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I installed MX 21 on a spare USB-connected hard drive, works great. In time it will very likely become the install on my internal M.2 SATA drive as well.

Thanks so much for your great work, MX devs, and everyone else who contributed in any way.

A couple of very favourable reviews of one of your earlier betas of this OS were posted by the Youtube channel "LeePSPvideo":
- "MX Linux Raspberry Pi 4 / 400 How to install, Overclock and add some essentials": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elnn3joIxWI
- "MX Linux Raspberry Pi 4 / 400. One of my ...

Thank you, MX devs!!

Just curious, how many GB/TB of downloads do all MX releases use up per month, grand totaled across all mirrors, these days? Anyone know?

chrispop99 wrote: Sat Jul 18, 2020 4:09 am It must be popular - the SourceForge download is pitifully slow for me at the moment!

Chris

Sourceforge is also being difficult for me. I for one, would prefer for the downloads to come from some other place, than Sourceforge.

Edit: got it now...

I'm trying to get more usage out of things I already have.

The "Destination Linux" community has threads where people post interesting favorites. For example,

"Must have apps on any new Linux distro install"

I like hearing software choices vetted by other (real) people, as I trust ad-sponsored, published articles less and less.

Linux seems not to like NTFS. The shares in the Samba config look ok to me and only the first (joerg, is ext4 formatted) works:

Jeorg, I would suggest, please consider just doing the straightforward thing, and serve your data from a Linux filesystem, such as BTRFS, or EXT4.

Dolphin Oracle, I ...

A long time ago, I too tried to install Linux, but on an old G3 Mac. Also an iMac. Never again, shall I try that futile, painful sort of thing. Macs bend over backwards to keep Linux off of them.

Even so much as installing Virtualbox in Mac OS is hard these days (to run a Linux VM); you'll need to ...

Don't use BTRFS for RAID 5 (that is to say, using BTRFS's in-built RAID 5 feature). It's not stable. It says so here:
Status: BTRFS Wiki: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Status

Maybe consider XFS?