r/MXLinux • • 1d ago

Help request Sleeping problem

9 Upvotes

tl;dr MX-23.6_KDE_x64, the proprietary NVidia driver breaks the sleep mode. Any fixes except using nouveau?

I've had a similar problem before, as described in this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/MXLinux/comments/1szqci7/mx_23_kde_doesnt_wake_up_anymore/ , after some updates the system would go to sleep but wouldn't wake up, at that time I solved it by removing the "liquorix" kernel (6.18.something) and downgrading back to 6.1.0-17 (any "liquorix" kernel newer than that caused that problem). After some more of the recent (the end of September) updates, the (same?) problem is back again, even with the default 6.1.0-17 kernel - now it doesn't even go to sleep, just sort of "hiccups" for a second and keeps working as if nothing happened.

I was also trying MX-25.3 KDE on a different drive a few days ago, and noticed that the sleeping/waking up was working (with the default 6.12.107 kernel) until I installed the proprietary NVidia drivers, and if I remove them, it starts working again. So the problem on 23.6 could have also been not with the kernel, but with the NVidia drivers and how they communicate with the kernel?

What to do? Is there an easy way to downgrade the proprietary NVidia drivers? Or any settings/parameters to try? Searching the internet, I've found an advice to use `nvidia_drm.modeset=1` kernel parameter, I've tried that, no effect.

The CPU is Intel Core i7-6700K; the GPU is GeForce RTX 2060.


r/MXLinux • • 1d ago

Review Today I did some things in MX Linux that I don't fully understand, but the day still went well.

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r/MXLinux • • 1d ago

Help request Why doesn't the touchscreen work?

3 Upvotes

I have a Framework 12 with MX Linux + KDE Official.

The touchscreen generally works fine, but I have a stylus I can't use, because it isn't doing palm rejection when the stylus is in range.

I've been pulling my hair over this. It seems to be a KDE thing. I've learned that some systems handle touchscreen with linux-surface, or libinput, or iptsd, but I don't find config files for any of these in MX Linux.

How does it handle the touchscreen and stylus?


r/MXLinux • • 2d ago

Screenshot Just back to MXLinux

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56 Upvotes

Just back to MXLinux xfce after long time!!!


r/MXLinux • • 3d ago

Help request Issue regarding plymouthd on start

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7 Upvotes

I recently installed MX and did not encounter this issue for a week or so.

But now every time I turn on my computer, it prints out this backtrace.

I can press Control-D to continue and boot as usual. Or I can enter my root password to get a shell.

I tried re-installing plymouth but that didn't solve the issue.

I'm still able to use the computer as normal, but needing to wait for it to boot so I can press Ctrl+D is annoying. So I'd like to find a way to fix it.

Please don't ask AI on my behalf, I already tried that. And it never manages to solve my issue.


r/MXLinux • • 3d ago

Help request CAN'T EVEN START, how can I revert to older kernel?

5 Upvotes

Hello, I'm using MX 25.2 on a Macbook Air 2013 (I5-4250U, 4GB Soldered RAM, 128GB SSD), and it keeps crashing after roughly 1 hour of usage or completely can't even start at all anymore. I remember when using MX 23, I didn't have any of these problems?

A bit of an urgent request. Much appreciated. Thanks all.


r/MXLinux • • 3d ago

Help request How do I get rid of the awful blue on everything?

5 Upvotes

I have gone through every theme, every color, every option I can find, but I can't get rid of the infernal BLUE!

It's on every active tab, it's the window borders (when active) it's every highlight... I just can't get rid of it.

Is there any way to change this to another colour?


r/MXLinux • • 3d ago

Help request Browser causes pc to freeze

2 Upvotes

So whenever anything chromium or in general browser based happens my entire system just freezes and I need to hard reboot. It's mainly an issue on GMOD since whenever I join a server it freezed

My specs are:

Mainboard: Asus M5A78L-M LE/USB3

CPU: AMD FX 4100 mit 3,60 GHz

GPU: ASUS Radeon HD 7670

RAM: 16GB DDR3

GPU: HD 7670


r/MXLinux • • 4d ago

Blog It all leads back to MX Linux...

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29 Upvotes

I've been distro hopping on my T450s for months now and I'm pretty sure I've tried more than 20 linux distros, different desktop environments etc. And in the end I always keep on coming back to MX Linux XFCE.

So I have a unique case (kind-off), I'm dual booting Windows 11 and Linux on this laptop since I can't get rid of Windows (because of the data that's in) and at same time I couldn't do anything other than browsing on Windows here, even the browsing to tell you the truth lags alot. Then it occurred to me, an idea "What if I dual boot a linux distro on here?". Like I just want to be able to browse stuff and learn some coding.

My experience with Linux before-hand was: I tried Ubuntu back in the day maybe once in 2020 and once in 2022 and let's just say, the experience was bad, I wasn't even able to install it properly or whatever (I can't remember clearly). Then last year I randomly had a thirst for Linux after seeing so many people's rices on YouTube and Reddit. Now the thirst was mainly for Arch-Linux, "the hardest operation system to install", I wanted to conquer it, be able to install it WITHOUT the use of autoinstall/autoscript basically the easy route. So I tried and let's just say I failed miserably LOL, 3-4 hours down the line and ending up with failure, then on my route of research I learned there's Arch based distros, so I tried Manjaro KDE and I loved it not gonna lie, it felt really good, and of course EASY to install. I still tried to install Arch and I failed again lmao. Anyhow back to present, before the T450s, I installed this certain distro MX Linux XFCE on my old Lenovo G570 and also DELL Lattitude 3380 or was it 3370 I can't remember, and it just ran great! It felt smooth. It didn't feel that outdated, browsing was normal. So I installed the same on this one and first time in ages I saw smooth performance in T450s. Though i won't lie, the looks were kinda meh, so I tried Ubuntu next and it felt so nice. The UI and everything GNOME3, though it did feel heavy on the resources a bit.

Keep in mind I only made 45gb seperate for Linux and the specs are i7 5th gen, 8gb ram,.

Then I tried Linux Mint (many versions) it felt the same, then I distro hopped alot in these recent months basically July, August and September. Like I'm pretty sure I installed, reinstalled distros like 100+ times. And many times I just kept coming back to MX Linux.

In the end, it satisfies all my needs and also just works like quite literally, it just works.

Tldr; I distro-hopped probably 100+ times and always kept coming back to MX Linux XFCE.


r/MXLinux • • 4d ago

Help request MX linux is not working on AMD

3 Upvotes

I have hp 245 g5 laptop in which i installed mx linux and attempted to change graphic kernel from radeon to amd you know for reason of support for modern vulkan support. It's not like it's my first time I did it in previous os like linux mint xfce and garuda xfce and I was successful but when I did it on MX it gone back to radeon I forced it to AMD and screen gone blank.


r/MXLinux • • 4d ago

Help request Distro Decisions

3 Upvotes

I have a tower computer with Fedora, which is my main computer. It was assembled from parts, so no particular brand or anything. It has AMD CPU and GPU and an AsRock motherboard (it was the cheap option compatible with the CPU at the time).

I also own a Framework 12 laptop/tablet hybrid. I use it as a typewriter and to make sketches with a stylus. It used to have installed Mint, but the support of Wayland in Mint is garbage and my sketching app, RNote stopped supporting X11, it just emulates the mouse with the stylus.

So for a while I experimented with Nobara OS and I'm feeling like it's more fitting for the main computer. Is very much like Fedora, it just doesn't have it's head up its ass with things like codecs or drivers, and is loaded with gaming oriented apps. The only games I play on the FW12 are card games.

The stylus seems to work better with Nobara, but there was a problem I wondered if it would go away in MX Linux. There are a lot of friendly features in MX Linux and it seems to have everything I need.

BTW, if you made Fluxbox a tiling window manager I would probably use more of it, but I digress.

I switched to Plasma MX Linux. Rnote seems to work just as well as in Nobara, so maybe the problem isn't OS specific, but I want to know if there's some configuration I could tweak to fix this.

Palm rejection on the touchscreen (not the touchpad) seems to be erratic or not be there at all. If I'm bringing the stylus close to the screen, it should ignore the hands touching it. This would work fine in Mint before RNote stopped supporting X11.

I don't see much information in the manuals about this, nor the system settings.


r/MXLinux • • 6d ago

MX News Week Ending September 26, 2026

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24 Upvotes

r/MXLinux • • 7d ago

Help request I know the ISOs are ready, but I still can't upgrade my existing 25.2 to 25.3. Are the upgrades live yet?

12 Upvotes

Title says it all. If it still takes a few days, fine. No problem. Just wondering if there's something wrong on my end.

Edit: TL;DR it was the mirror MX Linux had chosen at installation that apparently weren't updated yet. Changed the mirror, everything worked.


r/MXLinux • • 8d ago

Help request Plasmashell crash?

5 Upvotes

Is anyone here having sudden plasmashell crash?? First it the dolphin was crashing and not opening, then I restarted the system it didn't restarted so I shutdowned it with power button.

But now the plasmashell is just crashing and I am seeing black screen.

Is there any solution to this issue, I want to use my laptop badly cause I want to submit the exam in couple hours 🙂

P.S. The laptop was on and not been shutdown in couple days.

Specs: Dell Inspiron 7-something model.

Hybrid graphics with nvidia 750M card.


r/MXLinux • • 9d ago

Help request Apple Mouse A1197 Issue

2 Upvotes

Got the above working using the Blueman Bluetooth device manager, but it does not autoconnect when I restart.

I have to open the manager and double click using the trackpad, should I remove the other mouse I have installed to get it to autoconnect?

Thanks


r/MXLinux • • 10d ago

Help request Need help with my pc

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10 Upvotes

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So I've gotten a new pc and simply inserted my old HDD into it. Issues is I got these errors and didn't get past the boot screen of MX. I've also tried reinstalling MX via my usb but it stops around "sys init". I don't quite know what to do and I hope somebody could help me.

These are my specs:

* AMD FX-8150 Prozessor

* NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB

* 16GB Corsair DDR4 RAM

* ASUS Mainboard

* be quiet! System Power 9 – 400W


r/MXLinux • • 10d ago

Help request Hello, I have Windows 7 and downloaded MX Linux. I prepared a bootable USB flash drive using Rufus, but my computer refuses to boot from it. What solutions can I try?

8 Upvotes

r/MXLinux • • 10d ago

Help request Plasma Updates

9 Upvotes

How often does MX Linux get Plasma updates? The current version 6.3.x has bugs I'm running into but they are fixed in 6.4.x and 6.5.x.

For now I've switched to KDE Neon but I'd prefer to be on MX Linux.


r/MXLinux • • 11d ago

Discussion Gaming

5 Upvotes

Who games on MX Linux and which fames do you run, also a genral review of the MX Linux Os , want to switch from Zorin os to MX Linux


r/MXLinux • • 11d ago

Help request Need help with GPU

9 Upvotes

I've been having trouble with my Radeon HD7770 on mxlinux. I've installed system upgrades and updated and later on switched the graphics in the bios to GFX0. However, then I would not get a signal from my graphics card (which was plugged into my monitor via HDMI) and no signal when I unplugged it and plugged the VGA back into the mothebrou


r/MXLinux • • 12d ago

MX 25.3 isos now available

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49 Upvotes

r/MXLinux • • 12d ago

Discussion Release of MX-25.3

32 Upvotes

r/MXLinux • • 13d ago

Solved Made a lightweight offline TTS GUI for MX Linux (eSpeak, Festival, PicoTTS)

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Hey r/MXLinux,

I’ve been using MX Linux for a while and wanted a quick, offline way to generate text-to-speech audio clips without having to mess around in the terminal every single time or install heavy web-based tools.

Most GUI TTS apps I found were either way too bloated, required internet/cloud APIs, or were a pain to configure on Debian-based distros. So I decided to build a simple, lightweight GUI using Python and Tkinter called TTS Director.

It acts as a clean frontend for traditional offline Linux engines: espeak-ng, festival, and pico2wave. You can select the engine, tweak pitch, speed, and voice variants (for espeak), preview the audio, and export it straight to a .wav file.

Why I created it: I wanted something fast, 100% offline, and native-feeling that runs great on lightweight hardware without hogging RAM. I also do a lot of stuff with old-school/robotic sound effects, so having a quick panel to dial in pitch/speed for espeak and save .wav files directly to disk saved me a lot of time.

I wrote a simple installation script (install.sh) that installs the required TTS packages via apt and sets up a menu entry in MX Linux automatically.

Repo is here if you want to give it a try or check the code:

https://github.com/ianmasterpro01-del/tts-engine-collection

It’s open source under Apache 2.0. Let me know if you run into any bugs or have feedback for MX!


r/MXLinux • • 13d ago

MX News Week Ending September 19, 2026

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14 Upvotes

r/MXLinux • • 13d ago

Help request running into issues with appimage and bash permissions as root

2 Upvotes

Hey everyone,

I'm running the newest version of AVLinux which is based on MX Linux based on Debian 13, and I seem to be having issues running executable appimages as well as bash files. Even as root, I'm being denied permission. This is limiting my ability to use certain programs and configure my machine how I want, and I was wondering if anyone would be able to help me resolve this. From what I've read online, there might be some kind of security layer preventing me from doing these things, but I don't have any installed that I know of.

Any help would be greatly appreciated and I'd be glad to give more context if necessary.