Minimal and CLI respins

[Adrian]

You are welcome, no problem will probably release it the same day or around the time we release MX-23 (as you know though this gets less testing so I rely on people like you to submit bug reports if you encounter problems).

[snl]

Is it possible to automount additional partitions in Thunar in MX Minimal?

[snl]

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[chrispop99]

Looking at MX-23 Minimal, and it seems that Pipewire is not used. OOI, what is the thinking behind that?

Chris

[Adrian]

Looking at MX-23 Minimal, and it seems that Pipewire is not used. OOI, what is the thinking behind that?

Chris

Could be an error, what packages are missing?

[chrispop99]

Sorry - false alarm. Pipewire is there.

Chris

[andy]

Hello Adrian,
thank you and the team for bringing MX-minimal and MX-cli to us,
looking forward to use these.

[Shaddy]

Hello @Adrian , thanks a lot for your effort I really like the Minimal But I hope it becomes official, I worked with 21 Minimal for more than a year and I'm sharing my note of things to do after installing Minimal:
minimal version(as downloaded) needs tweeking after install
- install gvfs so that thunar can see external drives or usb flash, and gvfs-fuse & gvfs-backends for ftp server to open within thunar.
- install menulibre for edit applications on the whisker menu to work.
- enable AHS repository for latest Nvidia drivers, from MX Repo Manager goto indivdual sources, find mx.list, check the box that containes ahs at the end of the line.
- after enabling AHS repo, install Nvidia driver normally, from the app menu find "Nvidia Driver installer"
- install Xarchiver for the extract here in the right click menu inside thunar file manager to work.
- to install Qiuck system info which is required by MX forums to give support, you have to know the right package name "qiuck-system-info-gui" (that was a tricky one)

[Adrian]

I might add gvfs,gvfs-fuse,gvfs-backends back, not sure about the rest. If I start to add stuff though it won't be "minimal" anymore.
I still don't recommend people to use this, this is mostly for people with OCD, or people who think for some reason that the number of packages in a distro matters.

[kkwoo]

Hi @Adrian,

Just a word of thanks for releasing Minimal 23.4 back in Sep-2024. When I boot up Minimal 23.4, MX Updater reports a bunch of upgrades which if fully applied will increase the distribution size by 479Mb. I'd like to keep Minimal 23.4 both up-to-date but also as small as possible. Would you direct me to which packages you kept or removed to create Minimal 23.4 please? Then I'll review the updates and decide on my own how to proceed with the MX Updater upgrades.

Happy New Year and Kind Regards,

Kevin