One of my favorite features of MX #Linux is the Snapshot feature, where I can create a duplicate copy of my current OS install as a bootable ISO & use that as my own personal backup for when #MXLinux inevitably shits the bed. Just one more thing I can give Linux props for.

Alors je râle souvent à propos de mon taf', et surtout des tête de pioche qui prennent les décisions, mais les vrais gens du quotidien peuvent être cool.
Oui, même les gars et les filles de la DSI qui font si peur !
Là il fallait changer mon vieux macbook (2013) qui n'en pouvait plus. Ils m'ont autorisé à avoir un nouveau pc sous linux direct, et même à choisir ma distribution pour mettre MXLinux

#3615MaLife
#MaVieAuTaf
#Université
#ESR
#Linux
#DIY
#MXLinux

No luck getting the webcam on my brand new Dell to work with MX Linux AHS.
Looks like support for "ipu6" still isn’t quite there yet. :(

He de dir que MX Linux (amb Xfce) m'està agradant una barbaritat. Lleugera i fàcilment configurable (extremadament configurable); no deixa de ser una Debian adaptada, i això és garantia d'estabilitat, de seguretat i de repositoris ben farcits. Amb aquest Toshiba (que deu tindre més de 14 anys, perquè la CPU està datada el novembre del 2010), amb un modestíssim Intel Core i3, només 6 GB de RAM i una unitat SSD de 512 GB, m'està donant una velocitat satisfactòria fins i tot per a navegar amb Zen Browser (derivat de Firefox). Llàstima que la bateria tinga una durada testimonial; però, mentre dure, tinc portàtil.

For my #FIAF presentation & workshop in Bologna end of the week, I've put together a clean "#PlugAndPlayAI" setup:

#USB #LiveDistro: #MXLinux #GNU #Debian with #Ollama, #LLava and #OpenWebUI in #Docker and #LLM files on another USB3 #nvme

Fast like a local install. Given enough RAM and CPU/GPU.

Scary how easy it is to do that.

Bonus: Creates self-replicating #ISO boot images of itself (in current configuration) in less than 5 minutes. .

Wow.

Mx Linux's support forum is pretty good.

It is why new users like MX Linux and old school users don't. Because some of you, don't feel at home, unless you can rain on someone's parade.

#MxLinux #Forums #SupportForums

RE: https://mk.absturztau.be/notes/a8jt153q4ak7019k

My #linux box just works. It is a very old HP (before they went full enshittification) that originally had Windows 7. I wiped that out and installed #mxlinux as it was moderately light weight and the live USB stick recognized all the hardware without a problem.

Machine boots up to a working desktop in around 43 seconds. It does a check for updates and within a couple of minutes it is up-to-date and functional. This machine runs rings around the work laptop as it at times is five minutes to boot. It may not be a fair comparison as they must run all of the security software that my Linux machine just doesn't need to be secure .

I keep pointing it out to work that it would be nice if I could get a Linux machine, but so far crickets.

Bom dia!
Não tenho ligado o meu computador pessoal, mas hoje fi-lo. Uso #Linux, mais propriamente o #mxlinux, e notei imediatamente quão melhor é a renderização dos tipos de letras.
Uso windows no trabalho, by the way.

As a #Linux user & lover, i am to "power users" as fish are to bicycles. Even so, sometimes i do get a little frisson of delight when i remember nice little tricks for the #cli / #terminal.

Sometime later today i intend to replace the second-boot of Lappy [currently #MXLinux, but rarely used coz i tend to dislike it] with #SparkyLinux. Atm i am just using Lappy's first-boot [#Fedora #KDE #Plasma] for some nice hours in my warm sunroom of fediversing. However, minutes ago i took a mini-break, for preparation, to open Dolphin on another virtual desktop, & Yakuake, in which i split the window & ran lsblk in the lhs, then blkid in the rhs pane. I always forget that the latter needs sudo [since a couple of years ago], so ofc the command i had tried didn't work. Then, out of the blue, i suddenly remembered "the trick".

Rather than physically type sudo blkid, i instead typed sudo !!, which then automagically appended that erroneous prior cmd to the sudo, thus running the correct sudo blkid. Linux is so lovely!

Life Without systemd: For Real Use Cases

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsCiqogu-bg

Thirty years of using Linux and not turning back!

In 1995 I started my Linux journey with SUSE. I had an old Compaq SFF and Windows 95 crawled. There was a Linux magazine with a CD and decided to give it a try and was amazed at the difference is performance.

I did a backup of my files to a CD and installed it. Faster, no crashes and it just worked. It was a bit of a learning curve using the package manager and where all of the tools were.

Over the years I moved from SUSE to MANDRIVA to PCLINUX to ANTIX and now MX-Linux. About fifteen years ago my wife wanted to migrate and we went through the migration. She absolutely loves it as it just works and has never crashed on her. I set it up to be as much in look-and-feel to her Windows95 setup. I love it as she doesn't call 1-800-tom-help very often. Most of the times it is asking where a specific tool is and only once!

Over the decades we purchased only used machines. They worked and much more inexpensive than the latest and greatest shiny computers. Only two machines were new. One was from my prior work, they gave me a bonus and I broke down and bought a tower. The other was a gaming laptop. I do play some games, but I was doing a lot of photo editing of family documents along with a few family videos and needed a machine with enough to handle that.

The gaming laptop is now on the list to convert to Linux as MS is stopping support for Windows 10. The only thing from stopping me earlier was the tax software was windows only. They now have a web version so that limitation is now gone!

If you are thinking about migration to Linux check out DistroWatch as they have a great list of distros and you can search for what you are interested in. Create a bootable USB stick and give it a try before migrating.

#linux #mxlinux #linuxmigration #distrowatch

https://distrowatch.com

Option 3 for me. MX Linux booted from a USB stick. Later on, I will upgrade after I make a verified backup.

#linux #mxlinux

https://flip.it/KUJy.e

I was playing around with the latest MX Linux on my windows laptop and I had a strange looking screen. Having the taskbar set to bottom or left and nothing would appear on my external monitor. Face meet palm moment when I remembered that by default it does NOT mirror screens, it extends! A quick change and I have a proper desktop. A quick run through and it all appears to work without a problem. One item on my checklist done for prep work for my eventual migration from WIN10 to Linux when MS kills support.

"I have invented a new IT term: Passive-aggressive cooling!"
"I think you'll find that my Mac Mini is MUCH cooler than yours!"

(I used thermal paste in the center and JB-WELD along the edges on each heatsink)