Karibou1312]

Thanks for this video ! How can you access to your Google-Drive account if you use AntiX ? There is no gnome-online-account ... Thanks for your help !

[@leadlearner6391]

thanks for another informative video; how do I have different wallpaper on each workspace? thanks again

[@sun_of_GOD]

Play Wot BLITZ on antiX on my old notebook) Nice work OS 5/5

[@CayoBuay]

Thanks for this video... Trying to bring an Emachines E442-v133 back to life, any other suggestions?

[@ITQuestIT]

Poland?, thumb up:)

[@davidwayne9982]

CAN I put that on USB- and use the tools to make the snapshot and live usb of ANOTHER distro ?? and maybe the other tools too??

[@wcdeich4]

Cool, if I can find the time, I'd like to try the base ISO :)

[@robertmaxa6631]

Antix isn't the most user friendly, if you're coming from a Windows background,(personal experience) It's great in many ways, but not necessarily intuitive, like trying to cut and paste, from one folder to another. If there is a way to do that, then please inform me. Also, from running Antix, as a live USB on my Windows system, I can't seem to mount the Windows drive. I'm open to learning.

[@Zephyrus0]

Sounds like a SpaceFM issue, try updating it or install other file managers like Thunar or Nemo. Hope it helps. :]

[@mj-x4416]

Modern Windows doesn't completely shut down so locks the partition to prevent damage. Doing a full Windows shut down by pressing WINKEY+R and typing: shutdown -s -t 00 and hitting enter should leave the partition accessible. I've seen another solution mentioned which may have involved changing a setting in the bios but this method works fine for me.

[@robertmaxa6631]

@@mj-x4416 Thanks, I figured that part out. I found a shut down script that handles that nicely.

[@godfather7339]

1) to cut and paste (move) , use terminal `mv`. 2) sudo mount NAME/ID PATH_to_mount

[@tebasnineone]

​@@godfather7339 You're right, You absolutely right. But The way you explain it, will just make any beginner afraid to use Linux.

[@craterface12]

I will be trying this on a potato machine that can barely type a Google Doc Fingers crossed that it works well

[@ackhanna1]

Does it have hover mouse or assist click mouse..if not how to enable it through other software..... thanks

[@elalemanpaisa]

Can we appreciate that the installer already copies the files while you are going through the config?

[@davidwayne9982]

For some reason, I'm CONFUSED by the WINDOW manager thing instead of DE-- I like customizing and stuff and have NO idea how I do that here.. Took me a LONg time to figure out how to get the different file manager that would actually recognize my STORAGE drive... and figuring out how to set things up-- was a booger. Goina take me a while- but I'd LIKe to be able to use this-- it IS debian- and It IS fast.. but I can't catch it quick.. (I'm OLd and cna't see well..)

[@mmichaels5345]

Could a Windows user install this and use it just for browsing, youtube vids? I have an old laptop that even Zorin lite just hangs up on.

[@20thCY]

Yeah you could use it for browsing and KZbin vids just don't do anything too difficult on the system

[@killerhawks]

This cool but what had are you using?

[@bigroddempsey4082]

And here I am using 1.5 gigs on boot. I need to clean my install bloody hell

[@adenaziz3600]

i have crappy HP Stream 8 tablet which currently running windows 10 ( lite mod), takes 500mb only for system. if i try this linux distro will it good?

[@barriewood9336]

It will run way better than Win10. A bit of a learning curve for those not having used a Linux distro before!

[@rockycassiano4756]

Cuz has a single core, +Hyper-thread.... Got it on U-tube with Puppy-Linux. Is antiX lighter than puppy?

[@ps5hasnogames55]

use alpine or void or devuan not this marxist propaganda antix shit

[@rockycassiano4756]

@@ps5hasnogames55 ?? you have one vid on your channel... And you self-id, as a Marxist.... Come out of the closet and admit, you use anti-X as your daily driver.... LOL

[@nycbearff]

@@ps5hasnogames55 Poor dear, yes, stay away from this distro! Especially those bookmarks! It might turn you into a person who reads and thinks, if you're not careful. It takes stern resolve to remain properly ignorant.

[@ps5hasnogames55]

@@nycbearff Lol, refusing SJW indoctrination is "ignorant"

[@rafsanrahman7810]

Lubuntub is also a good option but this looks good too

[@fulalascaos9633]

Nice video! Just let you know that this RAM consumption can be a bit misleading. First, you're running in a VM and that usually means less RAM usage by definition. Also, because this distro is using a really old kernel (from 2016!), not only it uses less RAM but it won't work properly on new machines. So... what about lightweight distros that run new kernel/packages and also has a small ISO size? Porteus, maybe? :)

[@scordatura9259]

He tried it on his old laptop on the other video and it seemed to consume even less ram than on this vn

[@faetalize]

Arch.

[@chewysplace3542]

Tried this, but CubLinux is still my fav light distro, not supported anymore but still my go-to light on resources based on Ubuntu 14.0.1. Way more bare ones though.

[@aurelf3158]

MXLinux user here for a long time .Stable ,fast and cute .

[@Flackon]

Is there any advantage of using IceWM over, say Fluxbox? IceWM is not a wm that one sees often bundled with distros

[@Epsilonsama]

I tried installing this distro but it wanted me to redistribute my cores.

[@genkiferal7178]

If you can figure out how to get antiX core installed - maybe even with Fluxbox, I will name my next pet after you. Not like the other WMs from antiX. zzz-Fluxbox can be attractive and fast. But, I've tried in several modes (regular and failsafe and one other) to install core and I think it must be broken. When it asks me to reboot, the .iso immediately disappears and I get an error message saying no bootable medium/

[@ItzSelenux]

on box-look there are good themes to customize IceWM

[@robertocarlostorresrojas6172]

Maestro

[@spaceguybob]

In surprised antix hasn't been updated yet.

[@nabildanial00]

it is. its still in beta but its totally usable. ive been rocking antix (installed gnome btw) on my gaming pc full time (ryzen 5 5600x & rtx 3060ti) for a few weeks now, its super fast and by far the fastest and smoothest distro ive used for gaming and for general use. its basically a preconfigured debian minus all the bullcrap and systemd. i use openrc and everything just simply works.

[@spaceguybob]

@@nabildanial00 uh. Well I guess. Really any distro would work for you. My 2010 core 2(intergated graphics) it works pretty well

[@tj71520]

It has been useable for several years at this point, Ive used it since 2017

[@spaceguybob]

@@tj71520 I'm not saying it's unusable just not updated yet to debian 11.

[@tj71520]

@@spaceguybobit takes time for them to remove all the bullcrap like systemd etc each time there is a new release plus they need to do alot of other stuff to the distro... however, they ought to remove the political stuff from the distro and they shouldnt be afraid to offer installation of the propietary drivers

[@fernandoortiz393]

Buen video

[@Gamer-ct6hb]

One of the most lightweight Linux distros. The people who say this. Don't know what they're talking about most of the time. One of the best lightweight Linux distributions is Oasis Linux. It has the most lightweight window manager (Velox because it's based on swc which is 40x as light as icewm). It uses about 50 megs of disk space. Which is ofcourse lower than 3.5G. And the RAM usage is about 20 megs of RAM. It is barely usable as a daily-driver because it uses musl. Which barely works if you want to use something that isn't lightweight (Pipewire, pulseaudio, etc.).

[@WeiChei]

Every time I try to install, I get an error saying grub wasn't installed correctly!

[@skeditz1428]

Can any1 help me i installed all linuxs but all lagged some freezed i hve dell inspiron 15 and want to use it for coding Requirment : chrome+vscode or any + discord

[@paintbasedpunk3441]

i wanted to install it on an old laptop but unfortunately i cant connect to any wifi i tried it on multiple devices but the conman app doesnt show me any wifi connections is there someone with a similiar problem?

[@20thCY]

Under maintenance go to network assistant. Then go to the Linux drivers section and if you know your broadcam driver load it and unblock it. If you don't just load and unblock them all and you should be fine

[@paintbasedpunk3441]

@@20thCY thanks a lot!

[@salah56477]

Could anyone tell me why do i always ended up with an ugly look desktop after installation while all tutorials got the exact same look of the LIVE distro after the installation???

[@tailyfale]

Is there any sense in installing AntiX on a decent modern PC? I mean, being lightweight is great, but what are cons of this choice over, let's say, original debian?

[@duanegcanaday8575]

What version of Antix is this? This doesn't look like the latest version?

[@iamright7275]

Bro ive successfully installed antix, but after rebooting to system my laptop got stuck black screen. Any solution?

[@ivancabrera3289]

i tried downloading linux mint but my crappy internet is just too slow for a 2 gb download so any suggestion for a 1gb linux distro that is also easy to use im so done with windows 🙄

[@ipshitshaha7244]

I use antix19. 4 on a old desktop pc having intel pentium J2900, integrated graphics, 120 HDD & 2G DDR3 RAM. It really works like magic. The only problem is I am noob in linux and I can't seem to find a better way to change the way ot looks but Manjaro wallpapers do look great with Antix IceWM theming. Seriously it works better than linux mint on my Laptop with much better config than my desktop pc. If someone knows how to make it look better, please share..

[@ckrumbach]

At 10:10 you can see how to install a new desktop environment. Go with xfce or MATE if you want to keep the lightness of the system.

[@gbncondor88]

i'm using Loc-OS 23 LXDE ..very fast for old PC's..using it with a HP-Compaq ,16 years old..Core-Duo 4gb of Ram....is Antix better?

[@Cookiekeks]

Can you do a video on Tiny Core OS? It's the most mimimal you can get. The smallest iso is like 12 or 16mb

[@rbs9227]

antix is more functional lol, bc debian bruh

[@Cookiekeks]

@@rbs9227 more usuable, but also more bloat. Would be interesting to see how far you can go to remove bloat (which is basically what TinyCoreOS does)

[@antiX1917]

@@Cookiekeks so what do you define as 'bloat'? Things YOU don't need but someone else might?

[@Cookiekeks]

@@antiX1917 in this case I just meant everything that isn't necessary for an OS to run

[@antiX1917]

@@Cookiekeks So in that case, try antiX-net or antiX-core.

[@IngwiePhoenix]

What Desktop Environment does this run? Looks really nice ^^

[@Dot_UwU]

Icewm ,probably with no desktop environment

[@barriewood9336]

Rox - IxeWM You can change WMs on the fly within antiX I run it on USB3 srick with Fedora my nain install.

[@frederickwood9116]

Thanks for this one. Only just discovering antix. Anyone think it’s a reasonable place to start for a kvm host with a minimum desktop ?

[@mayankgupta1961]

My 12 y/o tower runs AntiX and it works reasonable for a 12 year old PC.

[@kdt85]

can this be used persistently from a usb?

[@gustavoalvarez1396]

I use antix on my old laptop, but can someone tell me how to reactivate the copy-paste feature on the file manager, instead of the default drop and drag that is quite unconfortable.

[@antiX1917]

Use right-click

[@andrey8688]

Ctrl+X and Ctrl+V

[@dlittlester]

Maybe I'll try this on my HP Mini 32bit with 2GB ram. Right now it's running Mint with (I think) XFCE.

[@konvict4467]

Is there any way to get a display out through hdmi ? On this OS ?

[@falloutboy286]

I don't have HDMI on my old Dell Netbook - VGA was the only thing back than. But, just plug it in. Worked.

[@daringcuteseal]

Maybe unrelated, but does your (anyone reading this) RAM usage increases the more you use it?

[@archygrey9093]

Only if you got more stuff running on it or in the background.

[@Jossandoval]

Yes, sometimes if the system has memory available, then it simply uses that instead of "releasing" the one in use. The idea is that if you return to your previous work, you don't need to waste time waiting for everything to reload from the drive. And if the system get's short on ram, then it start to release the space used by those older things first. That's why the exact same distro can use differents amount of ram in different computers.

[@ThylineTheGay]

nice bookmarx

[@samuelmatheson9655]

LET'S GOOOOOO

[@setoman1]

1:05 - What did you say? 😲 The lightest I had was 324 😂

[@allenellisdewitt]

Next up, Puppy! :)

[@simonzinc-trumpetharris852]

Awful.

[@dimitriskaraganis]

amazing disto..loved that ..better than linux mint ..by far ! bye bye linux mint ! thanks for the video