MX Linux Forum

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 12:11 am**

Old-ish retired engineer here. Was sitting in a meeting where I brought my old battle-scarred, heavy, and very solid 10 year old Dell Latitude E6430, while surrounded by others with mostly sleek macbooks and one Dell XPS. They looked at my laptop with a "does that thing still work?" look, while MX Linux fired up very quickly and very snappy with its SSD drive and 16G ram, and its built like a tank. It was a fun experience, kind of like driving up to a group of Tesla's with a '57 Chevy. Granted, my battery doesn't last as long and the display is nowhere near a retina display. Still, with XFCE themed out just like I like it, and as snappy as it is, its awesome.

https://imgur.com/9sBnSrY.png

Anyone else have have an old beast that they are still grateful to own and proud to run?

Moderator: image changed to link, please read the forum rules

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 2:20 am**

I was using MX 18.3 on an olde HP dv6-2130tx laptop until my dog knocked it onto a tile floor and the fan broke. I've been meaning to get it repaired then increasing its DDR3 1066 RAM to 8GB (its maximum) and installing a SATA SSD but I never seem to get around to it, now that the nearest repair shop is open again. I really need to do that as I think I'll have a need and use for it in the next few months. I love the fact that it has a nearly full-size keyboard and a 15.6 inch screen though at 1366x768 resolution.

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 2:30 am**

Granted it's only used as a backup (it's really heavy and battery life is poor), but I still have a roughly 2010 ASUS X42D laptop working just fine on MX19.

It was just put to the test last December when my sis and family visited. My nephew had to spend a week in hospital and I lent him the old clunker so he could surf the web and watch youtube. Very basic tasks, nothing too taxing on the cpu or graphics card, but at least I know it can still do its job.

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 4:19 am**

I have several E6430 machines, and they are great. So easy to repair or upgrade. I have two family members that run their small businesses using E6430s with MX Linux on.

I also have some Thinkpad T430 machines of a similar era that I use all the time for testing. I have a couple of XPS 13s, and although 'pretty', they don't really work that much faster than the older ones.

Chris

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 4:37 am**

I have a couple of eeePC901s running MX19.
They run rather slowly with the old Atom processor but my wife and I like them for their smallness, lightness and good battery life.

Older laptops with only 512k RAM cannot run MX, but are usable with AntiX.

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 4:39 am**

I'm running MX21 KDE on Asus EEE 1000HG (2010 probably; 2gb, Atom, SSD). It's more or less just a backup of a backup machine, but it's fun and has one of the best keyboards I have ever tried. Screen resolution is a bit too small (1024x600, no touch) so I had to install Plasma instead of XFCE.
Hardware doesn't allow anything fancy, but it runs (almost) smoothly - if you don't open too many tabs :)

Oh, and kids have their T440s (which are from 2014 IIRC?) running MX21 KDE

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 4:52 am**

I have an ancient Dell Dimension with 512 RAM and an old Celeron processor i386 that runs 32-bit antiX - with the xfce desktop added - nice 'n' fast.

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 5:48 am**

I have MX21 Fluxbox 'flying' on my main Sony Vaio (2010) machine, as did Debian- and MX based Xfce editions previously .
This laptop came with - and still has - an i7 (2nd gen) Cpu and with 6gb ram. Sofar only changed the HDD for a dirtcheap Kingfast 240gb SSD. This machine now has roughly 16.000 operating hours on the counter; it is running a bit hotter than it should (idling at around 50°C) and battery condition only at max 80%. But still with a deadpixel-free display and overall great performance, I'm a happy camper...

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 6:45 am**

The oldest machine I have currently is the Acer Aspire V5 in my signature which dates from 2013.

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 7:53 am**

the T530 in my signature is of 2012 vintage. The dvd has been removed and replaced with a second drive bay holding a 1tb spinning disk and the original spinning harddrive was replaced with a 500gb SSD. This is my main production machine, largely for the keyboard and extra drive bay. I would probably still be using my older T410 which had an even better keyboard, but the graphics in that machine do not support opengl3 which I need for some video recording tasks. Only 8gb of ram. I have built the MX isos on this machine, but I have another more powerful machine for that now, but that machine has a keyboard and port configuration that is so annoying I can't stand to use it for production despite it being superior in spec in every other way.

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 8:05 am**

ThinkPad T43, which is probably over twenty years old. Web browsing is so slow that I won't use this laptop for anything other than reading forums. It sits on the coffee table next to the sofa and I'm using it now for this post.

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 8:10 am**

HP Mini 1.6Ghz, 1GB RAM, 150GB HD, MX18.3, no battery; slow as molasses on web. Perfect for bedtime reading.

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 8:50 am**

AV Linux MX-21 Edition on a Samsung RV520, built in August 2011. 4x 2,3 GHz, 6 GB Ram.
Performance is great compared to the also installed Windows 10 21H2 .

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 9:12 am**

seriousness wrote: Tue Jul 26, 2022 8:50 am AV Linux MX-21 Edition on a Samsung RV520, built in August 2011. 4x 2,3 GHz, 6 GB Ram.
Performance is great compared to the also installed Windows 10 21H2 .

Love to hear that!

2005 Dell Inspiron 9400 laptop here maxxed out at 2Gb of RAM, At the time I paid big money for the 1920x1200 display but I've never regretted it... One of the first core-Duos but sadly only 32bit.. Currently happily running MX-21 with Enlightenment D.E.

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 10:26 am**

I have an old SFF (small form factor) machine I built over 11 years ago.

I was running MX 18.3 until recently. It had my usual configuration, AMD CPU (a Athlon 615e 45Watts, four cores @ 2.5 GHz), Asus board, SSD (60 Gig back in the day), and upgraded to 8G RAM. Probably the computing power of a lot of phones these days.

Was totally functional for browser based-banking and finance stuff to segregate for security (No e-mail or casual browsing).
I was going to upgrade it a few months ago, but working in the small case is such a hassle. So, I updated it to MX 21. Still works great, now serving as a back-up machine.

Pays to buy good hardware. It also as a 1TB WD green drive. These drives had a 1 year warranty, but still works. Admittedly the system has a lot of time suspended to RAM.

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 10:56 am**

AVLinux wrote: Tue Jul 26, 2022 9:12 am
seriousness wrote: Tue Jul 26, 2022 8:50 am AV Linux MX-21 Edition on a Samsung RV520, built in August 2011. 4x 2,3 GHz, 6 GB Ram.
Performance is great compared to the also installed Windows 10 21H2 .
Love to hear that!

Thanks to Openbox' ability to hide titlebars, Ardour fits perfectly on the 1366x768 screen.

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 11:37 am**

Panasonic CF-29 w/touchscreen from about 2006. Use daily for web search, browsing, document creation, video watching (doesn't like 1080p but 720p is good), navigation, whatever, etc, etc.

Kernel is patched to allow use of both PCMCIA ports.

Also have an ssd with MX21.1 that runs almost as quick as 19.4

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System:    Kernel: 4.19.118 i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.19.118 
           root=UUID=<filter> ro reboot=pci quiet splash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 tk: Gtk 3.24.5 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.14.0 vt: 7 
           dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-19.4_386 patito feo October 15  2019 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Matsushita product: CF-29LTQGZBM v: 004 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Matsushita model: CF29-4 v: 001 serial: <filter> BIOS: Phoenix K.K. v: 4.00L11 
           date: 07/19/2005 
CPU:       Info: Single Core model: Intel Pentium M bits: 32 type: MCP arch: M Dothan family: 6 
           model-id: D (13) stepping: 8 microcode: 20 cache: L2: 2 MiB 
           flags: nx pae sse sse2 bogomips: 3192 
           Speed: 1600 MHz min/max: 600/1600 MHz Core speed (MHz): 1: 1600 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Vulnerable 
           Type: l1tf status: Vulnerable 
           Type: mds status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT disabled 
           Type: meltdown status: Vulnerable 
           Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics vendor: Matsushita 
           driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:2592 class-ID: 0300 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.14.0 driver: loaded: intel 
           display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1024x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 270x203mm (10.6x8.0") 
           s-diag: 338mm (13.3") 
           Monitor-1: LVDS1 res: 1024x768 hz: 60 
           OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 7.0 128 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.6 compat-v: 3.1 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW AC97 Audio vendor: Matsushita 
           driver: snd_intel8x0 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1e.2 chip-ID: 8086:266e class-ID: 0401 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.19.118 running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 12.2 running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Marvell 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Matsushita driver: sky2 
           v: 1.30 port: 3000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 11ab:4362 class-ID: 0200 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG [Calexico2] Network driver: ipw2200 
           v: 1.2.2kmprq port: 3000 bus-ID: 06:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:4223 class-ID: 0280 
           IF: eth1 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 149.06 GiB used: 104.61 GiB (70.2%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD SM841N mSATA 128GB 
           size: 119.24 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: <unknown> 
           type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 5D0Q scheme: MBR 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 model: SDCFXS-032G size: 29.82 GiB block-size: 
           physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: <unknown> type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 6.01 
           scheme: MBR 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 117.21 GiB size: 114.87 GiB (98.00%) used: 104.61 GiB (91.1%) 
           fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 2 GiB used: 2 MiB (0.1%) priority: -2 
           dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 53.8 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     Packages: note: see --pkg apt: 2006 lib: 1003 flatpak: 0 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mirror.it.ubc.ca/mxlinux/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/softmaker.list 
           1: deb http://shop.softmaker.com/repo/apt stable non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:      Processes: 181 Uptime: 15m wakeups: 2 Memory: 1.46 GiB used: 1 GiB (68.7%) 
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 default: 5 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 
           alt: 8 Shell: quick-system-in default: Bash v: 5.0.3 running-in: quick-system-in 
           inxi: 3.3.06

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 12:56 pm**

HP T5740 thin client(3GB ram, Intel ATOM N280 1.6ghz, 8GB SSD). And also on DATALUX touch screen Police cruiser machines with 4GB Ram, Intel Core 2 duo 2.5Ghz ,120GB SSD and Intel CORE i5 2.5ghz 8GB ram, 120GB SSD. All these running Live embedded version of MX LINUX 19.3 32bit(thin client), and 64bit AHS (DATALUX touch screen machines).

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 1:28 pm**

Acer Aspire One D255E with Intel Atom N455, (1.66GHz, 512KB cache), 1GB DDR3 memory and 160GB HDD with MXLinux Fluxbox installed on it. It is multibooted with Bodhi, Sparky Linux and EndeavourOS also.

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 1:35 pm**

Currently, a Gateway ec1803h (Circa 2009), which I've upgraded to 4 GB RAM. Slow, but everything works, if a bit slowly.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Gateway-E ... 716.0.html

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 7:39 pm**

dolphin_oracle wrote: Tue Jul 26, 2022 7:53 am that machine has a keyboard and port configuration that is so annoying I can't stand to use it for production despite it being superior in spec in every other way.

Let me guess: "chicklet" keyboard with very short key travel and very little tactile feedback, and all the USB etc. ports on only one side? My Lenovo laptop's like that. I actually prefer the old HP Pavilion even if it has only a 2 core CPU and slower RAM.

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 10:45 pm**

Answering the original question: A Toshiba Portege Tablet M700, about 14 years old, or the desktop is a Dell Optiplex, age uncertain but has been updated with an SSD.

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 11:31 pm**

Happily running MX 21.1, with Xfce since April 2014, currently on refurbished 2013 Lenovo T430.

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System:    Kernel: 5.10.0-16-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-16-amd64 
           root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.16.1 vt: 7 
           dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-21.1_x64 Wildflower October 5  2021 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 2349DG5 v: ThinkPad T430 serial: <filter> 
           Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: LENOVO model: 2349DG5 serial: <filter> UEFI-[Legacy]: LENOVO 
           v: G1ET92WW (2.52 ) date: 02/14/2013 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 39.6 Wh (96.6%) condition: 41.0/56.2 Wh (73.1%) volts: 12.1 
           min: 10.8 model: LGC 45N1005 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Not charging 
CPU:       Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-3380M bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Ivy Bridge 
           family: 6 model-id: 3A (58) stepping: 9 microcode: 21 cache: L2: 3 MiB 
           flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 bogomips: 23148 
           Speed: 1520 MHz min/max: 1200/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1520 2: 1451 3: 1549 
           4: 1401

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 5:36 am**

Into my third year with MX on my Latitude E6410. (AD 2010!)
-Intel Core i5 M 540
-8 GB
-1TB SSD and a spinning disk in the DVD bay
-Dell docking station for extra ports
-Outputting to the laptop screen and 1920x1080 display set as primary

I'd like a better machine but I have a mortgage to pay off. Anyway this machine works very well and the chassis feels indestructible.

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 7:11 am**

My Goodness ! A party without my "legendary" HP Pavilion ?

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Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: Pavilion dv4000 (EK970EA#AB8) v: N/A 
           serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 309D v: 52.11 serial: <filter> BIOS: Phoenix v: F.21 
           date: 01/18/2007 
CPU:       Info: Single Core model: Intel Pentium M bits: 32 type: MCP arch: M Dothan family: 6 
           model-id: D (13) stepping: 8 microcode: 20 cache: L2: 2 MiB 
           flags: nx pae sse sse2 bogomips: 3458 
           Speed: 1733 MHz min/max: 800/1733 MHz Core speed (MHz): 1: 1733 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 55.89 GiB used: 5.67 GiB (10.1%) 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 8 GiB size: 7.81 GiB (97.65%) used: 5.67 GiB (72.6%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5 
Swap:      Alert: No swap data was found. 
Memory: 1.96 GiB

(Yes, even with no swap

)

Lads & Lasses, just have a look at the conky please:

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 7:54 am**

I like using sometime my old and small eepc MSI U123 (3 boot partitions , antiX21 or MX21 or Win7)

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$ inxi
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: MICRO-STAR product: MS-N033 v: Ver.0 01
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: MICRO-STAR model: U-123 v: Ver.001 serial: <superuser required>
    BIOS: American Megatrends v: 4.6.3 date: 05/06/2010

  Desktop: IceWM v: 2.9.8 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.26.0
    Distro: MX-21.1_386 Wildflower July 27  2021
    base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)

$ neofetch --config none --off --color_blocks off -v --stdout
--------------- 
OS: MX i686 
Host: MS-N033 Ver.001 
Kernel: 5.17.0-3mx-686-pae 
Uptime: 14 mins 
Packages: 2751 (dpkg) 
Shell: bash 5.1.4 
Resolution: 1024x600 
DE: ICEWM 
WM: IceWM 2.9.8 (Linux/i686) 
WM Theme: VistaBlack_antiX-marron 
Theme: Greybird-mx [GTK2/3] 
Icons: Papirus [GTK2/3] 
Terminal: roxterm 
Terminal Font: Monospace 9 
CPU: Intel Atom N280 (2) @ 1.667GHz 
GPU: Intel Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express 
Memory: 759MiB / 2002MiB

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:03 am**

I run a lenovo R61(2008 model) dual core, 2 GB ram and an acer aspire 5738z (2010 model) dual core cpu and 4GB of ram. At this moment they run my mx21openbox respin without any problems!!!I use the acer as my daily driver!!!

Posted: **Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:35 am**

MX21 on 2009 Dell Inspiron 1545, dual core, 4Gb RAM. Bit slow to boot up but it's fine once it's up and running. Bit like me, takes me a while to get going in a morning, but I'm ok after a coffee

Posted: **Thu Jul 28, 2022 4:41 am**

Laptop Packard Bell EasyNote LJ75, from 2010, 17" monitor (1600x900 resolution). MX Linux 19.4. - Old laptop, old release.

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System:    Kernel: 4.19.0-21-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: Xfce v: 4.14.2 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.5
             info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm v: 4.14.0 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.26.0 Distro: MX-19.4_x64 patito feo February 15  2020
             base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Packard Bell product: EasyNote LJ75 v: V1.05 serial: <superuser required>
           Mobo: Packard Bell model: EasyNote LJ75 v: V1.05 serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Packard Bell v: 1.05
             date: 01/05/2010

Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2022 3:45 pm**

AVLinux wrote: Tue Jul 26, 2022 9:12 am Currently happily running MX-21 with Enlightenment D.E.

Respect the positivity...I'll have to give that a try on a laptop.

It was 2007 when I built this box and while not so powerful it is useful. Web pages load pretty fast and it streams 1080p full screen on my 32 inch monitor nicely. As a bonus, Plasma desktop runs smoothly. It's my go-to when there's work to be done.

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System:    Host: BlackBox Kernel: 5.10.0-16-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.20.5 
           Distro: MX-21.1_KDE_x64 Wildflower April 9  2022 
CPU:       Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo E6550 bits: 64 type: MCP cache: L2: 4 MiB 
           Speed: 2320 MHz min/max: 2000/2333 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2320 2: 2312 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA G84 [GeForce 8600 GT] driver: nvidia v: 340.108 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: loaded: nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa 
           resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: GeForce 8600 GT/PCIe/SSE2 v: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 340.108 
Info:      Processes: 175 Uptime: 11d 4h 26m Memory: 3.84 GiB used: 1.35 GiB (35.1%) Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.06

This makes me think about how you can run the latest linux system on the oldest hardware just like you can do with Win...oh...nevermind.

Posted: **Fri Aug 12, 2022 12:33 am**

I had been running a Lenovo/Thinkpad R61i Core2Duo 2GB RAM from 2010 until the battery died. Haven't been able to get a new battery yet. It ran MX-21 XFCE as my daily driver. I replaced it with a Lenovo Ideapad 330S, with a Core i3-8130U and 4GB RAM and four threads. which also runs MX-21 XFCE. But I don't consider that an "old beast" yet. It's from 2018 and also runs Win11. My second/backup is now an HP ProBook 4520s from 2011. A Core i3-380M with four threads and 6GB RAM. That runs MX-21 KDE very well. I take it on road trips. It's a little "bulky" when compared to the Lenovo but I like it. Except for the touchpad. It's too far to the left and a little jerky. I have Win7 on it also but almost always use MX.

Seaken64

Posted: **Fri Aug 12, 2022 1:49 pm**

I have MX-21 KDE running happily on a 12 year old HP 8460p laptop that sports a 240GB SSD and 1TB HDD in an upgrade bay as well as 16GB RAM. Runs pretty snappily on this quad core 2nd gen i7 CPU to boot. Even though this machine has basic Intel graphics, no issues related to graphics (albeit not a gaming GPU) either.

In all, MX will be able to bring many older machines back to life especially ones too old to really run any version of Windows reliably.

Posted: **Mon Aug 29, 2022 6:21 am**

I am still running an old Dell Latitude D830 with Mx Linux 19.4 & my build own pc desktop with Intel Core i7 920 x58 chipset on KDE 21.1 & Win 10 dual boot. My desktop maybe on the way out unless I can solve potential overheating. * I suspect the Nvidia GTS 250 card. These are from 2005 - 2009 era. I am doing my darnest to squeeze the life out of them. lol Not looking forward to upgrade, but that will come for sure when Win 10 dies in Oct 2025 since I can't udate to WIn 11 which officially launched last Oct 2021.

Posted: **Wed Oct 11, 2023 12:00 pm**

I now have it on and old 2008ish Macbook Pro.

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2024 9:16 am**

I have a 2008 Acer Aspire 5315 running MX 23.2 KDE. 1.73GHz Celeron and 2GB RAM. It actually does quite well.

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2024 10:05 am**

I still have a running Dell Inspiron 9400 laptop (the actual year and model number have worn off the bottom) with a T2500 2 Ghz Centrino Duo Processor, I believe this was the first 2 core Dell laptop and it was sadly still only 32bit. When I bought it new I spent way too much money on a 1920x1200 screen option but to be honest I never regretted it, it's still a better screen than most mid-level laptops. I upgraded the RAM to 2Gb several years ago and put a Samsung EVO 250Gb SSD.. It's currently running an MX-21 base with Enlightenment..

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2024 2:27 pm**

Yes, still using the 2012 Dell Precision WorkStation T3500.

Posted: **Sun Nov 17, 2024 7:45 pm**

piperdan wrote: Tue Jul 26, 2022 12:11 am Old-ish retired engineer here. Was sitting in a meeting where I brought my old battle-scarred, heavy, and very solid 10 year old Dell Latitude E6430, while surrounded by others with mostly sleek macbooks and one Dell XPS. They looked at my laptop with a "does that thing still work?" look, while MX Linux fired up very quickly and very snappy with its SSD drive and 16G ram, and its built like a tank. It was a fun experience, kind of like driving up to a group of Tesla's with a '57 Chevy. Granted, my battery doesn't last as long and the display is nowhere near a retina display. Still, with XFCE themed out just like I like it, and as snappy as it is, its awesome.

Dell Latitude 7280
Intel i5-7300U
upgraded from 8GB RAM to 16GB ram
upgraded to 1TB NVME SSD

To me, this is not an 'old' laptop (by my definition), but to many it will be. The battery life is less than 5mins now. If I ever settle on a decent non-Dell battery manufacturer I can trust, then I will replace the battery. I have dropped the laptop more than once (mostly snagging cable-related accidents) and it has survived (no broken hinges, etc.), which has been a very different experience to some other laptops I have used. Good enough for me.

Posted: **Mon Nov 18, 2024 5:16 am**

HP T520 thin client- 1.2GHz dual core, 4GB DDR3, 16GB M2 SSD

Posted: **Mon Nov 18, 2024 7:23 am**

Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. U180 (it's a netbook, IIRC released circa 2011)
memory 2.0 GiB (maxed
processor Intel® Atom™ N2600 × 4
disk 320.1 GB

Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) (actually MX 23.4) 64bit

BIOS: American Megatrends v: EN082IMS.10H date: 04/25/2012

.... and still going (fairly) strong, though not very fast

Posted: **Sun Dec 22, 2024 8:39 am**

Hi, have the same netbook (U180), just installed the latest 64-bit version of the mx linux, and have a blank screen after the text part of booting, did you have any problems and maybe already fixes?

Posted: **Sun Dec 22, 2024 10:12 am**

I now have MX Fluxbox running on a converted Toshiba Chromebook of about 2014 vintage - Celeron processor - 2GB DDR3 ram - 16GB eMMC disk.

Posted: **Sun Dec 22, 2024 10:34 am**

SoNick_RND wrote: Sun Dec 22, 2024 8:39 am Hi, have the same netbook (U180), just installed the latest 64-bit version of the mx linux, and have a blank screen after the text part of booting, did you have any problems and maybe already fixes?

You should start your own thread in the MX Help section of the forums.

Posted: **Sun Dec 22, 2024 11:44 am**

Sony Vaio VPC-Z13Z9E (i7, FHD, MX-23 Respin "extrox")
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-So ... 351.0.html

Switched from modern CHUWI GemiBook. Headphone volume capacity very bigger than GamiBook, Good to Listening.
Keyboard good, fine layout. Display good, 97.2% sRGB.

A part of old machines are high cost made, In general modern-time machine less cost.

Posted: **Sun Dec 22, 2024 1:08 pm**

Lenovo T500 laptop running MX 23-4. Works great.

Posted: **Sun Dec 22, 2024 9:57 pm**

The ASUS X42D in my signature is from 2011. I don't use it much as it's just a backup laptop, but recently I replaced the Solus that was on it with a snapshot of the MX23 on my newer laptop [the Clevo that's also in my signature]. I'd gone a year plus without upgrading the Solus rolling install, and so the attempted massive upgrade went badly and showed up too many errors.

MX23 works fine but Firefox is slow on it. Since the lappy is only for emergencies, I'm not complaining.

The ASUS is a dualboot and the other distro is the now EOL MX19 that I couldn't bring myself to delete.

Posted: **Mon Dec 23, 2024 12:05 am**

@SoNick_RND
On the U180 netbook:
what works for me:
When the boot sequence fails to complete, press Fn + F12.
Netbook goes into suspend, use the power switch (left side) to wake.
You might get a crazy colour scheme, Fix it by going to tty1: press ctrl+alt+F1, and then ctrl+alt+F7

HTH,
Mike

P.S. Dunno why this works, not a HW person...
P.P.S. apologies for being OT

Posted: **Mon Dec 23, 2024 2:09 am**

txm0523 wrote: Sun Dec 22, 2024 1:08 pm Lenovo T500 laptop running MX 23-4. Works great.

My daily driver is a Lenovo T440p running DO's sysvinit-only MX-23 respin. I've also got MX-23 on a T450 and around here somewhere is a T410 with a broken screen I really should get repaired to see what was on that when I dropped it.

(That was a really sad story. The T410 was my previous daily driver for years and ran Linux far better than it ran FreeBSD. In a hurry one morning to get to a meeting at work I pulled my bag out of the trunk of my car and swung it over my arm, dumping my laptop out of it. It crashed onto the pavement of the parking garage. I scooped it up in a panic and rushed to my meeting which was, in retrospect, absolutely not worth the hustle. The only damage to the T410 was a pushed-in corner that cosmetically deformed the plastic a little bit.

Then, months later, I was walking across my living room with it and it slipped out of my hands. It landed on the carpeted floor with a thud and that was what killed it. Goes to show you never can tell.)

Posted: **Fri Jan 03, 2025 10:07 am**

I like using sometime my old and small eepc MSI U123 (under MX19x32 (buster + extended-lts buster-lts) & IceWM, and zswap.enabled=1, and Palemoon or Fireox-esr ... it is still working fine (except the battery which is now KO)

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$ quick-system-info-mx
Snapshot created on: 20230501_0204
System:
  Kernel: 6.6.69-amd64-i386-x86-32--486dx arch: i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc
    v: 8.3.0 clocksource: hpet avail: acpi_pm
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.6.69-amd64-i386-x86-32--486dx
    root=UUID=<filter> ro audit=0
    mitigations=auto ipv6.disable=1 selinux=0 zswap.enabled=1
    zswap.compressor=zstd zswap.max_pool_percent=25 zswap.zpool=zsmalloc
    quiet
  Desktop: IceWM v: 3.6.0 tools: xautolock,xfce4-screensaver
    avail: i3lock,slock,xscreensaver vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.26.0
    Distro: MX-TOF-19.4_386 patito feo mai 01 2023 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10
    (buster)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: MICRO-STAR product: MS-N033 v: Ver.001
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: MICRO-STAR model: U-123 v: Ver.001 serial: <superuser required>
    uuid: <superuser required> BIOS: American Megatrends v: 4.6.3
    date: 05/06/2010
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Atom N280 bits: 32 type: MT arch: Bonnell built: 2008-13
    process: Intel 45nm family: 6 model-id: 0x1C (28) stepping: 2
    microcode: 0x218
  Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 1 cores: 1 threads: 2 tpc: 2
    smt: enabled cache: L1: 56 KiB desc: d-1x24 KiB; i-1x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB
    desc: 1x512 KiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1423 min/max: 1000/1667 scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq
    governor: ondemand cores: 1: 1423 2: 1423 bogomips: 6668
  Flags: ht nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass status: Not affected
  Type: spectre_v1 status: Not affected
  Type: spectre_v2 status: Not affected
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Mobile 945GSE Express Integrated Graphics
    vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: i915 v: kernel alternate: intelfb
    arch: Gen-3.5 process: Intel 90nm built: 2005-06 ports: active: LVDS-1
    empty: VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:27ae class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Acer BisonCam NB Pro 1300 driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 2-5:6 chip-ID: 5986:0203
    class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.10 driver: X: loaded: intel
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: i915 gpu: i915 display-ID: :0
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1024x600 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 270x158mm (10.63x6.22")
    s-diag: 313mm (12.32")
  Monitor-1: LVDS-1 mapped: LVDS1 model: Chungwa Picture Tubes 0x04c4
    built: 2009 res: 1024x600 hz: 60 dpi: 113 gamma: 1.2
    size: 230x140mm (9.06x5.51") diag: 269mm (10.6") ratio: 15:9, 16:9
    modes: 1024x600
  API: OpenGL v: 1.4 vendor: intel mesa v: 20.3.5 glx-v: 1.4 es-v: 2.0
    direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945GME x86/MMX/SSE2
    device-ID: 8086:27ae memory: 187.5 MiB unified: yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio
    vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
    chip-ID: 8086:27d8 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.6.69-amd64-i386-x86-32--486dx status: kernel-api
    tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PulseAudio v: 12.2 status: active
    tools: pacat,pactl,pamixer,pavucontrol
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: d000
    bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8136 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR928X Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: AzureWave AW-NE771 802.11bgn driver: ath9k v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:002a class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-2: virbr0-nic state: down mac: <filter>
  Info: services: NetworkManager, ntpd, smbd, sshd, wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Micro Star Bluetooth EDR Device driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
    rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 5-1:3 chip-ID: 0db0:a97a
    class-ID: e001
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 2.1
    lmp-v: 4 sub-v: 12e7 hci-v: 4 rev: 12e7 class-ID: c010c
  Info: acl-mtu: 310:10 sco-mtu: 64:8 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff park
    link-mode: slave accept service-classes: rendering, capturing
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 111.79 GiB used: 35.86 GiB (32.1%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: PNY model: 120GB SATA SSD
    size: 111.79 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 1.5 Gb/s
    tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 8A0 scheme: MBR
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 108.78 GiB size: 106.51 GiB (97.92%)
    used: 35.86 GiB (33.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 5 (default 60) cache-pressure: 50 (default 100)
    zswap: yes compressor: zstd max-pool: 25%
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 2.81 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Repos:
  Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 2870 libs: 1329
    tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,synaptic pm: rpm pkgs: 0 pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix-kernel-tmp.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
    2: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/extended-lts.list
    1: deb http://deb.freexian.com/extended-lts buster-lts main contrib non-free
    2: deb http://deb.freexian.com/extended-lts buster main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mozilla.list
    1: deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/packages.mozilla.org.asc] https://packages.mozilla.org/apt mozilla main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
    1: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
    2: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster ahs
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
Info:
  Memory: total: N/A available: 1.94 GiB used: 842.4 MiB (42.3%)
  Processes: 207 Power: uptime: 1h 54m states: freeze,standby,mem,disk
    suspend: deep avail: s2idle,shallow wakeups: 1 hibernate: platform
    avail: shutdown, reboot, suspend, test_resume image: 758.1 MiB
    services: upowerd,xfce4-power-manager Init: SysVinit v: 3.10 runlevel: 5
    default: graphical tool: systemctl
  Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 Shell: quick-system-in default: Bash v: 5.0.3
    running-in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.3.36

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Posted: **Sun Feb 02, 2025 12:44 pm**

Compaq Presario CQ71. Dual core, 3gb ram, legacy nvidia drivers. Installed the 64b flubox edition. Then i installed my favorite xfce desktop. I use this laptop mainly for writing (and listening to music).
i also had some very successful sessions with this laptop, trying to create and set up a wordpress blog for a friend (with basic photo editing on the fly).

Posted: **Sun Feb 02, 2025 2:21 pm**

I have mx23.5 running on a asus 1015pe netbook. Its a little slow @ 1.66ghz and 2 gb ram, but still workable.

Posted: **Sun Feb 02, 2025 2:45 pm**

mx23.5 on a Lenovo T470 here

Posted: **Sun Feb 02, 2025 4:10 pm**

Intel Core2 Duo E7500, Radeon HD 7470/8470 / R5 235/310, 1.93 GiB DDR3 single stick, spinning drive on KDE 23.3.

Posted: **Sat Feb 22, 2025 10:26 am**

Currently running 23.5 on a 2007 Macbook Pro 17" (3,1 and typing this on it) with 6GB RAM, and a 2009 white Macbook 5,2 with 2GB (one slot dead). Also my backup desktop is a 2011 Mac Mini with 16GB RAM and a 2GHz 8-thread i7, and that runs really well. Main desktop is (for the moment) Win 11, but if MS turn the screws on unsupported machines once Win 10 is killed off, then MX will become my default system. That's an i7-4790 with 32GB RAM, and smokes any OS.
Apart from the wallpaper problem, all is well.
Have tried MX on every Mac I've recently had, and it always works well.

Posted: **Mon Apr 21, 2025 3:22 pm**

Writing this from a 2014 HP 355 G2. I have another laptop, the first one I ever installed Linux on (MX of course) and that's a 2007 Fujitsu-Siemens. Works splendidly.

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