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by RedGreen925
Sun Apr 20, 2025 11:33 pm
Forum: Installation
Topic: Can I simply remove folders from fat32 EFI_SYSTEM? [Solved]
Replies: 3
Views: 192

Re: Can I simply remove folders from fat32 EFI_SYSTEM? [Solved]

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

Killer. Thank you.
You are welcome.
by RedGreen925
Sun Apr 20, 2025 10:10 am
Forum: Installation
Topic: Can I simply remove folders from fat32 EFI_SYSTEM? [Solved]
Replies: 3
Views: 192

Re: Can I simply remove folders from fat32 EFI_SYSTEM? [Solved]

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 thinking ...
by RedGreen925
Fri Apr 11, 2025 12:46 pm
Forum: MX Help
Topic: Moving /home directory [Solved]
Replies: 9
Views: 386

Re: Moving /home directory [Solved]

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 live ...
by RedGreen925
Thu Apr 10, 2025 11:54 pm
Forum: MX Help
Topic: Moving /home directory [Solved]
Replies: 9
Views: 386

Re: Moving /home directory [Solved]

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 ...
by RedGreen925
Thu Mar 27, 2025 11:30 am
Forum: Security
Topic: Is your stuff backed up?
Replies: 31
Views: 1019

Re: Is your stuff backed up?

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 with ...
by RedGreen925
Sat Mar 08, 2025 10:19 am
Forum: Software / Configuration
Topic: Can you uninstall and completely remove Firefox
Replies: 16
Views: 797

Re: Can you uninstall and completely remove Firefox

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 usually small ...
by RedGreen925
Sat Mar 01, 2025 10:46 pm
Forum: Package Requests - MX-23
Topic: Betterbird .deb?
Replies: 10
Views: 684

Re: Betterbird .deb?

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 directory the ...
by RedGreen925
Thu Feb 27, 2025 8:24 pm
Forum: Software / Configuration
Topic: Can you uninstall and completely remove Firefox
Replies: 16
Views: 797

Re: Can you uninstall and completely remove Firefox

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 user ...
by RedGreen925
Thu Feb 27, 2025 8:06 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Firefox New CRAZY Terms of Use
Replies: 24
Views: 1214

Re: Firefox New CRAZY Terms of Use

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 working ...
by RedGreen925
Sun Feb 23, 2025 3:27 pm
Forum: Installation
Topic: Installing MX Linux on top of debian stable
Replies: 4
Views: 229

Re: Installing MX Linux on top of debian stable

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 of MX ...

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