MX Linux

Reader supplied reviews for MX Linux Average rating 8.1 from 805 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: -- 25.123.621.319.418.317.116.1 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: 25.1 Rating: 9 Date: 2026-04-10 Country: United States Votes: 12 Fantastic! I use older laptops that have had WIn 10 and Win 11 OS's installed on them. As always going to MxLinux has saved them. The simple fact that Mx runs pure Debian is a plus. I went to MxLInux around 2017 as it transitioned from AntiX, Having the choice of running FluxBox, Gnome, and even LxQT is another plus. I use XFCE as it comes then go through the set up to move my icons and task bars around for my standard desk top layout. I currently prefer MxLInux over Mint as Mint has had way to much UBUNTU in it. Yep... Sticking with a pure Debian OS has its advantages... Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 25.1 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-03-30 Country: United Kingdom Votes: 26 Awesome distro. Been using it now for around 1 year. I'm still using the XFCE on my desktop, but have tried out the KDE desktop and all works perfectly fine as expected. The real high point for me is the USB support allowing robust encrypted overalays to be used - which in practical terms means you can have a copy of your full MX environment running from a live USB (i.e. you get the compatibility to run it on almost any machine without hitting wifi or other hardware issues), but with an encrypted overlay that means losing the USB will not put any of your data at risk. Stay logged into browser sessions between uses etc with full confidence that losing your USB won't result in anyone being able to hijack those sessions. I've now been running my primary USB for over 8 months and not had any issues even though I'm doing regular apt upgrades. As a dsitro it's been bullet proof. No issues, everything just works. Looking forward to the full encrypted USB experience being fully supported with systemd which will also open up KDE for that side of it as well. It's just an awesome and trouble free distro. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 25.1 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-03-24 Country: Spain Votes: 26 Buena distribución con drivers broadcom funcionando desde el arranque. Las MxTools son muy completas y poderosas, permiten muchos ajustes sin usar la terminal. Tiene una colección de software que funciona realmente bien, muy completa y variada. Lo mejor es que esta basada en debian 13 Trixie. Actualmente estoy usando la version con KDE ya que puedo usar Wayland sin problemas. Mx Linux 25.1 es una distribución actual que funciona muy bien en mi portatil acer aspire v3-572g. Le ha dado una segunda vida. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 805 reader reviews of MX Linux...