Top 5 MX Linux Tools (That ALL Distros Should Have)

[@adriantm8430]

Thank you for the great review, as someone who programmed some of these tools it's very nice to see that people find them useful. We, devs of MX Linux are users of the system and pretty much created tools we wanted to use, sometimes we simply went "why is this not working (better)" and created a tool to fix that. I pretty much started because I wanted to fix something trivial, the first time I touched code was when I wanted to remove a silly "accept the license" in the installer that we took over from MEPIS, then I went, "why the installer doesn't let you install /home and root on different disks" and changed that and so on...

[@RobertBaraheon]

Thanks for good job on this distro 👍👍

[@jnb756]

MEPIS was another distro that didn't get enough credit - It was my main ride for many years and MX is a fantastic expansion of its roots.

[@jeepee2]

Thanks for your work! Because of these tools, I'm thinking about moving from Kubuntu to MX Linux.

[@bithostel]

Also think this "XFCE implementation is really good." but there are a fluxbox newwave", the xfce was updated, i realy desire that the xfce dont be put on the plan B

[@TheLinuxCast]

No glasses here, so things are blurry. I broke my frame so I need to find a screw to fix them. Hope everyone enjoys the vid! (Also, just to let everyone know, KZbin is deleting comments left and right, so if yours get deleted, sorry about that.)

[@jons2447]

Yah, comrade, 'tube is using da crazy spetsnaz AI to delete comments of capitalist running dogs.

[@chrispop99]

Thank you for reviewing some of the MX Linux tools. The reason the developers have created these tools, and add to them, is that they actually use MX Linux every day in their real lives.

[@chrispop99]

The Copy/Sync function of the MX User Manager tool allows you to align a newly created account to an existing one. It's really helpful if setting up a multi-user machine for, say a family.

[@torsten.breswald]

ah, imagine the teams of mx, mint, zorin, q4os, elementary and several other distros who make tools for themselve would come together and make all tools available everywhere, the outcoming distro would be probably the perfect entrance distribution for new users

[@fullscale4me]

Several tools from some other Linux OS have made it into other distros. USB formatter is one I've seen Peppermint and Mint.

[@mirkograveho1388]

I am a new user, the firefox version that comes with mx linux has a grayed out update option. That's not a great start. Next I have to find out how to replace ff with a clean version as it keeps on freezing, am having to use another pc to write this

[@jackburton8352]

I am a Linux noob but i am really enjoying my time in Zorin at the moment having come from windows. Always been interested in Linux since the first ubuntu release which i ordered on a free DVD but never got to grips with it but since MS pulled the hardware crap for W11 i finally had enough and i am glad i made the switch Linux has come so far since the first time i took a look at it. Thank you for your content you and others on youtube who explain Linux related topics have really helped me to become comfortable with Linux since i made the switch a week ago.

[@TheRealFrankWizza]

MX Snapshot is looking pretty solid. Actually, all of this looks solid. I might try MX one day.

[@TheQuixoticRambler]

Used snapshot in one instance, remaster in another, to copy live setup; with custom setup and packages. Now I boot from usb into a "fresh" custom system, running live in RAM, every day. I've never been happier and cannot imagine going back! With a new computer on the cards I will still mostly use live mx distros without persistence. For me, persistence defeats the purpose of being live (in this context).

[@bertvantol9669]

Max -Paul, can you explain in more details how you made a Live USB, loading and running from RAM. And why not persistance ?? In my opinion, persistence makes your USB ultra portable ....

[@TheQuixoticRambler]

@@bertvantol9669 Hi, yeah I just opened up the remaster tool and followed the instructions. Choices were clear and unambiguous. Great tool and great interface design in that crucial regard. As for persistence there's no right or wrong, just user needs and preferences. For me, I just wanted to run a live system every time. Partly cos my hd may be on the way out, but mostly cos I like the speed and responsiveness of an OS operating mostly or entirely in RAM. The remaster tool offers a persistence and non-persistence option, btw. Portability is not a consideration for me in this instance. But, of course, you're right. If portability is your thing then persistence is handy, for sure. Oh yeah, used balenaetcher to install new snapshot iso onto a separate pendrive. Also a brutally clear and simple app to use. I cannot offer any further advice on "how" to use those tools as I cannot remember any individual steps taken. I'm no expert. I am not that guy! Just dabbling and enjoying the experience.

[@atarorna30]

The "remaster" tool is for when you are running on a live (persistent) USB (that you made with "MX live USB Maker"). It brings all the updates and programs you installed into the iso, "remastering" it. This is the best feature all distros should have imo, the live USB persistent options. You carry your MX on a USB and run it on any machine, to get rid of the USB "lag" (if needed) you do a "frugal install", it's really amazing.

[@zscoder]

Been looking for this kinda info recently. Thanks for sharing

[@milohoffman274]

Yep MX is the one distro that could get me away from Arch, I have it on another partition and play with it once in a while. They are doing a good job. I think we need a set of tools that are in every distro and every desktop environment. Stop making KDE or GNOME settings and make a set of Linux User settings and Linux System Settings that could be the same on every system. That would help things in the long run. They would have to be good enough to use them instead of the various other DE specific provided tools that do many of the same functions though.

[@kaiar9286]

Thank you for this video, I love the way you explaining things, very clear, methodical and you make it interesting with your own personal input, I particularly appreciate your honesty, such as you noted that "there are MX tools that you don't even know what they are", it is refreshing to hear such unpretentious, honest opinion. All in all, I enjoyed your cast, look forward to seeing more from you. Thank you! 👏👏👏👍👍👍💥💫

[@varenneriocha8712]

MX user since a couple of years. Yes, I am impressed every time. The most recent time was when I tested MX 21 on my spare laptop. I immediately moved to the spare laptop. ;-)

[@airbossone]

Good review, thanks. MX was my first distro as I was starting with linux now I’m using Arch ( -I like the AUR)and honestly sometimes I miss MX. I’ll install it on my old laptop.

[@chrispop99]

You don't need to use dd to create a bootable USB from your Snapshot. If you use the MX Tool Live USB Maker, it will identify either an MX/antiX ISO or not. If an MX/antiX ISO is detected, a USB will be created in a way that all the live persistence options can be used. If a normal ISO is detected, it will just use dd to create a normal bootable USB.

[@BrucesWorldofStuff]

MX Linux is my daily driver for my media system. It just works and never gives me a issue. The 2 issues I have had I got a answer from the Dev in less than 20 minutes of leaving the message. Mine is the old Cinnamon desktop that they use to have in MX-19.1 but they took it out of the software app... :-( If I ever have to reinstall I will have to install MX Xfce and install Cinnamon on top of it. I like Xfce but Cinnamon is my choice of desktops. Bonus! MX makes a great rescue USB drive as I have used it several times. I have use it for Ubuntu and Arch systems to fix stuff on the systems.. Thanks Matt for the awesome look at this really cool distro... LLAP

[@Kokuraman]

Deep review, man! Arigatou gozaimasu!

[@jeremydoerksen5988]

The bash config gui could be useful in helping noobs to feel less intimidated moving into the terminal. I spun up an MX VM, not long ago. The documentation for the project was _lovely_ for new people. Like, _ideal._ As far as distro-specific system tools, though, imo openSUSE has everyone beat. YaST is amazing - even if a little slow.

[@TheLinuxCast]

I love YaST, but it's complicated af. Kind of like the distro-wide equivalent of the Plasma settings panel, just worse.

[@jeremydoerksen5988]

@@TheLinuxCast Yeah - definitely not beginner friendly; but, for someone who knows what they want to do, I can't think of a better gui tool

[@russellrussell5495]

Snapshot should 100% be on every distro. I do exactly what you said - I create my customized MX-awesomwm then duplicate it onto my laptop. It's perfect!

[@dwaynecourton10]

Two things that might drive you nuts about MX-KDE: KWIN crashes with too many deskFX! (Fall Apart+Wobbly Windows+Magic Lamp) Desktop might right-shifts on login. Must logout and in again. Dude! A 11.8GB clone of my system on usb! I

[@robenroute]

Thanks for making the effort to show us some of MX’s tooly (sorry, invented that word on the spot) gems. Two little tools not mentioned that proved very helpful a few times already are MX Key/Signature Repair (or something along those lines) and the reinstall GRUB tool with EFI option. The later saved me a lot of work a few times! Thanks again.

[@micaiahflores1592]

i love how they have a persistent USB option!!!

[@kenneth_mata]

Any chance of taking a look at Fedora Silverblue / Kionite (or whatever is called) ?

[@TheLinuxCast]

Maybe. I have it on my list of things to do

[@starkmouth]

Boot options is a game changer for me, if only for what I thought was me nit-picking. I appreciate the grub menu when there are multiple operating systems on separate partitions. I do not appreciate the grub menu when there is only one OS installed and I want it to boot up.

[@iandobbin8068]

All I can say is I agree.👍 Went nuclear from Mint and haven't regretted it.

[@itsme7570]

MX is pretty sick. I still have a mx vm but I tried using it as my daily driver on my hp laptop but it wasn't as smooth as I needed it for school so I went back to Ubuntu budgie. Is there any way we can add the MX to our sources page and pick and choose what tools we want on our desktop?

[@d4rk_knight]

I love Arco Linux . like to see some of this tools in arco Hopefully Arco dev will see this 😌

[@darren537]

MX has been solid for a while I'm a noon that switched because I couldn't get my Bluetooth connected and went POP aside from that I do still prefer it

[@sunnysun8688]

Fantastic review, After watching your vids i decided to try MX21 ahs, And i must confess that i am glad i saw your vids and tried it, truely impressed. Want to use it as my daily driver. But i have been having trouble using simple scan, (even though it comes out of the box) , i even tried reinstalling it, also cant i stall image scan or iscan, the installation gives error of files not being found, Also tried my luck with gscan2pdf. If u could make a vid on scanners in MX21 it would be great help, thanks in advance.

[@beauteetmusculation8191]

You showed a lot of UI tools here, but for an experienced user I don't think any of them would be interesting. The less graphical UI the better. Once you know how to do stuff in the terminal, you are less and less interested in distro hopping, and most tools would work the same from a system to another (even non Linux). But that's great that you enjoy these tools. I bet a lot of people are too, and that's great if people are more interested in opensource systems thanks to these.

[@harton_pictures]

Dukungan printer juga tidak bisa. Epson L120 gak bisa cetak di mx linux. Kenapa di mint bisa di mx tidak?

[@adnankaya4112]

best linux distribution for end user but i like xfce

[@iCQ_www.SPCL.tk_]

dude i LOVE your choice of posters, im a arch guy used to be.. well actually i come from slackw.... now im into ubuntu studio.. call me a slut but i sub and +1 ur video 💛🙏

[@iCQ_www.SPCL.tk_]

sorry plasma compizzzzzzzzzz... kde sucks xfce

[@iCQ_www.SPCL.tk_]

xfce owns

[@harton_pictures]

Partisi ntfs tidak bisa copy paste file di mx, tapi di mint bisa. Masukan untuk mx linux

[@LucianC137]

anyway to get that wallpaper without installing mx linux?

[@TheLinuxCast]

This is the closest I could come, sadly not HD. pics.computerbase.de/9/9/8/4/5-3e0078969f429ac0/article-1280x720.2be116aa.jpg

[@simpan197]

VM and pass a folder through?

[@stuartm5745]

YT keeps deleting my comment that provides a link to the full resolution image (1920 x 1200) for the wallpaper source (I used several ways to disguise the URL, all to no avail).

[@stuartm5745]

The author of the image made a post giving a link to full size image. That is post #60 in this "forum DOT mxlinux DOT org/viewtopic.php?p=647259#p647259" link. Post #7 in that link has the same image but is less saturated and doesn't look as good. Both of his posts have a link to the original image which are 1920 x 1200. Neither has the MX logo, but that can be obtained elsewhere and edited into the image.

[@siamhie]

@@stuartm5745 Same here.

[@iCQ_www.SPCL.tk_]

oh when i travel i do it with an SD card with partitions on it.. 32gb data fat for my android phone where it is hidden in.. but my sd card is 256gb... bootable from any pc or laptop with my own grub2 and my favorite linux boot

[@mirkograveho1388]

lots of tweaking and yet the firefox version that comes with it, cannot be updated manually? wow

[@nonetrix3066]

I have never seen anyone see MX Linux is have a suspicion they bot their distro watch but it's fine

[@dougtrue8659]

If MX linux isn't the best in your best guess what would be the better distro???

[@themroc8231]

It's a pity MX doesn't support switching to the testing or unstable branch like Antix does. If it weren't for that i'd probably use it.

[@TheLinuxCast]

There's nothing really stopping you from changing things in sources.list just like you would in Debian. It would work. Things might break, and they don't support it, but those are the same warnings that the Testing folks give, so ymmv

[@themroc8231]

@@TheLinuxCast Have you ever tried Antix?

[@TheLinuxCast]

@@themroc8231 nope. Artix not antix

[@themroc8231]

@@TheLinuxCast I strongly recommend trying it out. It' s like a 15 years old distro by now, it comes with a bunch of window managers and it's much more lightweight than MX. I keep comparing them to MX Linux because MX is a joint effort by the Antix and Mepis communities, and many of the MX tools come from Antix. Anyway it' s a really cool distribution, you'd like it.

[@crossbowbeat]

Am I or am I not a power user? I believe in the power of Odin.

[@menzokruizinga]

If they made a i3 version i will used in a instant End pro mode like crazy 😉

[@chrispop99]

i3 is installable from the MX Linux Package Installer, and a number of users have had success with it. There are a few posts on the forum about i3 also.

[@menzokruizinga]

@@chrispop99 ok thanks for info but I need a prebuilt version because my bad eyes I can’t build it myself 😉

[@gnuemacs1166]

I like mx

[@eijentwun5509]

Ubuntu MATE has MATE Tweak........ I use MX Linux ONLY because its one of the last Linux's that support 32bit. But it is the ugliest Distro I have ever seen... I installed MATE desktop on it to fix it. XFCE is horrid especially on MX. They need to change the Name MX and either make XFCE look like Zorin, or Mint or Linux Lite. then it will be easier to understand and gain more favor.

[@bithostel]

bithostel TI 1 second ago Also think this "XFCE implementation is really good." but there are a fluxbox newwave", the xfce was updated, i realy desire that the xfce dont be put on the plan B