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Stevo wrote: Wed Jan 01, 2025 7:13 am Can be set permanently in MX Tweak, in the "Other" tab, by clicking a radio button to prevent the kvm module from loading at boot. It will still load if something demands it.

MX Linux shines bright!

I tried out Virt-manager (libvirt), which I installed from "Popular Applications" in MXPI. Then I uninstalled it, and went back to VirtualBox. I am running the current Oracle version of VirtualBox: Version 7.0.22 r165102 (Qt5.15.8)

When I start up a virtual machine, I get an error message from VB ...

I am missing the mx update notifier icon for xfce.

In the MX Cleanup tool, there is an option to remove unused WiFi drivers.
I ticked that option, and now I want to reinstall the removed drivers, in order to create a MX snapshot suitable for installation on different hardware.
Which drivers might I have removed?


If you re-open MX Cleanup and ...

In the MX Cleanup tool, there is an option to remove unused WiFi drivers.
I ticked that option, and now I want to reinstall the removed drivers, in order to create a MX snapshot suitable for installation on different hardware.
Which drivers might I have removed?
My system has a wired connection, so ...

I removed unused wifi drivers. Probably, all wifi drivers were removed, because this computer has a wired connection Now I want them back, to create a snapshot that will work on different hardware.
How to get those drivers back?

What happens if I use the MX snapshot tool to take a snapshot of my installed system -- MX Linux 23 KDE with AHS -- and then I buy a new computer with different hardware, and restore the snapshot onto it? Does it adjust to the new hardware and use the appropriate drivers and optimize performance? Or ...

Slackware has caffeine-ng
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0 ... ffeine-ng/
so systemd doesn't seem to be a requirement

No, not broken. Just feature-deprived.

caffeine-ng
https://codeberg.org/WhyNotHugo/caffeine-ng
It has some advanced and cool features such as auto-activating when it detects audio playback, and allowing exceptions to the auto-activation behavior.
I would try to build it myself, but some of the dependencies are not in MX repo.