Create Your Own ISO With MX Linux

[@MyAtaba]

The reason you would choose the 2nd type is for Company IT to create a deployment images with a set of company applications and settings and don’t have to install apps for each computer

[@chrispop99]

Just FYI; the Snapshot tool was developed for antiX, and was adopted by MX Linux. There is close cooperation between the two teams.

[@davidwayne9982]

I call myself a COMPUTER IDIOT-- but I used that feature with MX and LOVE IT-- worked FLAWLESSLY- even for a moron like ME. and i can put MY setup on any computer and not have to reconfigure ANYTHING.... see description below--- GREAT VIDEO!!!! Glad this is something you can recommend to others and I agree completely!!

[@drumpf4all]

Hey. I'm back. I took a break from Linux the last couple of months. I was happy to see you're doing well. Always loved MX Linux. Take care.

[@davidwayne9982]

I've had MX linux for about 3 weeks now- adn LOVE IT.. and I tried this feature yesterday-- LOVE IT TOO. I made an ISO of MY setup-- all customizations, background slideshow- all setting - everthing- and it worked flawlessly-- I can boot into MY setup on ANY machine now-. If My computer conks out-- I can boot this into a new one and never have to sit and reconfigure all that stuff.. it's THERE-- GREAT FEATURE. I also have tested everything in every way I can- and found NOT A SINGLE GLITCH whatsoever!!! It's KDE- very customizable- and I could turn it into AV LINUX by adding just a couple more programs... After 3 years of distro hopping_ I"M HOME-- I'm KEEPING this one... !!! AND it's DEBIAN- stable- FAST. light weight- actually lighter than the XFCE I had on other distros.... I have YET to find a single negative. I was UNABLE to do kde on any other distro-- always messed it up too easily-- but this setup works GREAT.. simple- easy- powerful... RECOMMEND IT TO ANYONE.. I'm NOT a newbie- but not an engineer either!!!! an dYES-- LOVE SNAPSHOT!!

[@rmcellig]

MX Linux, all three flavors, is an awesome distro!!! Thanks so much for this excellent video!! I used snapshot before and LOVE it!! One distro I feel is so misunderstood is puppy Linux. I'm using fossapup which is incredible once you understand all the cool, very cool things you can do with it. I think the big mistake people reviewing this gem make is comparing puppy Linux to other distros. I did that when I switched from using a Mac to using Linux. I was constantly comparing Linux to the Mac. Anyway, what I wanted to say is that puppy Linux already has a tool similar to snapshot. This is one of the main reasons I use puppy Linux so much. It's flexible with tons of tools and is fun to use!!!🙂

[@lumarlee6093]

Thanks. Another easy-to-understand video that will help encourage others to see the value of Linux, especially MX Linux : ) .

[@abhigyanbhattacharya6022]

Exactly what I was looking for...wanted to create an iso which would boot with the configuration and apps that I need in a live environment.

[@abhigyanbhattacharya6022]

I thought about this...maybe one wouldn't want to use MX Linux but want something similar to what I wanted in that case download sytemback (tar.gz one coz it's discontinued) on an earlier version of Ubuntu that will do

[@keikogaming]

Matt your channel is amazing and deserves more subs.

[@vtech6415]

Thank you very much for this amazing video. I tried it and it works perfectly even in my other laptop as well.

[@the1trancedemon]

This is a really cool feature. They should have this one other distros as well.

[@Afriqueleblanq]

I made my own ISO that has Resolve, Chromium, Xiphos and Bible Time with so many different Bible translations from Afrikaans to Zulu. I am a die-hard Mint user but MX makes it so easy. Your little sis in Grade 4 can do it. In Mint, quite a job to make a bootable ISO from your own installation.

[@airbossone]

Great video as usual Thx 4 the how to do it. Take care

[@Little-bird-told-me]

Mx Linux is so damn functional. I didn't realize how powerful this distro was until I distro hopped every other linux distro known to man. Alas I am too much invested in i3 window manager to care about hoping back to a DE like MX linux XFCE

[@TheLinuxCast]

Agreed. It is awesome. I'm thinking of hopping to it, tbh. I still love Fedora, but I need some adventure in my life.

[@midplanewanderer9507]

I just wonder though, would be any issues or unexpected behavior when plugging-in an MX iso generated from a system using an SSD HD into another laptop (or desktop) running an old-school spinning rust drive? (I'm thinking of installing MX Xfce on my old Acer Aspire 57332-4491 laptop I recently upgraded with an SSD, as the old HDD had the 'tick of death' thing going on. This will be my first time messing with Linux on a SSD HD, and I feel distinctly under-educated on the matter. Not even sure if the BIOS will recognize it).

[@Andre_XX]

Wish I had known about this a week ago. Would have saved me a lot of trouble!

[@oscs4556]

Mepis used to be my daily driver before I discovered arch. Mepis had the snapshot too, before simply Mepis become mx Linux.

[@btlift]

I agree that snapshot is an awesome feature.....years ago PCLinuxOS had a similar tool....Thanks for this demo...I want to build an ISO for my Second Life friends to have the tools we use...SL, Skype, OBS studio, Discord, Smule and Sing Snap websites bookmarked

[@pierpig7058]

Very cool video, I'm trying to do it but iso appears corrupted, which compression can you recommend me?

[@giuseppesteigman]

This really reminds me of remastersys

[@genkiferal7178]

re: snapshot: You _must_ allow twice the size of the .iso. If you started a fresh VM or USB with 6GB of storage and got up to 5 GB after customizing and adding stuff and then tried to save the .iso, it would fail. I made this mistake, and it tried for a long time to create the .iso, then finally gave me an error message saying not enough room. Too bad it didn't give me the error sooner. The .iso isn't as compressed as I expected and it doesn't ask you to save it to another disk/ drive.

[@davidwayne9982]

YES - I LOVE MX-- have had it a long while now-- and developed my own 3 styles to rotate between... :) AND can take it to any other machine and boot it up-- even on my SIS's work laptop with Windows on it!!! ha.

[@MinuteManGameReviews]

Snapshot doesn't work foe me, ever time I creat one it looks like default settings every time. What could I be doing wrong.

[@fredlenz4743]

Refracta Linux, a Debian Fork. Antix Linux all have this installed. It is in the Refracta repos. I think but am not sure Refracta developed it. Antix and Mempis teams cooperated in making MX Linux

[@chrispop99]

It was developed by the antiX team.

[@gamerking64]

Is there a similar tool to this for other distros like arch??? It would be interesting!!!

[@ayinsamekh3381]

Penguins-Eggs

[@robertmaxa6631]

Can you only create the snapshot from a full install, or can you create a snapshot from a live usb?

[@TheLinuxCast]

Not a clue. I don't think it'd hurt to try. You never know.

[@TnAhunter]

I have two older laptops which both have MX Linux on them. I want them to be exactly the same. So laptop a is where I do my tinkering when I find something that works I make an iso and then put it on laptop b. This way they both stay in sync. I love the snapshot to by MX linux

[@AbarSimorgh]

Thank you for the video. openSUSE snapshots!

[@stephenanthony5923]

Awesome tip. I hope this works on Debian 12 or Ubuntu.

[@TheLinuxCast]

I dont think it would tbh.

[@hassoumbadji508]

Can i create ubuntu iso with snapshot?

[@christianlehnert6320]

Thanks!

[@stealtx128]

Amazing

[@JaskaranSingh-ug5of]

Is this available for arch Linux

[@TheLinuxCast]

No. Sadly.

[@coompiler9029]

It would be so useful if this was available for Arch.

[@TheLinuxCast]

Agreed, 1,000,000%. If I could get this for my Arco install, I'd be soooo happy

[@anantgupta1188]

We have ArchISO :)

[@omar.eskandar]

Is this exclusive Mx Linux ?

[@TheLinuxCast]

I think so, IDK if they have it up on github anywhere for download.

[@omar.eskandar]

@@TheLinuxCast yes Found the git repo.. they have a warning of using this with non mx distros

[@chrispop99]

It is actually a feature of antiX that MX Linux use.

[@genkiferal7178]

on the Puppy forum, a guy said he got it to work with Puppy for a bootable usb drive.

[@amit5788]

Pls make a video on arch linux install script with leftwm. Thanks !

[@xiaopan7809]

archiso?

[@gamerking64]

I commented the same question...hope he will see it!

[@xiaopan7809]

@@gamerking64 there's a tool called archiso, never used it, but according to archwiki it has similar functionality, thus I commented it

[@gamerking64]

Anyway...hope if anybody will fork this snapshot tool and make one for arch, i think its a needed tool for all distros...its the smartest tool ever!

[@xiaopan7809]

​@@gamerking64 arch already has similar tool, the tool name is "archiso"