MX Linux Forum

Posted: **Tue Mar 25, 2025 3:43 pm**

Hello world,

I am brand new to the linux world and researched quite a bit so that I want MX Linux to be my first.
So I looked around and found out that the kernel should have "most" drivers for hardware already implemented. Also I should be able to make an usb stick with rufus and an MX-Linux iso file to test it before completely switching to linux.
But I want to asked you: Is it possible on an website to look at the hardware configurations that simply works stable on linux? And does my hardware here work?

Another qeustion: Before I commit I will read the manual and FAQ´s but I want to ask this because I simply must...: I started to really hate windows so I will work a lot to get my ass into linux but how is it for an inexperienced linux user like myself can I get an
-simple OS with the ability to play atleast "some" games (Steam/Proton.db I know of it)
-simple to maintain (updates)
-stable
-Configurable enough so that I can play around with windows exclusive software?

It will take a lot of time for me to get accoustomed to linux I think... It seems like possible that my backed up data (mp4´s and so on) will be readible (NTFS) under linux and I have much much more research to do before I think I have an "good" configured linux on my pc´s but I think that will be worth it. My goal is to be completely independent from Microsoft. I am also willing to restrict my gaming experience for it... it shouldnt hurt "to much" I hope...

Sorry for this first wall-of-text like message and I hope I am in the right thread... and thank you for any answers whatsoever in advance.

Have a nice evening/morning

Sincerely,
Noax

EDIT: I also have DDR5 ram in the above mentioned config... does it work?

Posted: **Tue Mar 25, 2025 4:03 pm**

Welcome In!

So.. the short version. Yes, the RTX and i7-12700K will work. ( I run an RTX 2060 and i7-14700K , twin large nvme's and DDR5 ram and it runs awesome!)

The long version... motherboard, cards / controllers will *ALL* affect how / what will run.. so ... liveUSB up and test it out!

Using ntfs drives is not preferred and can lead to some issues. But.. typically you can install to a different drive, then copy over what you need / want, reformat that ntfs to an ext4 and then put your data back and all will be good.

I strongly suggest that you create a machine, bring it all up the way you want it. Check out the tutorials etc and learn how MX works, get comfortable with linux too.. and as yo do this you will learn how to make it all work for you. Backing up, which applications, etc etc.

Posted: **Tue Mar 25, 2025 4:12 pm**

Thanks for this really quick answer.

So in reference with ntfs: Can I, because I intend to "clean install" MX Linux, completely format my 3 drives (2 x 1TB 970 Evo+ nvme from Samsung + 2TB HDD) in ext4 then put the needed "plugins" in my system and copy all of my data from the external NTFS HDD to my internal drives then formatted in ext4?

Posted: **Tue Mar 25, 2025 4:25 pm**

I suggest that you boot into a live session of MX, go to MX Tools --> Quick System Info, run this utility, click on Copy For Forum at the bottom and then paste the results here in your thread. Once we have that information available, we will be in a better position to answer your questions.

Posted: **Tue Mar 25, 2025 4:46 pm**

Yes, when I am on my other Pc I will do that (currently sleeping in my other apartment because of work) - thank you for your answer.

But my qeustion in post 3 is a more "general" one. I am currently researching ways to become my many TB of data safe and functioning on an ext4 ("best" file system for flexibility - as I researched) from an an NTFS HDD. And I seem like to not understand it very well. Is it so easy like installing (or is it preinstalled?) Ntfs-3g and plug the HDD in and copy all over and be happy with my videos and other data? Can I reliably copy data from my work PC (it will stay on Windows for the unforseeable future) to my Linux systems?

Essenially I want to know can I get data from NTFS <--> to ext4.

Posted: **Tue Mar 25, 2025 5:17 pm**

Noax wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 4:46 pm Yes, when I am on my other Pc I will do that (currently sleeping in my other apartment because of work) - thank you for your answer.

But my qeustion in post 3 is a more "general" one. I am currently researching ways to become my many TB of data safe and functioning on an ext4 ("best" file system for flexibility - as I researched) from an an NTFS HDD. And I seem like to not understand it very well. Is it so easy like installing (or is it preinstalled?) Ntfs-3g and plug the HDD in and copy all over and be happy with my videos and other data? Can I reliably copy data from my work PC (it will stay on Windows for the unforseeable future) to my Linux systems?

Essenially I want to know can I get data from NTFS <--> to ext4?

If you are going to continue accessing the drive from windows too, then you may want to keep it in ntfs. This is where having a shared area might be good. Connected to windows, shared to your 'network' and pick up data from it via network shares.

Locally, Linux can access the ntfs drive, but it will be better to have it in ext4. Windows, obviously prefers ntfs. The question is what your really after for the external drive? Backups? data sharing?

And if both windows and linux are going to access it.. then personally I would setup a samba share on the linux side and get data from that share ... from windows. (especially if your primary computer will be the linux. And or you want to change to linux.)

Posted: **Tue Mar 25, 2025 5:26 pm**

Noax wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 4:46 pm Essenially I want to know can I get data from NTFS <--> to ext4?

Per: https://overflow.freedit.eu/exchange/un ... s-can-work
Essentially, Yes.

The file content will be the same after copying from ext4 to NTFS.

But the permissions and ownership are often modified.

If the performance depends on permissions or ownership, there might be problems after copying.

There may be protection against executing programs from an external drive.

If you try to use the file in the other operative system (Windows), you cannot expect an executable file or symbolic link to work, but data files, for example documents, pictures and video clips can be expected to work.

And per: viewtopic.php?p=810542#p810542
Again permissions and/or ownership could be potential pitfalls, but not likely for data files - so I'd do it, and don't worry about it.

Also, with 2TB, you could create a small NTFS partition if needed that would be accessible by both windows and linux.
And/or a separate DATA partition, symlinked to you home folder; when installing choose something else, or separate partitions, whatever it reads.

Good Luck

Posted: **Tue Mar 25, 2025 5:33 pm**

So I reasearched a bit more and found out with rsync its possible to copy. But that should be slow and I have TB of data soo not very good... and I have red tons of forums with "format from ntfs to ext4 without data loss" many of them listed an software that you should buy to simply format it to ext4 (for example https://partedmagic.com/store/).

One last 2 forums in ubuntu (yes MX is debian based) said thats as easy as to mount the ntfs and copy all over to ext4.

Whats your opinion about it? Can I take my data with me (transfer with apropriate speed to an internal SDD/HDD) or should I consider buying software or can I say all of my windows data goodbye forever?
Its a bit late here I will now go to bed. Please excuse me for my selfishness. Thats really "work" for me to research all this kind of things. But thats what has to be done when Microsoft isnt the option any more hmm...

Good Night
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Again thanks for your answer CharlesV.

So my plan is to have always an external HDD drive in NTFS because I will pick up data on it and I want to copy this data to my internal ext4 SSD/HDD´s. And that in an reliably way with apropriate speed. When I read that I should use network tools or so then I think of rsync? Its that what you mean? That should be really slow with big files (some files are more tzhen 10Gb´s big).

You wrote "Locally, Linux can access the ntfs drive, but it will be better to have it in ext4." and yes I will respect the preferred file system that linux need, nonetheless, as I said, I need an reliably way with apropriate speed to simply transfer files from NTFS to ext4. And possible from ext4 to NTFS. Is that possible?

Posted: **Tue Mar 25, 2025 5:38 pm**

MXRobo wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 5:26 pm
Noax wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 4:46 pm Essenially I want to know can I get data from NTFS <--> to ext4?
Per: https://overflow.freedit.eu/exchange/un ... s-can-work
Essentially, Yes.
The file content will be the same after copying from ext4 to NTFS.

But the permissions and ownership are often modified.

If the performance depends on permissions or ownership, there might be problems after copying.

There may be protection against executing programs from an external drive.

If you try to use the file in the other operative system (Windows), you cannot expect an executable file or symbolic link to work, but data files, for example documents, pictures and video clips can be expected to work.
And per: viewtopic.php?p=810542#p810542
Again permissions and/or ownership could be potential pitfalls, but not likely for data files - so I'd do it, and don't worry about it.

Also, with 2TB, you could create a small NTFS partition if needed that would be accessible by both windows and linux.
And/or a separate DATA partition, symlinked to you home folder; when installing choose something else, or separate partitions, whatever it reads.

Good Luck

Also thanks for your answer. So I red the linked forum and I dont know yet what "symlinks" and others are but I gathered that it should be "fine" from ext4 to NTFS but is it also possible to copy from NTFS to ext4, for example an mp4, mkv or mpeg data and look these videos on linux or not? All these forums irritated me a bit... I think I should get a good night of sleep... Sorry.

It seems like its not as easy as "to mount the external NTFS, click on all the data I want, press strg+c and copy all over with strg+v". Is it?

Posted: **Tue Mar 25, 2025 6:22 pm**

Noax wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 5:33 pm So I reasearched a bit more and found out with rsync its possible to copy. But that should be slow and I have TB of data soo not very good... and I have red tons of forums with "format from ntfs to ext4 without data loss" many of them listed an software that you should buy to simply format it to ext4

One last 2 forums in ubuntu (yes MX is debian based) said thats as easy as to mount the ntfs and copy all over to ext4.

You're falling into analysis paralysis and getting distracted by reading about rsync and partition managers.

Your external hard drive is just like any other storage device. And NTFS is just like any other file system. Yes, there are differences and they may be important later, but for now just think about NTFS as a way to store files on a disk. Another way to store files on a disk is FAT32. Windows understands both.

Can you copy files from a FAT32 external hard drive to a Windows machine running NTFS? Yes. There's no hand-wringing involved. You have a disk with files on it. You have another disk with files on it. You copy the files from one disk to the other. You don't have to get fancy with it.

OK. Why does that work? It works because your machine understands how to read and write files on an NTFS volume, and on a FAT32 volume. If you had an NTFS disk and an QMZPJFS disk it would be another story, but that's not the case here.

Copying data between A and B is purely a matter of asking if the machine understands how to read and write A and B.

You know MX Linux understands ext4. And you know MX Linux understands NTFS. Therefore, you can stop doing frivolous research on the matter and move on.

Posted: **Tue Mar 25, 2025 6:32 pm**

DukeComposed wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 6:22 pm
Noax wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 5:33 pm So I reasearched a bit more and found out with rsync its possible to copy. But that should be slow and I have TB of data soo not very good... and I have red tons of forums with "format from ntfs to ext4 without data loss" many of them listed an software that you should buy to simply format it to ext4

One last 2 forums in ubuntu (yes MX is debian based) said thats as easy as to mount the ntfs and copy all over to ext4.
You're falling into analysis paralysis and getting distracted by reading about rsync and partition managers.

Your external hard drive is just like any other storage device. And NTFS is just like any other file system. Yes, there are differences and they may be important later, but for now just think about NTFS as a way to store files on a disk. Another way to store files on a disk is FAT32. Windows understands both.

Can you copy files from a FAT32 external hard drive to a Windows machine running NTFS? Yes. There's no hand-wringing involved. You have a disk with files on it. You have another disk with files on it. You copy the files from one disk to the other. You don't have to get fancy with it.

OK. Why does that work? It works because your machine understands how to read and write files on an NTFS volume, and on a FAT32 volume. If you had an NTFS disk and an QMZPJFS disk it would be another story, but that's not the case here.

Copying data between A and B is purely a matter of asking if the machine understands how to read and write A and B.

You know MX Linux understands ext4. And you know MX Linux understands NTFS. Therefore, you can stop doing frivolous research on the matter and move on.

Thats just what I needed. As stupid as it sounds but I have an tendency to hang too long on many such things.
It should be so as you said. With the help of ntfs-3g linux is able to understand both filesystems so I should stop whining and move on.
That should be the reason why I dont found an answer that pleased me... because its that simple and I hung myself up with it.
As long as I can copy my data over with the normal (20-40 mb´s) it should be fine.

Next monday I am finally home and can begin with the "Live MX Linux" test from the stick.
Then I will also post the Quick System Info and again ask about any compatibility issues or other kinds of things that I should be aware of.

Thank you all again for your answers.
I will now go to sleep (finally).

Good night

Posted: **Mon Mar 31, 2025 2:08 pm**

Hello world,

I am now on an live system from an USB Stick.

Here are my system specs

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Snapshot created on: 20250318_1840
System:
  Kernel: 6.1.0-32-amd64 [6.1.129-1] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/antiX/vmlinuz quiet splasht nosplash failsafe nomodeset
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.20.0 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.38 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm v: 4.20.0 vt: 7
    dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: MX-23.5_x64 Libretto March 18  2025 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12
    (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: Z690 AORUS PRO v: -CF serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Gigabyte model: Z690 AORUS PRO serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends
    LLC. v: F8e date: 03/14/2022
CPU:
  Info: model: 12th Gen Intel Core i7-12700K bits: 64 type: MST AMCP arch: Alder Lake gen: core 12
    level: v3 note: check built: 2021+ process: Intel 7 (10nm ESF) family: 6 model-id: 0x97 (151)
    stepping: 2 microcode: 0x1A
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 12 mt: 8 tpc: 2 st: 4 threads: 20 smt: enabled cache: L1: 1024 KiB
    desc: d-4x32 KiB, 8x48 KiB; i-8x32 KiB, 4x64 KiB L2: 12 MiB desc: 8x1.2 MiB, 1x2 MiB L3: 25 MiB
    desc: 1x25 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4900:5000:3800 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
    governor: powersave cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 9: 800 10: 800
    11: 800 12: 800 13: 800 14: 800 15: 800 16: 800 17: 800 18: 800 19: 800 20: 800
    bogomips: 144383
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  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: Vulnerable: No microcode
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS; IBPB: conditional; RSB filling;
    PBRSB-eIBRS: SW sequence; BHI: SW loop, KVM: SW loop
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel AlderLake-S GT1 vendor: Gigabyte driver: N/A alternate: i915 bus-ID: 00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:4680 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA GA104 [GeForce RTX 3070 Lite Hash Rate] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: N/A
    alternate: nouveau non-free: 530.xx+ status: current (as of 2023-03) arch: Ampere code: GAxxx
    process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-22 pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:2488 class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 compositor: xfwm v: 4.20.0 driver: X: loaded: N/A
    unloaded: fbdev dri: swrast gpu: N/A display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1440x900 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 381x238mm (15.00x9.37") s-diag: 449mm (17.69")
  Monitor-1: default res: 1440x900 hz: 77 size: N/A modes: N/A
  API: OpenGL v: 4.5 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.6 256 bits) direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-S HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    bus-ID: 1-12.2:8 chip-ID: 1532:0504 alternate: snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
    class-ID: 0300 chip-ID: 8086:7ad0 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA GA104 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228b class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: Razer USA Kraken 7.1 Chroma type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
  Device-4: Giga-Byte USB Audio type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 1-4:2
    chip-ID: 0414:a012 class-ID: 0300
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-32-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I225-V vendor: Gigabyte driver: igc v: kernel pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: N/A bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:15f3 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel modules: wl pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-14:12 chip-ID: 8087:0029
    class-ID: e001
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 3.0 lmp-v: 5.2
    sub-v: 200f hci-v: 5.2 rev: 200f
  Info: acl-mtu: 1021:4 sco-mtu: 96:6 link-policy: rswitch sniff link-mode: peripheral accept
    service-classes: rendering, capturing, object transfer, audio, telephony
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 3.75 TiB used: 2.21 GiB (0.1%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 980 PRO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB
    block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
    rev: 5B2QGXA7 temp: 31.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 maj-min: 259:1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 980 PRO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB
    block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
    rev: 5B2QGXA7 temp: 30.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-3: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST2000DM008-2UB102 size: 1.82 TiB
    block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter>
    rev: 0001 scheme: GPT
  ID-4: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: USB 3.2Gen1 size: 114.61 GiB
    block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR
  SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Partition:
  Message: No partition data found.
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 19.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
  Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 2133 libs: 1065 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,nala,synaptic pm: rpm
    pkgs: 0 pm: flatpak pkgs: 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 bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
    1: deb http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/mxlinux/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
Info:
  Processes: 401 Uptime: 1m wakeups: 1 Memory: 31.12 GiB used: 1.35 GiB (4.3%) Init: SysVinit
  v: 3.06 runlevel: 5 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12
  Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: UEFI
Video Tweaks:
Detected possible Hybrid Graphics

I will now proceed to try and install it.

When I encounter problems I would love to here from you guys again.
Thank you in advance.

Posted: **Mon Mar 31, 2025 8:10 pm**

So. I installed it and it seems like it runs well atm.

Only some errors at startup with words like "logo" failed to load and so on came up. These are normal atm, or?

And some days in the future I want to switch to linux for my secondary pc and the laptop from my father too. These will need drivers for the EPSON printers XP-412 and SX130.
These 2 drivers (+ scanner) are available as an .deb package from the EPSON site. So I think I will be alright in that regard too?

I already fiddled with the system and I even can start some old windows only games without too much trouble. Only "Bottles" didnt work for me but Steam (proton) and Litrus+Wine worked just fine for some games.
That I can play old Windows games on this OS seems wonderful to me :)

Thank you in advance for your answers.

Posted: **Mon Mar 31, 2025 10:48 pm**

Please post your QSI. ( MX Menu, Quick System Info, Copy for Forum, Paste here )

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 5:43 am**

Thanks for the answer.

Here, thats should it be

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Snapshot created on: 20250318_1840
System:
  Kernel: 6.1.0-32-amd64 [6.1.129-1] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-32-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet nomodeset splash
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.20.0 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.38 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm v: 4.20.0 vt: 7
    dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: MX-23.5_x64 Libretto March 18  2025 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12
    (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: Z690 AORUS PRO v: -CF serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Gigabyte model: Z690 AORUS PRO serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends
    LLC. v: F8e date: 03/14/2022
CPU:
  Info: model: 12th Gen Intel Core i7-12700K bits: 64 type: MST AMCP arch: Alder Lake gen: core 12
    level: v3 note: check built: 2021+ process: Intel 7 (10nm ESF) family: 6 model-id: 0x97 (151)
    stepping: 2 microcode: 0x38
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 12 mt: 8 tpc: 2 st: 4 threads: 20 smt: enabled cache: L1: 1024 KiB
    desc: d-4x32 KiB, 8x48 KiB; i-8x32 KiB, 4x64 KiB L2: 12 MiB desc: 8x1.2 MiB, 1x2 MiB L3: 25 MiB
    desc: 1x25 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4900:5000:3800 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
    governor: powersave cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 9: 800 10: 800
    11: 800 12: 800 13: 800 14: 800 15: 800 16: 800 17: 800 18: 800 19: 800 20: 800
    bogomips: 144383
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  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 mitigation: Clear Register File
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS; IBPB: conditional; RSB filling;
    PBRSB-eIBRS: SW sequence; BHI: BHI_DIS_S
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel AlderLake-S GT1 vendor: Gigabyte driver: N/A alternate: i915 bus-ID: 00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:4680 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA GA104 [GeForce RTX 3070 Lite Hash Rate] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: nvidia
    v: 535.216.01 non-free: 530.xx+ status: current (as of 2023-03) arch: Ampere code: GAxxx
    process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-22 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4
    speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2488 class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9 compositor: xfwm v: 4.20.0
    driver: X: loaded: nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa alternate: nv gpu: nvidia
    display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1440 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 678x382mm (26.69x15.04") s-diag: 778mm (30.64")
  Monitor-1: DP-0 res: 2560x1440 hz: 60 dpi: 105 size: 621x341mm (24.45x13.43")
    diag: 708mm (27.89") modes: N/A
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 535.216.01 renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070/PCIe/SSE2
    direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-S HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 1-12.2:8
    v: kernel chip-ID: 1532:0504 alternate: snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl class-ID: 0300 bus-ID: 00:1f.3
    chip-ID: 8086:7ad0 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA GA104 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228b class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: Razer USA Kraken 7.1 Chroma type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
  Device-4: Giga-Byte USB Audio type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 1-4:2
    chip-ID: 0414:a012 class-ID: 0300
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-32-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I225-V vendor: Gigabyte driver: igc v: kernel pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: N/A bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:15f3 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel modules: wl pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-14:9 chip-ID: 8087:0029
    class-ID: e001
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 3.0 lmp-v: 5.2
    sub-v: 200f hci-v: 5.2 rev: 200f
  Info: acl-mtu: 1021:4 sco-mtu: 96:6 link-policy: rswitch sniff link-mode: peripheral accept
    service-classes: rendering, capturing, object transfer, audio, telephony
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 3.64 TiB used: 1.8 TiB (49.3%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 980 PRO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB
    block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
    rev: 5B2QGXA7 temp: 35.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 maj-min: 259:1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 980 PRO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB
    block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
    rev: 5B2QGXA7 temp: 35.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-3: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST2000DM008-2UB102 size: 1.82 TiB
    block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter>
    rev: 0001 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 279.38 GiB size: 273.93 GiB (98.05%) used: 22.53 GiB (8.2%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:4
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 256 MiB size: 252 MiB (98.46%) used: 274 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:3
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 651.88 GiB size: 640.58 GiB (98.27%) used: 27.72 GiB (4.3%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:5
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 6 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /swap/swap
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 21.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 39 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0%
Repos:
  Packages: 2473 pm: dpkg pkgs: 2459 libs: 1324 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,nala,synaptic pm: rpm
    pkgs: 0 pm: flatpak pkgs: 14
  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 bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
    1: deb http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/mxlinux/packages/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
Info:
  Processes: 415 Uptime: 4m wakeups: 1 Memory: 31.12 GiB used: 3.41 GiB (11.0%) Init: SysVinit
  v: 3.06 runlevel: 5 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12
  Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: UEFI

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 7:25 am**

if some windows apps dont run under linux (which is expected) just install VMware workstation on linux and run windows in an VM as guest. that way you can fool around as much as you want and never break or mess up your linux host system. VMware workstation is free and highly recommended :-)

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 11:10 am**

Noax wrote: Mon Mar 31, 2025 8:10 pm So. I installed it and it seems like it runs well atm.

Only some errors at startup with words like "logo" failed to load and so on came up. These are normal atm, or?

And some days in the future I want to switch to linux for my secondary pc and the laptop from my father too. These will need drivers for the EPSON printers XP-412 and SX130.
These 2 drivers (+ scanner) are available as an .deb package from the EPSON site. So I think I will be alright in that regard too?

I already fiddled with the system and I even can start some old windows only games without too much trouble. Only "Bottles" didnt work for me but Steam (proton) and Litrus+Wine worked just fine for some games.
That I can play old Windows games on this OS seems wonderful to me :)

Thank you in advance for your answers.

I run a Z790 AERO and it runs WAY better on a Liquorix 6.12.x kernel. When you get all settled in, I would strongly suggest trying it out. Also, check the AHS repo in MX Repo Manager and then do an update and upgrade - there are a few later drivers that are good to have on board.

If you downloaded your drivers from here ( https://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/sear ... ch/?OSC=LX ) then yes, they should be the best ones.

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 12:06 pm**

Thank you again so much for your help!

So in order to do an kernel and AHS upgrade I have to klick through the following 2 installations right?
I want to ask so that I hopefully not break my system (again... last night I fiddled so much that my games wasnt working anymore so I reset the system...):

Can I do it in any order?
How do I "activate the AHS updates for automatic updates"?

In the following the picture:

EDIT: And last question: Do I have to take all my tinker steps again for some of my games or will the system settle itself with an kernel upgrade and not break my steam and lutris+wine configurations? When yes is it not better to simply start from an scratch OS installation? I have more than an handfull of packages installed to get wine+lutris atleast semi working (roughly 70% or so from my games that I tried worked)

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 12:59 pm**

So, first off ... I would suggest that you get timeshift setup and use it before any / all upgrades. I personally dont use the timeshift scheduler, but I have a cron job that runs timeshift every night - and then I run timeshift before ANY upgrades / tweaks to my system. ( imo ... this is the only method to guarantee you can easily rollback .)

Timeshift does NOT do your user/.config area, so you should be backing that up before any tweaking as well ;-/

Yes, I personally would do the updates as follows:
a) Timeshift your system

b) turn on the ahs repo in MX Repo manager and then apt update and apt upgrade

c) Once your all up todate, then I would add a liquorix kernel, reboot and verify you are now running that liquorix kernel. (you can always roll that back too, just boot back to your regular kernel in grub and then MX cleanup to remove the latest kernel - also... I always have at least the previous kernel still loaded and ready on the machine, just in case.)

d)once your back up and working well.. THEN you should see how the games work etc. Most likely, you will probably have to do the tinkering steps again.

And again, imo ... you should add timeshift steps along the way after the above b) c) and during d) steps. Verify your machine appears to be working well.. and then to do a timeshift just in case.

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 1:35 pm**

Good I think I will try that out but before I tinker again (that I will see when I have the new kernel and updates/upgrades) I think I will reinstall this OS completely new and that the kernel upgrade will then be my first step.
I want an clean system that will work from now until 2028 and I dont think thats "easily doable" for and beginner like myself with Kernel Updates in between etc.?. Hopefully by then I have the aptitude to know how to limit the work on an OS upgrade...

Another qeustion: When I break my Wine+Lutris configuration is it possible to remove every last inch of wine+lutris packages and dependencies before I reinstall my OS everytime that happens?^^

EDIT: I think an Timeshift before the tinkering starts would be good in this case?

EDIT 2: Another qeustion: you answered with "b) turn on the ahs repo in MX Repo manager and then apt update and apt upgrade" its the button on the image with ahs, or? just to be sure

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 1:53 pm**

Sorry, yes... mx repo, then Individual Sources and the third mx.list (ends in ahs )

I personally setup timeshift right after installs, and then I do a manual timeshift as I progress through installing things. (I do NOT like bricked systems, and while MX is really good about not doing that... I have had video or other tweaks take me down - so.. timeshift provides me the ability to roll back should I or an update do something to my system.)

For removal... wine and lutris both write configuration down into your user folder, config and local share folders ( ~/.wine, ~/.config/lutris and ~/.local/share/lutris), so you will need to make backup copies of these before you tweak them, and also if you want to remove them you have to do that manually.

To completely remove wine & lutris ...

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sudo apt remove --purge wine 
sudo apt remove --purge winehq-stable
sudo apt remove --purge lutris 
sudo apt autoremove

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rm -rf $~/.wine
rm -rf ~/.config/lutris 
rm -rf ~/.local/share/lutris

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 2:01 pm**

Thank you again for your answers! These will help a lot

So I finished my kernel update but for whatever reason it seems after rebooting I now am running on 6.13.8-4-liquorix-amd64 [6.13-9~mx23ahs] but I have 6.12.17 selected as the picture below it is still selected. Should I go to boot menu and boot in with the other kernel?
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Snapshot created on: 20250318_1840
System:
  Kernel: 6.13.8-4-liquorix-amd64 [6.13-9~mx23ahs] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0 parameters: audit=0
    intel_pstate=disable amd_pstate=disable BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.13.8-4-liquorix-amd64
    root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet nomodeset splash
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.20.0 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.38 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm v: 4.20.0 vt: 7
    dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: MX-23.5_x64 Libretto March 18  2025 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12
    (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: Z690 AORUS PRO v: -CF serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Gigabyte model: Z690 AORUS PRO serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends
    LLC. v: F8e date: 03/14/2022
CPU:
  Info: model: 12th Gen Intel Core i7-12700K bits: 64 type: MST AMCP arch: Alder Lake gen: core 12
    level: v3 note: check built: 2021+ process: Intel 7 (10nm ESF) family: 6 model-id: 0x97 (151)
    stepping: 2 microcode: 0x38
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 12 mt: 8 tpc: 2 st: 4 threads: 20 smt: enabled cache: L1: 1024 KiB
    desc: d-4x32 KiB, 8x48 KiB; i-8x32 KiB, 4x64 KiB L2: 12 MiB desc: 8x1.2 MiB, 1x2 MiB L3: 25 MiB
    desc: 1x25 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1185 high: 3601 min/max: 800/3601 boost: enabled scaling:
    driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: ondemand cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 3601 4: 800 5: 2412 6: 900
    7: 1091 8: 800 9: 800 10: 800 11: 800 12: 800 13: 800 14: 800 15: 800 16: 800 17: 800 18: 900
    19: 3601 20: 800 bogomips: 144383
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  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 mitigation: Clear Register File
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS; IBPB: conditional; RSB filling;
    PBRSB-eIBRS: SW sequence; BHI: BHI_DIS_S
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel AlderLake-S GT1 vendor: Gigabyte driver: N/A alternate: i915, xe bus-ID: 00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:4680 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA GA104 [GeForce RTX 3070 Lite Hash Rate] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: nvidia
    v: 535.216.03 non-free: 530.xx+ status: current (as of 2023-03) arch: Ampere code: GAxxx
    process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-22 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4
    speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2488 class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9 compositor: xfwm v: 4.20.0
    driver: X: loaded: nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa alternate: nv gpu: nvidia
    display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x2160 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1017x572mm (40.04x22.52")
    s-diag: 1167mm (45.94")
  Monitor-1: DP-0 res: 3840x2160 hz: 60 dpi: 157 size: 621x341mm (24.45x13.43")
    diag: 708mm (27.89") modes: N/A
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 535.216.03 renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070/PCIe/SSE2
    direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-S HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 1-12.2:8
    v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_avs,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl chip-ID: 1532:0504 bus-ID: 00:1f.3
    class-ID: 0300 chip-ID: 8086:7ad0 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA GA104 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228b class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: Razer USA Kraken 7.1 Chroma type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
  Device-4: Giga-Byte USB Audio type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 1-4:2
    chip-ID: 0414:a012 class-ID: 0300
  API: ALSA v: k6.13.8-4-liquorix-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I225-V vendor: Gigabyte driver: igc v: kernel pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: N/A bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:15f3 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel modules: wl pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-14:12 chip-ID: 8087:0029
    class-ID: e001
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 3.0 lmp-v: 5.2
    sub-v: 2184 hci-v: 5.2 rev: 2184
  Info: acl-mtu: 1021:4 sco-mtu: 96:6 link-policy: rswitch sniff link-mode: peripheral accept
    service-classes: rendering, capturing, object transfer, audio, telephony
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 3.64 TiB used: 1.94 TiB (53.2%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 980 PRO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB
    block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
    rev: 5B2QGXA7 temp: 36.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 980 PRO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB
    block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
    rev: 5B2QGXA7 temp: 34.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-3: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST2000DM008-2UB102 size: 1.82 TiB
    block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter>
    rev: 0001 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 279.38 GiB size: 273.93 GiB (98.05%) used: 23.71 GiB (8.7%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme1n1p2 maj-min: 259:4
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 256 MiB size: 252 MiB (98.46%) used: 274 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme1n1p1 maj-min: 259:3
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 651.88 GiB size: 640.58 GiB (98.27%) used: 28.82 GiB (4.5%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme1n1p3 maj-min: 259:5
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 6 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /swap/swap
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 28.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 38 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0%
Repos:
  Packages: 2469 pm: dpkg pkgs: 2455 libs: 1308 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,nala,synaptic pm: rpm
    pkgs: 0 pm: flatpak pkgs: 14
  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/ bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
    1: deb http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/mxlinux/packages/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
    2: deb http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/mxlinux/packages/mx/repo/ bookworm ahs
Info:
  Processes: 424 Uptime: 4m wakeups: 1 Memory: 31.13 GiB used: 2.2 GiB (7.1%) Init: SysVinit
  v: 3.06 runlevel: 5 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12
  Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: UEFI

EDIT: With my current wine setup its now possible to run Gothic 2! That helped me a lot^^

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 2:08 pm**

Checking that liquorix 64 (ahs update) means that you will be running the latest Liquorix as it is updated to AHS. Some people prefer to keep a known kernel that works for them, until they are ready to move on. But some folks want the latest - which is what that setting does.. it will keep updating as a newer kernel is put out to the ah repo.

Some people have had trouble with the 6.13.x series, I decided that I would stick with the 6.12.x series until I see how the 6.14 kernel works out.. but that is me, I prefer NOT to be on the bleeding edge :)

If the 6.13 doesnt cause issues, I think that would be just fine.

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 2:47 pm**

So I deinstalled the 6.13 core because I also dont want to be bleeding edge and all of the things I did with the system still functions. + I got Gothic 2 to work. Now I will see how I can integrate Spine in their... but that are luxus problems.
It seems like I can do all the things (except some games) on this new OS like on win and I think that will be our new OS for the future. Only one thing now must work for my father and me so then we are Microsoft free (except for my pc on work...) namely driver for printer. But the site you mentioned is also the site I used so that will hopefully be okay.

I want to let this thread an little bit more open when its okay? In an few weeks I want to have all of our PC`s switched to MX Linux and in these few weeks I think I would like to have this thread for more "beginner" qeustions when needed.

So atlast: I thank you guys (especially CharlesV!) for all of your time that you took and helped me! I think you guys are awesome! :-)

Read you all later
Have a nice week :-)

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 2:52 pm**

Your very welcome! and glad you have a path to what you want. And yup, you can leave the topic open and post back if you need too.

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 3:17 pm**

@CharlesV
I don't know about Epson printers at all, but I thought that perhaps you don't always need to install printer drivers.
Does this do anything, or help - to be ran in terminal as an inquiry, not an active command – in other words, it's safe to do and won't make any modifications.

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apt policy printer-driver-escpr

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apt show printer-driver-escpr

My system is MX-21.3 Xfce, not 23/

Also, @Noax , when you get your system a little more customized and setup, you can make a MX-Snapshot (you can use gtkhash to check the iso checksums), then use MX-Live-USB-Maker to put on a flash drive to install for your father's computer. Don't run MX-Cleaup → Remove unused wifi drivers from the Snapshotted laptop until you have made the MX-Snapshot as it may remove some wifi drivers that are required for a different laptop.

Other experts can comment here, but if you trust your father (and he's not to tech savvy), I think it may be safe to use MX-Snapshot → Personal backup – as opposed to "Resetting accounts"; giving others a Personal backup is not recommended as some personal info could be revealed. Also, it'd depends on how much personal info you have on the laptop, if it's just gaming and not much else, then it's probably not as crucial. The Personal backup retains almost all of you home settings and .configs (including your user name), but your father could either retain and use your user name, or you could use MX User Manager and create anther user for him, also copy or sync some things over to him - just my two cents. Not sure how this works, did only once a few years ago, maybe others can help with this later.
Again, a Personal backup is not recommended for distribution to others. - ??

Also, maybe install, run, and save the file created by User Installed Packages, then use that to transfer the main apt installed files that were on your laptop, to your father's; UIP doesn’t' include flatpaks and some other installed packages.

Cheers!

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2025 3:35 pm**

MXRobo wrote: Tue Apr 01, 2025 3:17 pm @CharlesV
I don't know about Epson printers at all, but I thought that perhaps you don't always need to install printer drivers.
Does this do anything, or help - to be ran in terminal as an inquiry, not an active command – in other words, it's safe to do and won't make any modifications.
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apt policy printer-driver-escpr
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apt show printer-driver-escpr
My system is MX-21.3 Xfce, not 23/

For many Epson printers that will work well.

However, if you have scanning with the printer ( EcoTanks, etc), then that escpr driver is problematic in my experience - sometimes you have a scanner and sometimes you dont. When you search for the printer model in the Epson drivers, it provides both a printer driver as well as scanner driver and the printing / scanning seems to be a little more stable.

Posted: **Wed Apr 02, 2025 11:02 am**

So thank you again for your replies. I will try all that out when I have the most workload from this OS switching from all of our PCś behind me.

So I am trying now to get the Epson SX130 printer to work and succeeded, mostly. I have an aplication named "... utility" for my ink usage and cant bring it to work without booting in systemd. I did that and succeeded but now I am forever bound to the systemd version of MXLinux. I red quite a few notes about systemd and how it afftects the system etc. so 3 qeustions:

Is systemd "bad"?

Will "systemd" be supported in future MXLinux releases?

And can I circumvent systemd to bring this programm to work?
Or is it possible to show me my ink levels without the "... utility" programm and systemd?

One screenshot:

Posted: **Wed Apr 02, 2025 11:25 am**

MX Linux supports BOTH systemd and sysvinit , you can boot to either one in grub. (or choose with MX Boot Options)

No, systemd isnt 'bad' but it is a different method of starting / running Linux - some people dont like it, some people do.

There are a few applications / services that only ship systemd, and many can be setup to run sysvinit with a little work. I have not seen this issue with the EcoTank printers,

and the big question is where you downloaded that utility. Most likely the utility can run under sysvinit, but will nee a little tweaking to the scripts that run it.

Posted: **Wed Apr 02, 2025 11:44 am**

Its the .deb package from https://support.epson.net/linux/Printer ... tility.php

Here is an explanation: https://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/du/0 ... c42717f80a

This utility is in use for an bunch of epson printers.

So I researched now like 4 hours and give up... I cant bring anything (except the utility programm with systemd boot) to work with ink level what we need because on this printer isnt an display...
When you know of a method how to "script" it to ensure it runs without systemd (I already tried to install under systemd boot and switched back but then this programm doesnt work) that would be great

I already tried also the "ink" package to show ink level over terminal input
And "driverless" printer setup over the package "ISP-USB".
Nothing works with ink level without systemd.
I was only able to see my ink level onetime over the package "ink" and couldnt see it with the "driverless" setup.

But all methods are super for simply setup. I printed and scanned in the like first 10 minutes of setting up the printer. Its just this damn ink levels...

EDIT: And I also fiddled a little with WSL but... thats somewhat more complicated I think...

Posted: **Wed Apr 02, 2025 12:28 pm**

Unfortunately I dont have an epson printer here that I can test with, but let me see if I can get a client to let me play a little. ( Might be a couple of day before I can get into one.)

Mainly I have Eco-Tanks out there and its pretty easy to see the ink levels, so I have never bothered.

Posted: **Wed Apr 02, 2025 1:25 pm**

Actually, the scripts are already there to run the epson utility.

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sudo /usr/lib/epson-backend/ecbd start

and then

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epson-printer-utility

and I am looking at the utility, chose printer and have ink levels. (this is on an EcoTank ET-2850)

If you cannot get it working, please start a new thread on this topic and we can check it out.

Posted: **Wed Apr 02, 2025 1:32 pm**

Noax wrote: Wed Apr 02, 2025 11:02 am Is systemd "bad"?

Short answer: yes. Long answer: it's up to you to decide if systemd is right for you. It's less about being good or bad in the same way that medicines aren't good or bad; it is how they are used that matters. I could lecture you and philosophize all day long, but the four main sources you should consult in making your decision are nosystemd.org, without-systemd.org, and Rethinking PID 1.

That's two anti-systemd resources and the original blog post by the primary developer of systemd which started his drive to replace every init on Linux.

systemd is not "good". It's not "bad". It's either the right thing for your workflow or else it's not. Everything systemd does, something else out there also does, so it's up to you to figure out if how the systemd developers think your machine should run is how you want your machine to be.

I said to use four sources and I've given three. The fourth one is your own gut instinct. If you want to embrace the systemd paradigm, there are plenty of distributions that will let you do that (and only that). If you don't like how systemd works behaves, and if you don't like the scope creep, the ever-growing dependencies, and the limited freedom of choice it provides, there are significantly fewer options.

MX Linux is one of the very few choices available that allow a user to run multiple init systems and pick one interchangeably at boot time.

Posted: **Wed Apr 02, 2025 5:05 pm**

CharlesV wrote: Wed Apr 02, 2025 1:25 pm Actually, the scripts are already there to run the epson utility.
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sudo /usr/lib/epson-backend/ecbd start
and then
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epson-printer-utility
and I am looking at the utility, chose printer and have ink levels. (this is on an EcoTank ET-2850)

If you cannot get it working, please start a new thread on this topic and we can check it out.

Thats gold! Thank you so so so much for this answer. I already tried that out and switched back to sysvinit on both Pcś and it can print, scan and show the ink levels :)
The only thing is I had to use the job-scheduler to run sudo /usr/lib/epson-backend/ecbd start every time on @reboot so that you only need to click the utility-programm icon.
How did you know that command was the only thing I needed to get it under sysvinit to work? I must simply overlooked something in my research or is it my "beginner status on linux"? Would be helpful to understand where you got such wisdom for my research in such matter in the future^

Also thank you DukeComposed for your insight about systemd and sysvinit. When I am done with all the pcś in our household and all runs well enough to slowly forget these first stressfull pc OS tinkering days I will look them through :)
But for my stomach I also think sysvinit "seems/feels" better...^^ We will see when I am about to hit an "actual systemd problem"...

Posted: **Wed Apr 02, 2025 5:31 pm**

Your very welcome.

Basically the difference between systemd and sysvinit services is HOW the service starts. Typically, both have an application that needs to be started... its just HOW it is started that is different. If you follow the trail of the install, look at the application(s) that start, you will see the differences.

I have only played around with changing a systemd to a sysvinit service wise, but I have been successful at creating a few things to start in the sysvinit system, and am building my voodoo up on that one!

For the epson utility, I started with the install message(s), tracked down the service that was failing, and then just launched it via command line.

Posted: **Wed Apr 02, 2025 6:20 pm**

Sorry, another qeustion:

Something bugs me a little bit: When I am trying to play an RPGMaker game from Steam, its https://store.steampowered.com/app/8500 ... _Fate_S17/ for me atm but another one has the same problem, then I can do fullscreen (right click and set fullscreen out of the context menu or doubleclick) but when I press it (any mousebutton) then it goes out of the fullscreenmode and I see my taskbar and above the name of the window.

Short story short: Is it possible to make such an emulated RPGMaker game in fullscreen only? So it doesnt leave their?

I already tried the following out:
Focus options in windowsmanager (nothing helped)
wmctrl -r 'Noel the Mortal Fate - Season 1' -b add,fullscreen (= that command worked! But sadly the same problem) When I tried it out on for example steam it was fullscreen and didnt botch to go in window mode or so until I alt+F4 steam. Its only these emulated games in their "special windows?"

Should I make my peace with that or is it possible to do something about that?

In the following an picture from the emulated window

EDIT: I red something about to "disable the compositor " when playing such games and enable it after playing such an game. And I red about "how to do it?" With an "Gamemode.ini"? Anyone an idea? I researched over the past days for this and it seems like I cant understand this problem very well...
Here is an thread about the "gamemode.ini" when anyone is interested. I searched an number of threads over the net the last few days... naturally not only reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/c ... _the_most/

Thank you again for your great help! :-)

Posted: **Wed Apr 02, 2025 6:53 pm**

CharlesV wrote: Wed Apr 02, 2025 5:31 pm Your very welcome.

Basically the difference between systemd and sysvinit services is HOW the service starts. Typically, both have an application that needs to be started... its just HOW it is started that is different. If you follow the trail of the install, look at the application(s) that start, you will see the differences.

I have only played around with changing a systemd to a sysvinit service wise, but I have been successful at creating a few things to start in the sysvinit system, and am building my voodoo up on that one!

For the epson utility, I started with the install message(s), tracked down the service that was failing, and then just launched it via command line.

Thanks for the insight. Its really fascinating to hear how you guys are working on such problems.
When you write " ... I started with the install message(s), tracked down the service that was failing, and then just launched it via command line." then I think you have an "better" or more "filled" log then my example out of the screenshot? I wouldnt know that it was the "service ecbd" out of this "tiny log" so I think I need an extra command to firstly install this .deb AND get an "more accurate"/more detailed log, or?

Thank you again for your time :-)

Posted: **Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:06 pm**

Noax wrote: Wed Apr 02, 2025 6:20 pm Sorry, another qeustion:

Something bugs me a little bit: When I am trying to play an RPGMaker game from Steam, its https://store.steampowered.com/app/8500 ... _Fate_S17/ for me atm but another one has the same problem, then I can do fullscreen (right click and set fullscreen out of the context menu or doubleclick) but when I press it (any mousebutton) then it goes out of the fullscreenmode and I see my taskbar and above the name of the window.

Short story short: Is it possible to make such an emulated RPGMaker game in fullscreen only? So it doesnt leave their?

I already tried the following out:
Focus options in windowsmanager (nothing helped)
wmctrl -r 'Noel the Mortal Fate - Season 1' -b add,fullscreen (= that command worked! But sadly the same problem) When I tried it out on for example steam it was fullscreen and didnt botch to go in window mode or so until I alt+F4 steam. Its only these emulated games in their "special windows?"

Should I make my peace with that or is it possible to do something about that?

In the following an picture from the emulated window

EDIT 2: I tried to disable the compositor now too. And an bunch of options from MX Linux general too. Esspecially all Focus named and window or click themed options. I daresay that I now saw most of the options MX Linux has in "click form". Didnt work :( I have not the slightest idea how to archive the above mentioned :-( I am going to sleep now...

Thank you again for your great help! :-)

EDIT 3: Its late and I am sleepy. Sorry for posting twice...

Posted: **Wed Apr 02, 2025 10:25 pm**

If you look at your install error you posted, it states:

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Install Message > Start /usr/lib/epson-backend/setup to change setup

The pdf also showed the systemd start service, which was attempting to start that

/usr/lib/epson-backend/ecbd start

I found the ecbd and checked it for the params and then attempted to launch it - which it did.

As for the full screen issue... I have no idea, I dont game. But you can try working with the compositors ( MX Tweak | Compositor tab ) and play around a bit to see what might change that.

Posted: **Thu Apr 03, 2025 7:43 am**

Thank you again for the answer.
So as I read I think I will need more time to get into error solution. Although this one sounds easy... just trying should have had done the trick there...

Tomorrow I am able to set up the second last PC in our household. For the basic functions (printer, internet, videos, data management, officework, some games that worked on my main pc) it "should" be straightforward now. But when I encounter more problems then I know that I will write here. You guys helped me a ton already. For an office PC Linux is really great. And for my gaming PC... time will tell. I was already prepared to make sacrifices.

But I will also wait for an answer to my qeustion above and when in an week it seems like no one knew something then I will try it with an exclusive thread. This kind of problem with RPGMaker games etc are more of an problem for immersion. Fullscreen would be really nice...
Today I need an break... next week will be work hell again and I hope I can set up the second last pc until then.

Posted: **Sat Apr 05, 2025 4:43 am**

Noax wrote: Wed Apr 02, 2025 6:20 pm Sorry, another qeustion:

Something bugs me a little bit: When I am trying to play an RPGMaker game from Steam, its https://store.steampowered.com/app/8500 ... _Fate_S17/ for me atm but another one has the same problem, then I can do fullscreen (right click and set fullscreen out of the context menu or doubleclick) but when I press it (any mousebutton) then it goes out of the fullscreenmode and I see my taskbar and above the name of the window.

Short story short: Is it possible to make such an emulated RPGMaker game in fullscreen only? So it doesnt leave their?

I already tried the following out:
Focus options in windowsmanager (nothing helped)
wmctrl -r 'Noel the Mortal Fate - Season 1' -b add,fullscreen (= that command worked! But sadly the same problem) When I tried it out on for example steam it was fullscreen and didnt botch to go in window mode or so until I alt+F4 steam. Its only these emulated games in their "special windows?"

Should I make my peace with that or is it possible to do something about that?

In the following an picture from the emulated window

EDIT: I red something about to "disable the compositor " when playing such games and enable it after playing such an game. And I red about "how to do it?" With an "Gamemode.ini"? Anyone an idea? I researched over the past days for this and it seems like I cant understand this problem very well...
Here is an thread about the "gamemode.ini" when anyone is interested. I searched an number of threads over the net the last few days... naturally not only reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/c ... _the_most/

Thank you again for your great help! :-)

Hello Noax!

I am not sure, if I can help you with your problem but I will try nonetheless. :)

In general:

The first thing I would like to recommend you when playing steam-games with linux is the use of the proton-database (https://www.protondb.com/). There you should find almost every game and usually also an assessment about it's compatibility with linux and/or hints and experiences from other players to make things work if they won't run out of the box.

As you probably know Steam uses a compatibility layer called proton which is based on wine to make windows games playable. Some versions of proton might work better (or worse) than others. This is something that also could be mentioned by other players when you browse through the proton-database. In such a case you should make a right click on your game, select "properties" and then "compatibility" and force steam to use the desired version of proton.

However... I have looked there for your game by myself and sadly there are only two entries and nothing about a fullscreen-problem. :/
Please forgive me the question but have have you checked the ingame options (if there are any) and that the game is supposed to run fullscreen?

Usually (from my experience) it is not needed to fiddle around with the compositor. When every option in the game is set correctly I would at first try to switch to a different version of proton to see if it makes a difference. Could you please try "Proton Experimental" with the game and report back?

In case that it won't work we could look for error-messages when running steam and the game from terminal but maybe a different proton will already do the trick.

I wish you good luck! :)

Posted: **Sat Apr 05, 2025 10:13 am**

Firstly thank you so much for your answer talera.

So to elaborate atleast an little bit: I tryed the kast 5 proton versions from the compatability options for this game, ingame ther is no fullscreen option, on windows you need one button press (for all rpgmaker games different, sometimes f4, sometimes f5) these buttons seems not to work with proton and lastly one specific rpgmaker game has an fullscreen option ingame and it seems to run great in it (only few minutes testing so far)

But I dont care anymore. Its usefull even for future reference to know if it is possible to make this game to fullscreen but I am tired. I now will play it with an ps4 controller on fullscreen and that seems to work for me. It dont revert back to window except I use the touch pad on the controller witch emulates an mouseclick when oressed/tabbed) and therefore I have my immersion.

So thank you very much for this replie but dont feel indebted to sind time in this issue for me. I now know again full well how much of a time sink it is to switch 4 PCs OS wise and make them somewhat usefull and stable. In 2 weeks i will also switch my fathers main laptop to linux. Office wise it should be great for him. And he has 2 PCs to play around until I am home. They seemed stable for his office work.

So another qeustion: the XFCE-Screensaver App (the built on on the OS) it seems to take all the pictures out of the "home/pictures" directory for "Diashow" . Can I respecify that to another directory?

Thank you all again for your great help and have an nice day! :-)

Posted: **Sat Apr 05, 2025 12:20 pm**

Hey :)

Thank you for your nice reply! And don't worry, I really don't feel indebted - I am just curious to know what's the problem behind the fullscreen-issue is.

So... maybe you have already tried it but... could you please try the combination alt+enter when you are running the game? And then tell me if this works for you?
At least for me it switches a game from windowed to fullscreen so maybe it's just that simple. Fingers crossed!

Unfortuntely I haven't used the screensaver app so far so I can not help you with that. But I am sure another one can. :)

Oh and please don't give up! Yes it may be time consuming but in the end I think you will be happy that you have invested the time!

A nice evening to you!

Posted: **Sat Apr 05, 2025 1:11 pm**

Noax wrote: Sat Apr 05, 2025 10:13 am
So another qeustion: the XFCE-Screensaver App (the built on on the OS) it seems to take all the pictures out of the "home/pictures" directory for "Diashow" . Can I respecify that to another directory?

Thank you all again for your great help and have an nice day! :-)

The xfce screen saver is still buggy. I direct people to uninstall it, then install the xscreensaver ( MX Package Installer), and not only should this stabilize the screensvers / suspend / locking, but it also will give you that feature of picking a location for your pictures.

Posted: **Sat Apr 05, 2025 4:27 pm**

Thank you again for your repliy.

Even when I respect your answer about that the XFCE-Screensaver should be buggy I think I will stay with it. Because its all functional for us/me what we need. Even that picture directory "problem" isnt really bad for me. I will simply take another folder on potential another drive to take my pictures there. And I already installed the xscreensaver APP but I found it simply ugly. Itś nice that there is so much options but I only want simply pictures displayed (Diashow or only one picture it doesnt really matter either for me) and that APP is, for me atleast, overcharged with options. I can also switch between root and user when I feel it is needed or I want to try out something specific so that still functions too.

Long story short: I respect it but I am also simply too lazy (and through 6 days near constant work to switch 4 PCs to linux and gather first experience in it also very much tired...) to switch to something what I actually dont need.
So: can I respecify it or not? :D

Posted: **Sat Apr 05, 2025 4:39 pm**

talera wrote: Sat Apr 05, 2025 12:20 pm Hey :)

Thank you for your nice reply! And don't worry, I really don't feel indebted - I am just curious to know what's the problem behind the fullscreen-issue is.

So... maybe you have already tried it but... could you please try the combination alt+enter when you are running the game? And then tell me if this works for you?
At least for me it switches a game from windowed to fullscreen so maybe it's just that simple. Fingers crossed!

Unfortuntely I haven't used the screensaver app so far so I can not help you with that. But I am sure another one can. :)

Oh and please don't give up! Yes it may be time consuming but in the end I think you will be happy that you have invested the time!

A nice evening to you!

I tried out an bunch of things all gatherd through the net but please keep the ideas flowing I must oversee something... I hope it atleast...

So I also tried that out long before it will only register the enter button and step forward to the option selected ingame (continnue is preselected at game start and brings me to the save screen).
I also tried alt+F11 and it goes to fullscreen but that simply one click and it goes windowed again persists.
And I also tried out wmctrl and it goes to fullscreen but the same problem as above.
And an bunch of other things. I clicked, atleast I think, all focus and compositor relevant buttons and tried the game out - nothing.
EDIT: Ahh and another RPGmaker game on steam witch has an actual fullscreen button in the game seems to run well in fullscreen. It seems all the RPGmaker games witch has no ingame fullscreen option have this "problem" for me.

So and to top even all of that I tried out another RPGmaker game what I bought external and installed it from lutris+wine and it runs well, also with an controller witch I will use to circumvent the problem, but the same problem as above. I tried also all relevant (and possible non relevant) options in lutris out. The only thing is I cant bring gamescope to work and I didnt found much material that I can understand or, for now because my will is simply not there anymore after hours over hours on this "simple little problem", am willing to take like 8 steps of complicated programm installations and setting up processes. That can "possibly" an problem solver.

Posted: **Sat Apr 05, 2025 6:21 pm**

I now also tried out compiz. Didnt work

I deinstalled it right after I activated it because I dont want to fiddle with an complete "window reinitialisierungstool"... creepy.

Hope I didnt break anything with installing and removing it shortly. As of now I only needed to configure some of my windows options new and all seems to function.
In /var/cache/apt/archives/ there are still the .deb packagaes even after removing it and under etc/compizconfig and .txt document with 2 lines of code. That shouldnt affect the system right?
I also did sudo apt autoremove

Posted: **Sat Apr 05, 2025 8:12 pm**

So after another 4ish hours research I give up! This game runs, I can play with an controller or keyboard only in fullscreen without it reverting to window. Thats enough. Sorry, but when I dont see an answer that I think is definitely the solution I will not bother with that anymore. Its a little bit sad and I would want to know if anyone has similar exp with this kind of "problem" but just didnt bother to attempt to solve it but ultimately it doesnt matter. I cant bring myself to sink even more time in this kind of "problem".

In a little bit more then 1 week I will bring this OS on my fathers main laptop to live. The last pc on our household (excluding an windows laptop for "emergency" like chkdsk) When I encounter any problems not solvable for me I will write at the latest then here again. And when all goes well I will wait another week and mark this thread as solved with one of the most helpful answers from CharlesV.

Thank you all again for your help. I mean it.

Posted: **Sat Apr 05, 2025 9:25 pm**

Hi

just my two sense - yes -

MX Linux 23.5.KDE-ahs
It was need to enable the REPOS to get all that stuff.

I was running live mode, installed XFCE then, installed full KDE over it, my first try to install Nvidia Drivers failed but the second run worked.
I mixed MX Information and just used the Installer, it was needed to reset the installation one time.

I was able to run all i want on my system.
- Musicproduction Stuff (U-he, Atlas Sequencer,Airwindows,Vital)
- 2-3 Games via Lutris (Starcraft II looks a bit weird, BAR runs flawless, STEAM seems working i played one game on it)
- Office (i love Libre so no issues here)
- Graphics Stuff (inkscape, screenshots, (Wildfire Fractal will follow))
- AI Stuff (like Forge UI, (Ollama in Terminal will follow)

I did not try OBS, Streaming, Animation Tools (like Photo Mosh) and using some straight Windows Apps.
But the most Stuff works for around a two weeks.

For the First i Backup my System via the Build in ISO Maker. Thats too cool.
Because come from Windows the Timeshift can't handle NTFS for Backups.
So i tried rsync via Youtube Tutorials and tried out some Other Backup Apps.

i start linux everytime when i am an on my machine...so i am about to forget windows from day to day.

Posted: **Sun Apr 06, 2025 4:13 am**

Noax wrote: Sat Apr 05, 2025 8:12 pm When I encounter any problems not solvable for me I will write at the latest then here again. And when all goes well I will wait another week and mark this thread as solved

Marking a thread solved isn't meant to be an indicator of customer satisfaction. It's meant to help the next folks who come along looking for answers to their own problems and, hopefully, get them quickly to the exact post with the best answer. While I can respect that this is a new user with a lot of new user questions, this thread is no longer about hardware compatibility and gets further away from that topic every day.

If you now know the stated hardware works with MX Linux, and it seems like it does, then you should mark this thread as solved and open a new thread with a relevant title if and when a new issue occurs.

Posted: **Sun Apr 06, 2025 6:44 am**

DukeComposed wrote: Sun Apr 06, 2025 4:13 am Marking a thread solved isn't meant to be an indicator of customer satisfaction. It's meant to help the next folks who come along looking for answers to their own problems and, hopefully, get them quickly to the exact post with the best answer. While I can respect that this is a new user with a lot of new user questions, this thread is no longer about hardware compatibility and gets further away from that topic every day.

If you now know the stated hardware works with MX Linux, and it seems like it does, then you should mark this thread as solved and open a new thread with a relevant title if and when a new issue occurs.

So okay I will respect your answer and want to suggest that I will use my system 2-3 days more (when I am home and that will be now in 9 days) and then I will reply that my hardware works and mark that reply as solved. That good?

About my RPGMaker games "problem". The solution was really easy and I am feeling dumb and good at the same time. In MX Linux we have F4 for the Terminal Drop down. I had just to change that to F4 + Super and press F4 in Noel the Mortal Fate or now also any other RPGMaker game installed for example also through Lutris + Wine. Its almost always the simple solutions for problem solving cases... But I am glad.

Posted: **Sun Apr 06, 2025 7:22 am**

Noax wrote: Sun Apr 06, 2025 6:44 am So okay I will respect your answer and want to suggest that I will use my system 2-3 days more (when I am home and that will be now in 9 days) and then I will reply that my hardware works and mark that reply as solved. That good?

I'm certainly not in charge of whether you feel a thread you've created is solved or not. If you needed to know something so badly you made a thread about it, and that question has been answered, consider marking the thread solved. Postponing an open thread until so much time has passed that you can only look back at it in retrospect is a recipe for disaster because when things work the way they should, everyone moves on and most people forget to come back and mark a solved thread as solved.

The alternative is opening a thread, piling half a dozen different problems into it, and then abandoning it because one of the solutions offered wasn't exactly perfect or because so much time passed you forget about it. Beyond just helping you right now, threads exist for posterity. Marking solved threads as solved in a timely manner helps people in the future who might have similar problems.

Posted: **Sun Apr 06, 2025 7:42 am**

Fine. To respect the forum and the forum rules I now close this thread.

For anyone who reads that in the future: I am (and I am still an beginner) so I opened a thread not only to discuss hardware compatibility but also discuss other problems when you are new to Linux and focus to get your first few pcs up and running. Like printer related problems or first game problems.

So for anyone new heres an summary whats solved here:

- Yes after a few days testing hardware seems functioning. I play tested like 15 games and they all but one function. That one game is an RPGMaker game who I can install the patch but an other specifically patch that I don't want to mention here will get reverted. This problem seems acknowledged by the developers and it seems not only happening on Linux. CharlesV advised me to switch to the AHS version and Liquerix 6.12 kernel for the above mentioned hardware. So I did that and it seems to work great.
- For all the guys who want to bring an epson printer (especially SX-130 and XP-412 but many more because they have official drivers for many many epson printers as .deb packages) to live: Yes they function but as CharlesV mentioned you must do the following things when your utility isn't working and you want to stay on sysvinit (the PID1 error is an indication that one process cant be normally started under your standard sysvinit installation so to switch to systemd per boot manager will work but I feel like, although I am still an beginner, that sysvinit will be better for stability reasons but after asking it shouldn't be bad per se to go with systemd):

CharlesV wrote: Wed Apr 02, 2025 1:25 pm Actually, the scripts are already there to run the epson utility.
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sudo /usr/lib/epson-backend/ecbd start
and then
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epson-printer-utility
and I am looking at the utility, chose printer and have ink levels. (this is on an EcoTank ET-2850)

If you cannot get it working, please start a new thread on this topic and we can check it out.

I already have the scheduler setup at @reboot so I don't need to manually input that anymore. The printers itself got easily identified and for SX130 I needed to go with an SX115 driver because CUPS didn't have the SX130 driver in the list even after manual driver install but that's whatever because it works reliably. Also the scanners got easiliy identified and works wonderfull with the inbuilt scanner app.

- For RPGMaker games you installed you should change your F4 button (native terminal drop down) to for example F4 + super. Then you can press F4 and all of your RPGMaker games who understand that in windows will also be able to understand that F4 press in Linux and go in an solid full screen.

Thats the main problems that I can see as solved here over 6 pages. Theres a little bit more new beginner tips here so feel free to read all about it but I don't would advise that. Make an new thread and you get better help. And I don't want to say the people here aren't nice or something they have helped me a lot! Especially CharlesV.

Thank you all again for your help! I really mean it!
For further questions about MX Linux I will now make new threads as advised.

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