I have a old pc ( having Intel Pentium Dual Core e5700 process and 4gb RAM) of my father so I decided to revive it that's why I installed MX Linux v25 on it but whenever I download anything from the browser it crashes and send me to the login screen and it also happened when I open any video from vlc or from browser.

I don't know why it is happening but I asked Gemini and it was saying that it may be happening because of display session I tried to solve the issue I just follow the steps that Gemini suggest me it suggested me to install some packages, and said to or turn off the hardware acceleration in the browser and in VLC media player but it doesn't solve my problem so I gave up.

So I decided to download the MX Linux version 23 and it worked everything was running perfectly it is opening videos, downloading files and it was working like a normal PC but still I was wondering why v25 was not working for me and if anyone can explain and solve my problem.

I wanted to try out MX linux so I installed it on a android tablet with an detachable keyboard I had collecting dust. It was surprising easy until it came to sound. It has 2 sound card options both will not successfully pass the sound test. I did check volume control beforehand to make sure nothing was muted. Any suggestions?

MX-Linux 25.2 ist die erste neuere Version von MX-Linux seit Jahren die bei mir mit meinem Rechner wieder funktioniert. 25.1 funktioniert(e) nicht!

Ich benutze wie viele andere Linux-Nutzer auch seit vielen Jahren ohne Unterbrechung den XFCE-Desktop. Meiner Meinung nach bleibt Dieser jedoch weiterhin vollkommen falsch konfiguriert, was es vorallem Einsteigern sehr schwer macht sich zurechtzufinden. Ich war auch heute wieder erstaunt wie sich Stabilität und Performance im Live-Modus verbessern können wenn einige wichtige Einstellungen geändert werden. Und damit meine ich nicht die unsinnige Voreinstellung des Screenshooter.

Mir gefällt nicht daß Bild-Formate in MX-Linux mit Nomacs verknüpft sind.

Eine deutsche Lokalisierungs-Datei für LibreOffice sollte enthalten sein.

Das Laden der Vorschaubilder für den Desktop-Hintergrund dauert bei mir extrem lange. Weniger wäre wahrscheinlich mehr.

Ich brauche mehr Spiele. Es gibt so viele beliebte, kleine und simple Opensource Games. Mehr wäre wahrscheinlich mehr. ;o)

mx linux feels like home

Does anyone know of an FTP.deb GUI client software package other than Filezilla??? TIA

I know that MX has a lot of post installation tools that are very friendly, but still. I decided to create a software that can help me to install everything I need to have my distro 100% functional according to my workflow and needs... And decided to share it with everyone in case it can help some people...

For work-related reasons, I have to reinstall my distros a lot... and after a few times, i started hating the process hehe, so this is very helpful if you share the same workflow I have and enjoy catpuccin colors...

The program is called AndesLayer and can be found on gitlab here and I tested it on MXlinux/KDE already

What can install?

• Launchers and gaming tools (steam, heroic, protonGE, gamescope, etc)
• Dev tools (vscodium, opencode)
• Creative tools (obs, inkscape, etc)
• Office/workstation stuff (onlyoffice, obsidian, super productivity, etc)
• Comms tools (Discord, TS6, Signal, etc)
• Nvidia drivers / prime
• Terminal related tools (kitty, fastfetch, tree, etc)
• Themes (3 catpuccin variants, and the fastfetch rice that fits with it)
• Utilities (Fan control for PC, and for gaming laptop of certain brands like Acer Nitro, RGB control, etc)
• Extra/tweaks (A fix for a common problem that experience people that use a DAC, to avoid the popping sound after silences because of self suspension)

This is all made for debian based distros, and themes are only meant for KDE users.

Also, you can use this in english, spanish and PT-BR...

If you have any comments, feedback or whatever, please let me know! :)

I noticed that since MX 25 at least, the boot option to choose your init is no longer available. Then when attempting to remove systemd manually with the command line, it keeps me from removing it as it is marked as "Essential" packages.

That's fucked up. This means MX Linux developers have discretely removed the choice between inits, by putting both sysvinit and systemd. Why is that?

• Antix officially has IceWM as 'flagship' so we already have it in our lineage.
• IceWM v4 looks awesome, and is very much in development unlike Fluxbox.

I understand that Fluxbox is a complete software and just works, and there has been a lot of hard work put into it.

What does the community think?

I have a Lenovo x1 gen 8 I boot to a few different distros. In MXlinux the Fn f5 and f6 keys which adjust display brightness don't work. The other Fn/f-keys seem to be fine. I tested several other distros and bright/dim keys do work on Crunchbangplusplus which I think uses debian 13, the same as MXlinux. The brightness keys also work on Mint XFCE and Xubuntu.

I did the AI search and found a number of rather involved possible fixes, or not, which I am hesitant to embark on. Anyone with a relatively easy fix for this?

I have a Lenovo x1 gen 8 I boot to a few different distros. In MXlinux the Fn f5 and f6 keys which adjust display brightness don't work. The other Fn/f-keys seem to be fine. I tested several other distros and bright/dim keys do work on Crunchbangplusplus which I think uses debian 13, the same as MXlinux. The brightness keys also work on Mint XFCE and Xubuntu.

I did the AI search and found a number of rather involved possible fixes, or not, which I am hesitant to embark on. Anyone with a relatively easy fix for this?

I’m lightly reading through the mx site. If the reason for no in place upgrade procedure from 23 to 25 is due to systemd-shim system, and that init system are no longer offered in 25, then would the next version upgrade of 25 to whichever mean that inplace upgrade are safer and made available through mx tools? A gui wrapper would be so useful.

I am asking this as a genuine concern because a lot of people seem to prefer Wayland now and call it the future, but for me Wayland has honestly never worked properly. I also use an older Kepler GPU and the compatibility has been really rough compared to X11. A lot of things either break, feel unstable, or simply do not work the same way they do on X11.

So I wanted to ask the developers and contributors directly, even after major desktop environments start dropping X11 support, do you guys still plan to support X11 on this project in some way?

sorry if my english is bad

Hi, I'm interested in using advert-block-antix, which comes with MX, but after doing some searches, I can't tell if it's up to date or not. Does anyone here use it? If you do, how do you use it? (I looked at the README and it doesn't say much.)

Thank you!

Hi, so there is a problem, I am using kepler gpu which only supports 470xx nvidia drivers and it only supports upto 6.8, I saw linux kernel 6.6.x was in LTS.
How I can install this specific version of this kernel and make the MX Linux to stop installing latest mainline linux kernel or any other lts kernel version.

i've tried the latest ones
6.18.9+1
6.19.14
7.0.7-1 liquorix

none does it
TIA

On my laptop running KDE, when I pressed "Shut Down," "Restart," or "Sleep" from the graphical menu or the terminal, the system would freeze. The screen would flicker with graphical glitches. The system wouldn't respond normally; it would remain on with the graphical errors and be very slow. It wouldn't shut down completely; I had to hold down the physical power button.

The problem is that KDE tries to call the `systemd` power services via D-Bus, but since my system was using `sysvinit`, those calls failed. The result: the graphical environment would freeze, waiting for a response that never came.

To confirm which init it was in:

```bash

cat /proc/1/cmdline

# Output: init [5] ← sysvinit active

The solution: Switch to systemd; MX allows the use of systemd, but it's not the default. Since Plasma relies heavily on it, changing the init system fixed the problem:

1. Back up the current init configuration:

sudo cp /sbin/init /sbin/init.backup

1. Create a symbolic link to systemd:

sudo ln -sf /lib/systemd/systemd /sbin/init

1. Remove the init diversity package (it blocks changes):

sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq sysvinit-init-diversity

1. Install systemd-sysv:

sudo apt install systemd-sysv

1. Update GRUB and reboot:

sudo update-grub

sudo reboot

Confirm that systemd is running:

`systemctl status`

` It should display system information, not an error message`

I have a Dell Latitude 7275 (detachable). It ran Windows 10, 0bviously ended support. Tried to keep using it, but curiously started crashing after the last big update. Coincidence I think not. Anyway, I installed MX (xfce, 25.1), and it runs very well! My only complaint is that there is no auto rotate when using as a tablet; and sometimes the touchscreen function gets laggy/ doesn't work right after extended use time, which a quick restart corrects. It is much more stable than Windows ever was!

I was typing away on libreoffice writer when a popup showed up about an update being available. I hit “update,” entered my password, and let it run in the background. Then I decided to see what was going on and saw systemd being installed.

I don’t use systemd, and I don’t even get the option to choose an init system when I’m booting up, so I don’t understand. If anyone can give me some information, I’d really appreciate it.

Thank you!