MX Linux – Midweight Simple Stable Desktop OS

MX Linux is a cooperative venture between the antiX and MX Linux communities. It is a family of operating systems that are designed to combine elegant and efficient desktops with high stability and solid performance.  MX’s graphical tools provide an easy way to do a wide variety of tasks, while the Live USB and snapshot tools inherited from antiX add impressive portability and remastering capabilities. Extensive support is available through videos, documentation and a very friendly Forum.

MX Linux – Xfce is our flagship. It is a midweight desktop environment that aims to be fast and low-resource, while still being attractive and user-friendly. It augments the native Xfce configuration with unique features:

It supports a large range of hardware from older laptops to modern desktops. Available in Standard Debian Stable and “ Advanced Hardware Support ” enabled versions.

KDE is well known for its advanced desktop “Plasma” and a wide variety of powerful applications. MX Linux – KDE has the following features:

MX Linux – KDE is “ Advanced Hardware Support ” enabled release that runs well on a wide variety of 64-bit machines.

MX Linux – Fluxbox unites the speed, low resource use and elegance of Fluxbox with the toolset from MX Linux. The result is a lightweight and fully functional system that has many unique features:

This OS functions as well on older low-capacity machines as on fast modern ones.

It’s also a good idea to save in your /home directory or in the cloud (Dropbox, Google Drive,
etc.) a file that contains the list of programs that you have installed with Synaptic, apt or Deb
Installer. If in the future you need to reinstall, you can recover the names of the files for
reinstallation.
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There is a dedicated tool for this purpose: MX User Installed Packages. See Section
3.4.
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You can create an inventory of all packages on your system installed since installation by
copying this long command and running it in a terminal:
dpkg -l | awk '/^[1]i/{ print 2 }' | grep -v -e ^lib[0-q\|s-z] -e ^libr[0-d\|f-z] -e ^libre[0-n\|p-z] -e -dev -e -dev: -e
linux-image -e linux-headers | awk '{print $1" installed"}' | column -t > apps_installed.txt
That will create a text file in your home directory called “apps_installed.txt” that contains
all the package names.
To reinstall ALL those packages at once: make sure that all needed repositories are
enabled, then issue these commands one at a time:
sudo dpkg \SpecialChar nobreakdash\SpecialChar nobreakdashset-
selections < apps_installed.txt
apt-get update
apt-get dselect-upgrade
NOTE: this should not be attempted between MX releases based on different Debian
versions (e.g., from MX-19.4 to MX-21)