 Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel today. I'm going to be talking a little bit about MX Linux now I'm going to attempt and install of it here in a virtual machine in just a moment. So but first I Would like to ask this question. Why is MX Linux so popular? So if we go to distra watch calm We'll see number one rank here is at MX Linux and it's not even really close is by a thousand points or whatever these things are And it's been that way for Months and months maybe even years. I don't even know it's been a long time. Every time I come here MX Linux is The number one it's for the last six months. At least it's been at the top My question is why so what first of all, what is MX Linux? MX Linux is a Debian based distro. Let's see how they just actually describe it It makes Linux a desktop-oriented Linux distribution based on Debian stable branch. So this is gonna be Debian Buster, I think I'm not sure I'm not that is familiar with Debian as I probably should be is a cooperative venture between Antax uses XFC as a desktop as a default desktop is a midway operating system designed to combine an element efficient Desktop with simple configuration high stability and solid performance and medium-sized footprint What makes it special? Why is it number one? So we're gonna install it today to find out So let's go over here to the virtual machine and see if we can make this thing her full screen, which we can we can do So this is this is MX Linux, this is the KDE version So they do have a KDE version, which is one that I chose because Katie is awesome Let's go ahead and Use your demo password demo. Okay I believe this is gonna be the install close Installer All right, let's let's install us. Ooh. Oh This is a custom installer. How nice I have no clue what I'm doing. Let's see here. That means we're going to read the instructions MX is an independent Linux distribution based on Debian stable MX Linux uses some components from MEPI as they don't know what it is Linux which are released under the Apache free license Enjoy using MX Linux change keyboard settings. It was look perfectly fine Let's modify partitions run partition tool Okay, so this is just the KDE partition manager, which Believe it or not. I've never actually used the KDE partition manager before it's always departed Even even went on the KDE distributions that I've used before it's always been GT parted So let's go ahead and create a new partition table We'll do MS-DOS. I believe is the one that we want apply. Okay, that succeeded partition new We're just gonna do a whole the whole thing here There's nowhere here to market as root though at it mount point Maybe I should have used the XFC version because I know what he'll be able to use G-parted. Okay Or she wanted to shave changes major made. Yes, sure Hmm, well, let's go ahead and give it a try. It's probably nice. You're gonna succeed. We're gonna try auto install using the full disk No, don't need to do that. Do next Okay, so it's gonna partition it Install grub on Linux using for Linux windows. Yep, that'll work. It does allow you to cook I wonder if Well, cool. So you can keep going while that's working. That is a neat installer That's kind of similar to how the ubiquity installer works if I remember right because while you're setting up your user and stuff It's actually already installing the system action after you've get after it's received all the information that it needs to receive So we'll say we'll keep the computer name is MX We're gonna delete that domain because we do not need a domain name or the we can keep the work group the same It requires a domain name. Okay We'll just We'll just leave a example.com there then, okay Yep, that's fine Detroit By the way, can we just pause and say this is a way better system of choosing your time zone than that stupid idiotic map that every other distribution uses I Think I talked about this in one of my other Distro reviews, but that map is stupid. This is ten times superior This is if there's no other reason why MX Linux is number one on the list. That could be the reason why I Even allows you to choose the format of the time. Wow, okay I'm gonna leave the service service system service settings Just the way they are. There's no sense in mixing that up Okay, let's see here We don't need to show passwords save live desktop changes. Oh, that's neat cool So you could actually go through and customize everything you wanted. I wonder how much of that would actually work I'm not gonna go through and find out but It'd be cool if you go through and customize KD all you want while this thing is installing and then just boot up My bet is more that it is just going to change save your like your Wi-Fi password or something Username cannot contain special characters. Oh That's because I actually changed use my full name instead of just my username, okay? Be good if I actually read the Instructions there we go, and now we're just waiting for it to finish This is a really nice little installer. It's not pretty But it's really nice I'm really enjoyed that actually We'll have to see what it what all it installs Automatically reboot your system when this Installer is closed. I do not want to do that I want to finish this and then I want to shut it down because that way I can remove the Installation media from the virtual machine. I shut down here. We go And you should that should close here for any moment now. Yeah, we're just gonna do this close off the machine Do this settings Storage is empty already. Okay. Good Sometimes it does sometimes it does sometimes it doesn't sometimes it leaves it in there. Sometimes it doesn't I don't know why Okay, and we'll make this full screen again All right Here we go See if it see if it boots So far not explicitly Happy with the boot time, but it's a virtual machine. So who knows what it actually is. Oh, here we go and it's full screen good Oops You can always tell how slow that that was really quick. Yeah, I'm very good. You want on that? That's what that was really good. I mean that the boot up time between, you know, boot up and getting into SDDM was You know a little slower than what I was expecting, but I'm assuming that's virtual machine problems But between the login and getting the KD was really I mean just lickly split lickety split All right, so we got frequent ask questions and user manuals wiki tools tweak What this is doesn't actually there we go Interesting. Okay, cool This is not default from KD. This is something that MX Linux actually has enable single quick show windows I'm assuming that single quick means Yeah, that's good. That's the way it should be anybody who thinks that double-clicking and KD is the way to open files is just wrong This is my contrast make this smaller and apply that actually ended up getting bigger. I don't know it doesn't matter Enable kernel sandbox enable mounting of internal hard drives by non-root users. I'll leave that alone. We'll close. Okay, cool For arms videos contribute. This is a nice little startup thing and Thank You MX Linux for not checking this show out dialogue on startup by Automatically every other distribution checks out automatically and you have to check it. This is the way it should be That's really cool. All right. Let's go through and see what they have installed. So education library office is installed a few few of the regular, you know Linux games the Majang and mines and Sudoku Graphics, let's see Digicam, which is I think is gonna be for your Like webcam. I'm not actually sure what that is. Gimp is installed. G stance G scan PDF is installed when view is of image viewer Oculars also an image viewer simple scan for scanning a Firefox KPPP, which is obviously gonna be a KDE Base thing Thunderbird and kTorrent Multimedia so VLC is here Clementine is here So we get also mixer and pulse audio those are things for controlling the volume and stuff MX tools. Let's see here. This is just gonna be mostly just setting stuff MX cleanup. I wonder what MX cleanup is I'm gonna find out Indication user This is probably going to be too late to clear cash. So this is basically like a Wonder if this is even kind of forked off from bleach bit. That's cool Interesting, okay You have to clean caches and stuff empty the trash and you can oh you can and you can schedule it That is amazing. I love it. I'm using You if MX Linux was based on arch and had the a you are oh man, I'd be switching Just for this one feature. That's awesome I wonder if you can download this just like from a get or something and just use it I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to find out cuz that's cool. I Get excited about the weirdest things people. I just do okay Let's see what else we got here codex installer Which is gonna be to install like mp3 codex and stuff boot options. I don't know what this is Can you like choose the the? Okay, so this boot so you can change the menu timeout for the for grub You can change the That's that's good. That's awesome. This reminds me a lot of the Arco Linux tweak tool only that's kind of all in one This is all kind of separated Man, that's cool. That's good What else I'm so far. I'm very impressed Let's see here repo manager is probably to choose like which Maybe mirrors you're using I'm not sure Because Debbie and I believe calls their mirrors repos, right? I'm not actually sure. I've never actually used debris Debian proper before I think I tried to install it one time MX tools so this is where they're all together. Okay USB live maker so that's so you don't have to use a like etcher or something Clean up That's your bash config It's a gooey way to manage your bash aliases what I Mean it's cool, but as a Linux user. I don't really need that I can just I mean I can just go into you know a Terminal and type in them about bash our bash RC And It's easy enough Yeah, I don't need to disclose. I don't need you to ask my permission It's cool. I'm just like I said, I'm not sure that it's necessary. It's uh, you can change prompt Fancy prompt. What does that mean? I don't know what that means There's your fancy fancy fly Control alt T. What does that look like? That's your fancy prompt What else you got Just what wide looks like close this. It's basically the same. It's cool. I suppose um, I don't usually use bash I use zsh. I wonder if they have a way to change the the To zsh easily And video driver and so I wish I don't need to get into this, you know Just normal stuff date and time conky select sound brightness that you're straight tweak It's gonna be that one to choose where the placement of the panel is Cool. I wonder what's under other Other oh, we already looked at this. Okay, cool. All right What else? Welcome system keyboard locale's GPG K key fixture, which is oh, that's pretty cool Cuz you have a lot of problem on arch links every once in a while. You'll have problems with GPG's I'm apparently you have that same problem on Debbie and Okay, so I'm really very impressed with the MX tools thing That reminds me a lot of arco tweak tool Only you can't go through and install other desktop environments with it That's where this falls down But it's it's cool though Yeah, I'm very very very impressed with that. All right, so we went through MX tools office is just Libre office With a couple PDF things. It actually does have two PDF things installed which because we had one up here Under graphics you have One must be an OS like a To what is what do they call OCC OSC something? I don't know. I think until I don't use PDF I mean come on. I who use PD uses PDFs unless you're working in office. I guess System these are just regular system tools All right, so let's go ahead and look at the So they don't actually have here we go system tool I would like to see what themes they have installed. So let's see here Workspace theme They have their own custom theme which This just looks like breeze theme to me Dark one always look better to me the desktop theme Yep, just the normal stuff nothing fancy. I guess you don't really need anything fancy On that is just regular stock Katie wonder do we have like an Never remember where they move the about stuff about system So this is using Katie plasma version 5.14. Ooh, that's behind but it's good Remember, this is Debian and Debian always uses the most stable stable stuff, but I Can't remember. I don't think 514 is the last LTS on of Katie. I might be wrong on that Using the KDE frameworks versions. It doesn't have the apps version here, but I'm guessing the apps version is also significantly behind But again, I want to say that that's not a big deal when you're using Debian your main goal here is always going to be Stability so you want something that's always going to work even if you're way far behind This is not a rolling release like arch where you get everything brand new now They do have repositories where you can go through and install the newer stuff The I think it's called like back ports or something But for the most part which you want is you know For just to work all the time. Nothing ever gonna ever gonna, you know, stop it from working Overall like man, is that really cool? I Don't run games or whatever in a virtual machine. So I'm not gonna give that If you're looking for that experience, you'll have to look on somebody else's channel I don't do a very good job with gaming with 128 megabytes of video RAM Which is all virtual box can do unless you do the whole GPU pass-through thing and I don't have a actual second graphics card in order to do that. So For the most part, I just go through the installation process, which was really good in this case I mean, I highly enjoy that custom installer The MX tools thing is just phenomenal. So To go back to the question I asked at the beginning why is MX Linux so popular now I haven't used this for very long. So I can't proclaim. That's the most stable thing ever, but I know from You know some friends and stuff that are big Debian users Debian is probably the most stable Linux distribution you can use and this is based on Debian so The question I would have is why wouldn't you just use Debian and The answer to that question is obviously the installer for me is way better. I've I vaguely remember trying to install Debian like two years ago or something and the installer is just not as good as This if I remember right second They've done a really good job of making this a polished experience. This is probably one of my favorite KDE You know out of the box experiences that I've had in a virtual machine It's just works the manjara one and the endeavor OS ones are not the same. They're Very laggy. I mean They're that's not the problem of those distros. They just aren't Tooled or whatever to work in a virtual machine very well. So very impressed I mean so Why is man? Why is MX Linux so popular because it seems to be pretty damn good if I like I said earlier if this used If this used arch instead of Debbie, I mean My heart would just you know Die if I moved away from the AUR But man is this tent tempting if if I ever have to go through and Distra hop MX likes might be the one that I choose because that was really good Anyways, if you liked this video give it a thumbs up if he didn't give it a thumbs down I really do appreciate everyone who subscribes to the channel. So make sure you subscribe. I published videos seven days a week One of those is usually a podcast. So make sure to check out the Linux cast you can subscribe and all that kind of stuff And follow us on Twitter and all that we do really do appreciate it. Thanks for watching. I'll see you tomorrow