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@Mauser ... The good "common sense" exists because it is shared by a majority of humans.


Not in my experience and all family and friends experience. There was a time when sense was common but that has become long gone for over 30 years.


It's a factual fact, though; certain notions are ...

@Mauser ... The good "common sense" exists because it is shared by a majority of humans.

don't use it to post code, tutorials, etc.
Why not, I use it to write code and tutorials -- see mx-conky changes, it was mostly done with AI tools.

Do we want random users to post AI code? For that matter do we want random users to post any MX code in a public forum?


"Do we want random ...

Thanks for the info. dolphin_oracle , I do not know if i am going to try this ... or maybe via a own local repository, if I have to do that.

... So I do not have the need of nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver.deb metapackage ... I just have to upgrade the latest .deb of Debian from v 6 to v 13 ?
I have never do this before, so i do not know if I have to try that (I have to do a timeshift before).

$ ls -ls
total 61216
100 -rw-r--r-- 1 tof-mx ...

A question: Do I also have to recreate a new nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver.deb metapackage to be able to use ddm-mx with this latest version 390.157-13 from debian ?
https://snapshot.debian.org/package/nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-390xx/

The old one is nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver, Version: 390.157-6 ...

... For the compatible web browsers, you can see if sse# or avx# are supported or not by your CPU with: #cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep flags

# example here:
cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep flags
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ...

We don't have the resources to maintain repositories for releases that have reached EOL as MX-19 has.
But the nvidia drivers in our repos are built from debian sources and debian has the snapshot repository which does have the older drivers, e.g.
https://snapshot.debian.org/package/nvidia-graphics ...

Why MX-Linux, for me, should keep only the latest versions of NVIDIA legacy in its repositories (even for MX17, 19, 21,23,etc) :

The specificity of NVIDIA Legacy drivers compared to other NVIDIA drivers:

### Unique Characteristics of NVIDIA Legacy Drivers
NVIDIA Legacy drivers are designed to work ...

... You can also use a GUI to check the sizes: baobab (or in sudo: ncdu -x / --exclude home )