MX Linux Forum

Thought it was about time I said hello to everybody on here since I've been signed up for over six months and never actually posted anything. That's mainly because any issues I've had with MX have already been asked and answered by others, so a belated thank you to everyone who has suffered for the benefit of myself and others. Or I've found the answers in the documentation provided and the MX website, so also a massive thank you to everyone who provides the documentation to compliment this most excellent distro. I hate long-winded introductions so I'll leave it at that.

P.S.
Since I find introductions awkward in general it took me 30 minutes to write this, so I'm assuming it will take you 30 minutes to read it.

Welcome to the Forum, hydrogen-3! I hope you just don't decay and become an inert element around here.

Thank you Jerry3904. I hold on to my neutrons as if my life depended on them, mainly because it does.

Welcome! When people post this kind "I've been lurking here for a while" I always encourage them to post and ask for stuff, that's one of the benefit of a "small" distro, you can have an influence.

Humor is always welcome!

HI and welcome :)

I add my welcome, and one of the better intros I have seen, So it was well worth the effort you put into it. It did not take me 30 minutes to read it once . But by the time I read it 30 times it did amount to 30 minutes.

Thank you all for the warm welcome.

welcome - maybe you are aware of element 115 muscovium. that would take you to warp speed.

Tritium wrote: Thu Nov 21, 2019 1:25 pm Thank you all for the warm welcome.

I add my welcome to you too.
I've been using MX for about a year and must say how excellent the support is here ( and on the Antix site too!), you sort of feel you can trust the replies when you post a problem because the answerers are users too, they don't pull rank and pooh-pooh you because you aren't as knowledgeable as they are.
You probably are, but in a different discipline to them!

winemaker wrote: Thu Nov 21, 2019 5:00 pm welcome - maybe you are aware of element 115 muscovium. that would take you to warp speed.

Thank you winemaker.

Yes, I would love to actually see some Moscovium {assuming it was behind some appropriate radiation shielding). Unfortunately, the most stable isotope synthesised (so far) barely has a half-life of 0.6 seconds. One day though, maybe.

Welcome! What kind of rig are using MX on?

I use MX on my "newest" computers, usually Core2Duo with 2GB RAM and up. I recently bought an i3 8th gen with 4GB and now have MX-19 up and running. For my older stuff I use antiX.

Seaken64

Hello Seaken64 and thank you.

I've got 18.3 running on two fairly old AMD quad cores (one is defo an FX, the other possibly an A10) and a nearly ten year old Toshiba Satellite laptop. I've got 19 on a live USB at the moment, will probably get round to installing it on the hardware in the new year. I need a new system drive for my primary machine and that will have to wait until after Christmas anyway, might as well do it then.

The oldest I've run MX on is an Pentium-4 3.2Ghz with 4GB RAM. It's runs pretty decent but the fan can get pretty loud! Should run great on the quad cores. I've also noticed good results running only from USB 2.0 without installing to HD. But will probably be best with a new SSD. On this current i3Gen8 LT MX is fantastic with no lag at all.

Seaken64

Greetings from sunny Cornwall, UK

I have just started using MX Linux after changing from Mint which I have used since 2012. I wanted a lightweight distro than ran xfce and a saw a review for this on the Linux Today website so I thought I'd give it a whirl. Still finding my way around but very happy so far. I was pleasantly surprised at how fast it seemed to run from a USB stick. I have it running on an Acer Aspire 5349 laptop with 4gb RAM and 750 GB hdd

Rgds
Daveleh

Daveleh wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2019 9:51 am Greetings from sunny Cornwall, UK

I have just started using MX Linux after changing from Mint which I have used since 2012. I wanted a lightweight distro than ran xfce and a saw a review for this on the Linux Today website so I thought I'd give it a whirl. Still finding my way around but very happy so far. I was pleasantly surprised at how fast it seemed to run from a USB stick. I have it running on an Acer Aspire 5349 laptop with 4gb RAM and 750 GB hdd

Rgds
Daveleh

Welcome to the Forum.