From Noob To Power User With MX Linux
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- In this edition of "From Noob To Power User" I will be taking MX Linux and customizing it slightly to fit my workflow. This will include theming, some software installations, setting keybindings, shell aliases and some other essential changes (in my opinion).
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MX Linux is a good distro to run off a USB stick, as it has that optional mode to load it all into RAM at boot, then save it back to the USB on shutdown... I don't know why I'm writing this, I'm sure everyone is aware... I just want attention I guess. 👀💦
I mean, this comment isn't the most unnecessary tho
That's actually good info to know for beginners of Linux
Haha, cheers. I was more or less being silly. Though to be fair, while they do advertise it, MX Linux could be a little clearer with their terminology and instructions on how to use this mode and make sure it's working. Maybe it's gotten better since I last checked! :) And besides, their documentation overall is very good.
To anyone interested in. This info should get you started. -- there's an MX blog post called: Do cool stuff with live-USBs. Note that you might think it's working when it's not, so I'd say follow along with a person who goes through the installer on YT. Also, TERMS you'd want to lookup would be: "antix live system", "persistence", "snapshotting", "frugal", and "remastering". Hope this helps. ✌️
Can you explain to me what was the config file he requested in the terminal to get removed?
He didn't explain it in the video.
And why did he removed only that file?
Finally my distro... Lol
Finally! ;)
It's my too. Many think MX shouldn't be number one on distrowatch. It's my number one distro. So I don't see why not.
@@gimcrack555 I like dt but still he does not even look at it properly... You can change the position of the bar from mx tools and you don't have to break their theme to do it
And the coolest thing is the imager tool with which you can make custom ISOs with as little effort as possible like it will convert your current installation into an ISO which you deploy on other computers with all your programs and your settings like a regular live CD installer.... What can be more cool then that.
@@safi164 lmao
I'm almost 11 minutes into the video and I learned nothing about MX. come on. and as you said: this is what I always do with every distro. so, no. we don't need a 4th repetitive "let's download my config from git"
I noticed that it's in first place on DistroWatch but i've never seen someone talking about it on youtube for some reason, I found out about this distro last week (i'm starting on linux but still).
So can someone explain why is it in first place? Also your videos are so good DT, i've been learning a lot with you even though i started recently.
DistroWatch isn't an actual measure of downloads, users or popularity. It's unfortunate because so many people assume it is, including some tech "journalists". I would guess that MX doesn't have even a fraction of the install base of things like Manjaro, Mint, Fedora or Arch. And I would bet everything that I own that MX doesn't even have 1% of the installs of either Ubuntu or Debian. That doesn't make MX bad. That doesn't make those bigger distros good either. Who cares about popularity! It's just unfortunate that DistroWatch is taken seriously as a metric of Linux popularity.
@@DistroTube Ohhh i see now, ty for explaining to me, keep up the amazing work DT :)
people click on the MX Linux link too much
There's always been videos on youtube about MX Linux.
DW rankings are just clicks on those pages. It gets weird when everyone clicks on one of the top distros thinking "what even is this?" and then they boost it higher without meaning to.
I'm so happy to see a Greek linux distro be so popular!
Im Greek , but I have never heard of MX being Greek ?
@@mariolis Yes, I didn't know until recently either. The main developers are actually from Greece!
Coming from Windows and being used to the task bar being at the bottom, I always found it strange that Linux predominantly had the task bar at the top. it's only since using Linux that I've actually thought about the placement and yes, it really does make sense. So even my Windows task bar is now at the top.
But that's the great thing about Linux - you can take pretty much any distribution and make it look and behave to a certain extent how you like it, regardless of distro.
Thank you for all DT! The best linux channel!!!!!
Hey, thanks for that! :D
Don’t alias sudo commands in your bashrc. A malicious program or attacker with user-level access could change your bashrc to match a different command to that alias. When you run it, you’ll run that command with root permission, blindly trusting that it has not changed.
Instead, you can write a bash script, make sure it can only be modified by root, and then symlink it to /bin. Interestingly, sudo can run a symlink in /bin, but bash won’t. Anyway, that’s the secure way of doing sudo aliases. It’s more work, but security often entails more work.
I like to put aliases in .bash_aliases, which is standard
I have never done this, lol
@@Tn5421Me using that file is standard, so much so that many distros put it in their default bashrc, including the one in the video
Pls do a „from noob to power user“ on OpenSUSE (Tumbleweed)
Noob to power user on Pop Os 22.04
You can flip the contents of the bar with MX Tweak as well whenever you use the Affects 1st Panel settings under the Panel Tab, it happens automatically whenever you choose a different way to display the panel.
I typically love all the videos that you make, but I am a little disappointed with this videos claim. I am a new Linux user and chose MX Linux as my first distro. I felt that this video was more about how to install dmenu on mx Linux than it was about making a noob into a stronger user on the system they downloaded. I love your arch vids , so much I am thinking about using the arch script and set up a system in virt-manager. I just would have liked more about what the system comes with , than how to change the programs that are in the typical install of MX. Thank you for all your hard work. Not trying to be a nit picking ass......
You can change the position of the panel using the MX Tweaks tool. This then moves menu items into their correct place. Using the Mode drop down just uses the default XFCE position, so will take MX Linux panel items and mirror their positon if you move to the top.
Use MX Tweaks!!
Another GREAT masterpiece bro. Not watch your wideo a lot but know You are real important person in liux world and my respect to you. Like to her how simple work on linux could be using your ways doing it simple. Thanks for it. Have a nice day and night with all of this. Is perfect. Greet
These are not "power-user" changes, these are just your (wrong) preferences.
DT, you're confusing app shortcuts and window shortcuts :) Different settings, at least on XFCE.
To easily rearrange panel items, use the 'Items' tab of the Panel Preferences pane. You just highlight an item, then use the arrows to move it up or down.
yeah you nuked the panel DT :)
Similar to what we do in mint xfc
nice work dt!! you've really highlighted one of the main strengths of linux; making your machine *yours*, making it do what *you* want it to do. what you just did would have seemed like magic to me as a new linux user.
Can you do a “from noob to power user” with gentoo?
that's... contradictory
@@jabuxas It was a joke
@@tylerdean980 😳
@@jabuxas lol he literally mentions gentoo at the end of the video, I made that comment before watching all the way through.
@@tylerdean980 when he mentions it? i didn't watch all the way through.
I have found Mx Linux to be the best everything works well on an old dell d430
I really want to see "From Power User To Noob" now.
noob to power user on fedora 36
You always mention that everything happens on the top left, and you even mentioned the browser, I would love to know these days if you don’t have a global menu, which windows and most Linux distros do not have, what is on the top left, your browsers control is on the top right, GTK3/4 and QT are moving controls to a control menu on the top right, my point I don’t see what you always complain about this
I begun with Lubuntu, than Linux Mint now going full Debian.
i tried mx linux in many different computers and also with xfce, openbox and kde, and a very positive point is that recognizes well the hardware. In many distros, is typical to spend time looking for wifi drivers. Anyone knows why MX has this positive point?
I really have gone from a complete noob to an intermediate Arch user because of you and your channel. I am also practising installing arch over and over on my virtual machine so if there are any problems I will know most of the commands off by heart. I'm using a tiling window manager within KDE but I think soon I will be confident enough to ditch the DE completely.
i think the mint one was the best still good vid
MX Linux is just really good.
Everything in it is solid, reliable, and the MX Tools are very useful.
Some people compare it to oldschool Ubuntu, and it's understandable why.
I was having trouble with things breaking, and stability issues on my usual rolling distro choices (Manjaro, Solus, Fedora).
I use a AMD advantage laptop so a newer kernel is mandatory, luckily the MX repos have a 5.17 kernel making this a really solid gaming setup.
If I could complain about one thing, it's having a slightly dated Mesa (21.2.5)
@distrotube Thanks! My geany has never looked this good until now! great little trick!
I‘m a power noob.
00:10 i do just like you : i get spoons and cut in the metal to transform them into forks.. Don't really why i don't get forks in the first place though, maybe you can tell me... ?
I love terminator, its better option
You have a problem on this Video.... you just editing in Geany for Aliases.... for "sudo apt update" & sudo apt upgrade" in your Terminal.... but after you ran those commands, it said no updates/upgrades available.... Yet, your Empty Green Box in the side plane has turned GREEN... Meaning you have UPDATES/UPGRADES.....!!!!!
Hi there. I have Mint on a Asus Zenbook, 500g ssd, 16mb ram. The bootloader is locked and is uefi. I want to try MX Linux, but I see it uses grub instead. How do I go about this? I'm quite new to Linux.
Can you explain what a Power user is?
Why not build Alacritty from source the same way you did with dmenu?
I'm surprised you installed neofetch when you mention it's bloat.
An excellent guide to this very stable and robust OS as well as very good learning lesson of the Debian terminal commands and power user tweaks! Thank you👍
Some terminals, including xfce4-terminal, can be run with --maximize flag to fill the screen on startup. Personally I like my terminal always maximized, with no scrollbar, no menu and no borders, looks really nice this way and uses all the available space for output.
It's sudO not sudu.
i love these kind of vids
mx linux fails at formatting hard drive says error occurred .. but Debian 11 installed no problem on same drive???? any answer to this problem
You should rename this video to something like "my personal settings for a linux distro" to not waste time of people who came here to learn about MX Linux
Please show somebody window manager tile. I have ultra wideo screen and I cant configure it...
I always worry that if I install something like mint Debian edition the desktop they provide is not very lightweight. so if I go in there and make changes will the fact that those packages are already on there weigh things down anyways?
Not sure why the panel location and icons bothered you. Just move them...done.
Ha! I thought you were going to help Noobs get set up!!!!??? LOL!
Hey DT thanks for the videos, what do you say to the people that say that Xmonad is a lot of haskell bloat ? I grinded for a month, finally got it the way I wanted it only to move to dwm LOL. LMAO from poweruser to newb on gentoo.
The only "bloat" part of installing XMonad is that you have to install GHC (the Haskell compiler). The Haskell compiler is about 300M in size, not a huge program, but not tiny either. But many programs require the compiler for their language to be installed on you computer. The thing with Haskell is that most people don't already have Haskell installed...so they claim it's BLOAT!
I'd argue that if you don't have Haskell installed, then you are missing out on some FANTASTIC programs:
- xmonad, xmobar
- pandoc (works on Windows, Mac, Linux and is a standard!)
- shellcheck (if you do any shell scripting, you NEED this program!)
- git-annex
- movie-monad
- darcs (version control system and alternative to git)
And so many more!
To close windows, I tend to prefer Super + W or Super Shift W
There are 217,000 Arch users on Reddit.
There are 5,900 MxLinux users on same. Doodahmath baybee.
Maybe it's because the arch users are all asking for help, while MX users are busy using their super stable system to do something better with their time.
@@sergiynazarenko1542 Speculation means nothing. A fact is a fact. More information would assist.
MX is my Internet VM. I love it. The tools are amazing.
1:50
For me as windows user i prefer and become used to the menu button to be at the bottom.
That's exactly why the developers decided to put it there.
my daily driver because of its speed and stability.
too advanced for a noob like me and what is a super key
Are you had to do was go to items on that deskbar and remove the separator
Why would anyone use this linux rubbish.
Personally, I think DistroWatch's ranking isn't necessary a ranking, just a measure of "what is the distribution that's on the news recently" kinda thing
Latest Highlighted Distro of the Day of that sort
Try out from noob to power user on Pop!_OS.
They should have the panel correctly configured on the bottom of the screen by default.
The developers of MX Linux actually created it to use for themselves, and that's how they like it. For document creation, it's great. However, there is a simple to use tool that will relocate the panel to wherever you want in a couple of clicks, and rearrange the panel items to match the position.
Noob to Power User for Pop!_OS? :^)
Please do fedora next
tried to install on vanessa linux mint 21, but was unable to install your version of dmenu :S almost same errors but at the end got another one and got stuck in it, also was unable to install it in debian bookworm... debian unstable
I have one issue with Geany. Occasionally it segfault and each time it occurs i have to open its config file and delete all tabs part.
the conky is helpful
I like the MX terminal.
Your logic for arranging icons on the left side is sound, but my problem with putting the application menu up top is that it is guaranteed to pop up over, and cover, the window you've got up there. And quite often I put my primary window in that corner. It shouldn't be an issue--just open the new program and the menu goes away. But so often, in between opening the menu and finding the application I want, I'll want to read, re-read or just check something in my main window. But now it's blocked until I either close the menu or open a new application.
I probably gonna install mx linux just for the wallpaper and the clock
you can get the clock (system monitor) on some other distros too, its a program called conky
@@nicecream0 I did, but somehow it's seems quite buggy
Noob to power user on any of the arch-based distros? Manjaro or Arch maybe?
16:42 by default xfce has the Alt key as floating modifier, so you can hold Alt + left mouse button to drag window or right mouse button to resize. Also, you can change Alt to Mod key for that in "window manager tweaks"
Is this an auction?
The task bar must be on the right. It's only logical.
I only know xfce
i know this is unrellated but how do i close all windows in gnome except the window in focus
I come from Greece and I am so glad a greek Linux distro is so famous!
I have MX
Spacevim and Starship prompt??
Great Video!! Just try to add timestamps please
I don't use half the keybindings you do, but it makes me cringe when you save something in a text editor with the mouse instead of control + S. 🙃
Maybe due to more visual feedback, whether for himself or the sake of the viewer.
Can you do a video about How to Rice I3?
How come that mx linux debian manjaro and other distros built on systemd took minute and half to boot on mechanicall drive but devuan with openrc 15/25sec?
MX doesn't use systemd
@@sergiynazarenko1542 Systemd isn't the default, but you can have MX Linux boot using Systemd. It's usually an option at startup.
@@johnf7683 yep, but I think the original commenter missed this point entirely by lumping it in with those other distros.
GVDT.
These are my hopes as a linux enthusiast
Noob User: OPening the terminal with the mouse
Power user: I discovered ctrl + alt + T
Super Power user. My wifi doesn´t disappear after I reboot
Mega power user: I can finally use my HP printer, even though I have like 70 versions of the drivers installed and to be frankly I dont know which of those is the one working so I won´t delete anything
Illumination: I multitask from app to app using commands
what is a printer?
@@janwan-lan2330 a peripheral machine that makes a persistent representation on paper and usually, not always, hates Linux.
@@MicroClases_Ciencia thanks for the answere, can you show me some pictures?
@@janwan-lan2330 Iam trying to get the drivers of this particular model, maybe you can help me th-cam.com/video/A_vXA058EDY/w-d-xo.html
I'd love to see one of these videos on the latest Fedora.
Btw. I use VoidLinux
next Noob to Power User in Manjaro KDE
I was thiiiiiiiiiiiissssss close to doing just that. But being Arch-based and having so much of my personal stuff packaged for Arch, it seemed like it would be "cheating".. :D
These Noob to Power User videos are interesting, but are so much unnecessary work for easy to use distros like MX Linux, or Mint, etc. I doubt that any noob would bother with all this.
I would like to see arch. Getting from having almost nothing to your preferred workflow would be interesting
Dtos
alias g='geany & disown'
# now you can continue to use your terminal, and even close it, without geany going away.
I've used 'alt+grave' for opening a terminal since about day 5 of my using Linux. Just because quite a few games use the '`' key for bringing up a cheat console, I guess...
Is grave another word for tab?
@@uuu12343 it's the key right above tab
@@uuu12343 backtick