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we do start pulseaudio a little differently, and if there is a saved home folder there could be a conflict I suppose.

checking the contents of ~/.config/autostart may lead some clues here.

also, please post the contents of the /etc/fstab. lets make sure the correct ntfs drive is in use ...

For the life of me, I can't understand why the ntfs partition that has all of his data in it absolutely has to be his Linux /home partition. Why not mount it at /media/wptophat/data instead? Then it'll be there in Thunar, all of his stuff will be there, /home will be formatted as ext4 so all ...

I also use an ntfs partition for data storage. I keep my home folders for each linux installation (and windows for that matter) seperate (in the system partition for each system), and link in the data partition. Here's a screenshot of my setup.

I've found over the years that having the settings ...

With any muti-os sharing the same "home partition." You will likely be better off creating a small /home directory on your MX install, and any other distro you use. Symlink your data files to your MX /home directory, you can easily do so with Midnight Commander. Your configuration file for MX or ...

Hello wptophat,

And yet Manjaro, Zorin, not Mint have this issue.

Your home directory of Manjaro, Zorin and Mint is NTFS formatted?

many greetings gosia


Yes, the home directory is shared between all of my installed distros.

https://imgur.com/a/XjAAg11

That shows my partition setup while ...

reinstall to a linux / and /home directory, not ntfs and see if it runs better ie do not keep your old /home, put /home in the / directory.


So just move 200+ gb of data? And give up the ability to easily access the directory from Windows?

Ummm....no thanks. I mean, Why? When this setup works ...

I just do not think MX is ready yet. It has potential and has some awesome tools. And I am certain that I could resolve all of the issues I am having IF I wanted to spend hours, or even days researching and trying to fix them.

But why would I want to do that when there are other options that truly ...

gosia wrote: Sun Jun 02, 2019 4:40 pm Hello wptophat,

wptophat wrote: Sun Jun 02, 2019 4:20 pm I found out that it has something to do with the fact that the Home directory is NTFS

a linux-home directory must have a linux file system, not NTFS.

many greetings, gosia

And yet Manjaro, Zorin, not Mint have this issue.

How does it run from the Live USB? Does it have the same problems there? If not, I would suspect the problems are due to you bringing over your Manjaro home folder on NTFS. Maybe you could set up a new MX home folder, and then bring over your settings from the old folder.


Yes, admittedly runs ...

Eadwine Rose wrote: Sun Jun 02, 2019 4:37 pm Did you check the md5sum of the download, and of the installation media?


That not matching can cause weird things to happen.

Yes I did, and it matched.