MX-23 beta 1 feedback thread

[Joseph DeGarmo]

Unable to boot on usb, it's written that antix is not able to find the bootloader. On single usb booting key and with Ventoy.

If you are using Windows, try Rufus. If MX Linux is your host system, then use MX USB Maker. If using a different Linux distro, then try mintstick (found in Linux Mint and available as a .deb package for Ubuntu, AUR for Arch Linux, or in the Debian bookworm repos) or Fedora Media Writer (if you are using Fedora). I created an MX-23 beta live USB using Fedora Media Writer and it works just fine from my end.

[asqwerth]

Ventoy: This has been addressed before in this or the alpha thread. Ventoy isn't recognising some file in MX23 due to some changes made in MX. A push request has been made to Ventoy devs but until they accept the changes, Ventoy won't work with MX23.

[Joseph DeGarmo]

one problem at a time.

OK, sorry about that. I'm using Wayland on Plasma on my main Fedora computer and the difference compared to Wayland on Plasma 5.20 is night and day. Wayland is now 95% usable on Plasma 5.27.

no worries. I've tried the wayland session a little but not much. my main issue, and it doesn't matter much for a default kde iso, is that it doesn't seem to launch from anything other than sddm.

if the joystick configuration work under /usr/share/X11 that gets a step closer

The joystick conf in usr/share works just fine with no breakage of wayland. Tested this on a live USB.

[FullScale4Me]

Unable to boot on usb, it's written that antix is not able to find the bootloader. On single usb booting key and with Ventoy.

This is a Ventoy bug. The MX developers have notified Ventoy.

Workaround is to create a conventional bootable USB with the MX Linux Beta 1 ISO.

[monsieurzik]

Unable to boot on usb, it's written that antix is not able to find the bootloader. On single usb booting key and with Ventoy.

If you are using Windows, try Rufus. If MX Linux is your host system, then use MX USB Maker. If using a different Linux distro, then try mintstick (found in Linux Mint and available as a .deb package for Ubuntu, AUR for Arch Linux, or in the Debian bookworm repos) or Fedora Media Writer (if you are using Fedora). I created an MX-23 beta live USB using Fedora Media Writer and it works just fine from my end.

Mintstick doesn’t make the trick. Failure again. Will try with mx usb maker.

Edit 21:55 : MX USB Maker failed too.

[entropyfoe]

I see that swapiness is now handled a bit differently.
It is still defaulted to 15.

But in /etc/sysctl.d/ there is now a 99-swapiness_mx.conf with the value.
Not a problem, but if someone is looking for it.

I set mine to 1.

[dolphin_oracle]

I see that swapiness is now handled a bit differently.
It is still defaulted to 15.

But in /etc/sysctl.d/ there is now a 99-swapiness_mx.conf with the value.
Not a problem, but if someone is looking for it.

I set mine to 1.

we've done that for a while. debian defaults to 60 I think.

[entropyfoe]

d_o,

Thanks, yea most people have loats of RAM these days.

The beta is looking very good , a worthy beta in the Warren tradition, more stable than a lot of released distributions.

[Jerry3904]

Mintstick doesn’t make the trick. Failure again. Will try with mx usb maker.

Edit 21:55 : MX USB Maker failed too.

When this happens to me, it can almost always be corrected if I use MX Format USB to reformat the device first.

[Joseph DeGarmo]

Unable to boot on usb, it's written that antix is not able to find the bootloader. On single usb booting key and with Ventoy.

If you are using Windows, try Rufus. If MX Linux is your host system, then use MX USB Maker. If using a different Linux distro, then try mintstick (found in Linux Mint and available as a .deb package for Ubuntu, AUR for Arch Linux, or in the Debian bookworm repos) or Fedora Media Writer (if you are using Fedora). I created an MX-23 beta live USB using Fedora Media Writer and it works just fine from my end.

Mintstick doesn’t make the trick. Failure again. Will try with mx usb maker.

Edit 21:55 : MX USB Maker failed too.

That's weird. Fedora Media Writer worked for me. And it requires Fedora. I'll boot up Linux Mint tomorrow and try it for myself. I'll also try it out on my MX-21 laptop. Have you tried Balena Etcher? I heard it's quite good.