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jj 5117 wrote: Sun Apr 20, 2025 2:42 pm @RedGreen925

Killer. Thank you.

You are welcome.

Hi,
I have folders in the MBR for OSes that are no longer installed.
I wanted to make sure that it is safe to simply delete those folders.
Thank You!


Yes it is safe to delete the no longer needed files in your /boot/efi/EFI directory make sure you leave the BOOT directory there if you are ...

It worked perfectly, thank you very much for the help, and to everyone else who responded as well


You are welcome. It always does for me and has for so many years I have forgotten how long I have used it. Good to read it has worked for you too as I knew it would. Though you can do this with a ...

Hello, I currently have my entire MX install on a 256 GB SSD, and I just bought a 2 TB SSD that I'd like to move my home directory to, while keeping my root directory on the old drive and expanding it, I installed Bazzite on the 2 TB drive to test it out but now I want to replace it with my Home ...

Please note:
World Backup day: https://www.worldbackupday.com/en

Also: Good stuff in the MX Manual https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MX-Linux/mx-docs/master/mxum_en.pdf section 4.8.1


My backup script runs every two hours via cron close to like time machine does on Apple machine. It uses rsync ...

only completely with the --purge option used.

Thanks for the explanation. In my world 'completely remove' means, well , 'completely remove'. But yeah i'm not an OS.


It is in the man apt page but no one ever reads them things.


Removing a package removes all packaged data, but leaves ...

What about trying the prebuilt binary (64-bit only) inside the "Linux Archive" links here?

https://www.betterbird.eu/downloads/index.php

Our MX Firefox equivalent doesn't have any problems with extensions.


That works perfectly fine I have used it for a while. I put it in my home bin ...

If you want to get rid of its settings, cache, etc., you'll need to also remove the hidden .mozilla folder in your home directory.
rm -rf ~/.mozilla

I find this disturbing, 'Synaptic --> right click on Firefox and mark for complete removal' wont do that?!


The system knows nothing about ...

This is what makes some other browsers attractive.

What say you?


Who knows what they do I went with Floorp a forked browser based on it I had been testing out signed into my FF account and everything synced fine and is there. So far so good today with more than a few sites the FF butchers ...

Hello,

I'm wondering if it possible to install MX Linux on top of debian stable using this tutoral ? :
https://mxlinux.org/wiki/system/upgrading-from-mx-21-to-mx-23-without-reinstalling/




That is not a conversion guide to take you from Debian to MX, that shows how to upgrade from old version ...