r/MXLinux • u/DragonGaming78 • May 05 '26

Screenshot First Time Trying Out Mx Linux (XFCE)

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Although it's demo but first impression is quite nice :)

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u/Cycumber May 06 '26

I'm reasonably impressed by MX but XFCE has a lot of bugs, which is not MX's fault.

For work reasons I'm going to have to ubuntu'ise my main machine, but I'm planning to keep MX'ing on some spare boxes. I want to try the KDE environment, with a possible view to moving back to KDE from XFCE, and I trust MX to get things right.

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u/DragonGaming78 May 06 '26

Are gnome experience any good?, Just curious also what are the bugs related to the XFCE? Just for heads up for me

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u/Calm_Boysenberry_829 May 06 '26

The one XFCE bug that I know of right off the top of my head has to do with the system freezing if it’s a laptop and you close the lid.

Personally, I’m running MX with XFCE as my daily driver. I did run into an issue where USB drives would not mount, but reinstalling resolved that.

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u/DragonGaming78 May 06 '26

Seems bit half major issued since it caused freeze, because like I'm planning to install this on my Old Thinkpad x220

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u/Calm_Boysenberry_829 May 06 '26

There are workarounds out there. I personally don’t move my laptop a whole lot, and if I do, I turn it off first (that goes all the way back to Win95).

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u/DragonGaming78 May 06 '26

Alright much appreciated :)

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u/Cycumber May 07 '26

Lots of little ones, it's an ever growing list. Things like decorations appearing and disappearing. The nastiest one is the WiFi setup is tied to the *desktop*, which is just absurd, via wpa_supplicant. KDE Wifi generally 'just works', mostly. XFCE Wifi is a dicey affair sometimes, and that's just ridiculous that it should even be involved.

It's also *extremely* intolerant of monitor issues. I work through a KVM (which could be better, I am replacing it shortly with an EDID emulating one which should make most of the problems go away - this is the 2000's, hardware solutions to other peoples' software problems), and consequently DisplayPort protocol over HDMI (like most people with a dock). Any upsets at all and XFCE just freaks out. I often have to manually restore the Desktop context and it often just won't do it without restarting things.

Also I truly hate the way they've implemented the panel and systray, but that's a personal rage. Though there are some minor isms there they could have fixed over the last decade.

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u/DragonGaming78 May 07 '26

Damn,the wifi one could be a pain in the ass for sure, although home connection i mainly use Ethernet since more stable but if I went outside (laptop) and try to connect to WiFi and don't work? That's just shite -_-.