MX Linux

Reader supplied reviews for MX Linux Average rating 8.0 from 678 review(s) Please specify which version of the distribtion you are reviewing. Please select a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on MX Linux? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 23.621.319.418.317.116.1 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 23.6 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-04-16 Votes: 7 MX Linux is a solid desktop Linux distro for those wanting something from the Debian family but with more utilities and newer kernels and better hardware support than stock Debian stable. For new Linux users coming from Windows I would say it is suitable for those with more technical knowledge and experience of using computers, and operating systems such as DOS, as it does require more typing at the command line interface than say Linux Mint, which i would say is better for those who are less experienced at computing as it has better GUI tools. For users coming from Windows, it also requires more tinkering after installing to get it to look and behave more like the Windows user interface in order to be familiar and easy to use, than Mint. Watch youtube videos on how to set MX up and customise it after installing. One area in which it is better than Mint is in the Linux kernels available for it in the MX Linux repositories. These are newer and may afford better support for newer hardware than those in Mint, including the Debian edition of Mint. For example, MX Linux lets me use my Intel AX200 wifi card whereas LMDE (and also stock Debian) does not support it. MX Linux currently has a version 6.14 Linux kernel available, whereas Mint is still stuck at 6.11 . MX Linux also has newer kernels that have security fixes for known vulnerabilities (eg. CVE-2024-53150 and CVE-2024-53197 which are used by authoritarian regimes to hack devices of journalists and civil society members) whereas Ubuntu LTS and Linux Mint lag behind in this area (as of April 2025 still no safe kernels in those distros). One of the strengths of MX is the set of utilities it comes with. It has useful utilities for deleting unnecessary files to free up more disk space, for tweaking the user interface, and so on. The flagship edition of MX uses Xfce desktop environment and this is the version I like best as it comes with a very good set of utilities such as the Xfce screenshot app which is one of the best I have used, and Xfce very easy to customise. Xfce is also relatively light on system resources like RAM. Other editions include a KDE edition (which will use more RAM than Xfce and in my opinion offers no significant advantage over Xfce to make up for this), and one using Fluxbox (lighter on system resources than Xfce but possibly less user friendly also). If you have an old computer with a slower CPU and less RAM, I would recommend MX Linux's sister distro AntiX instead of the fluxbox edition of MX, as it is designed for that use case with smaller kernels and so on. I would say MX is best for computers built during the last 15 years with at least 4 GB of RAM to the hardware made in the last year. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 23.6 Rating: 9 Date: 2025-04-14 Votes: 1 Well, you see, it's like this: I have had MX Linux since 23.4 and have been content enough, mostly. But I have been in the habit of following the releases of all of the -buntu/Ubuntu series that comes out twice a year: October and April, hence the 24.10 and depending on the "flavor" of the -buntu distro, it is either already released, (as of April 13, 2025), or in the last week of beta. Since 2017, I had been updating my releases of Kubuntu because I love the customizing abilities of KDE Plasma. I had had enough of a wee taste of Qt that went along with Plasma and so, when Plasma hit version 6, it came at a really bad time, or so the Powers That Be had told us, which explained the repeated versions and re-versions of 5.27. Supposedly. So, when I noticed that Kubuntu had once again asked us to swallow that bitter "Pill/worm-on-a-hook," one more time, once again, I switched to MX. So, holding out hope that KDE or Canonical or some other entity might finally switch to Plasma 6.xx, I was terribly disappointed. Again. Oh, I know: what does all of this have to do with MX Linux? Simply this: I finally realized that even though I was running LXQt on Linux MX 23, everything that I really wanted in a distro or OS, if you will, was already here! I did have to do a bit of tweaking beyond the usual on-hand resources (there were not that many, as can be evidenced by the mile-and-a-half-long menu of every MX Program or Application under the sun). Seriously! MX should adopt the motto, "If we ain't got it, you don't need it!" Still, I can't shake the feeling that something is still missing! I haven't a clue what that might be but until I can think of something else that I want but likely don't actually need, MX will already have made it an option! Yes, fine. But would I recommend MX Linux to someone who still uses Mac or Windows? Absolutely! Actually, I already have, a few times! So what are you doing still reading this? Go download MX right now! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 23.5 Rating: 9 Date: 2025-04-13 Votes: 4 My experience with MX Linux has always been above average, no matter what the version number. I am a C language programmer and one thing I like is that you can associate files to be opened by programs of your choice. So if you click on a NNN.exe file, and you've associated those types of files, for example to "DOSBOX" then when you click on the file, DOSBOX will open that file. I wish that MX Linux would offer some of the other desktops. I'm using xfce. I've recently switched from Zorin 17 pro. I like it also but when I'm programming, I have to find work arounds to run those programs in DOSBOX. The file manager and program loader is much better than the distro's that run GNOME. They are so slow. I also wish that MX Linux would make the file manager keep the files being copied open so that you know what you are loading to a thumbdrive, or any drive for that matter. If I close that window out, there's no way to get it back and you just have to wait until the file operations have completed. You have no way of knowing what the status of that is. One work around is you can go to the file manager and look at the preferences and see if the folder you are concerned with is growing in size or not. Thanks to the MX Linux team for making such a nice distro. Really like it and will continue to use. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 678 reader reviews of MX Linux...