Comparing ram and cpu usage of antiX and MX 21 on low spec hardware 

Hello Dolphin 🐬 , just wanted to say that MX and Antix are my #'s 1&2 Distros Big Time since 2016 and totally enjoy your videos on them , Thank You for all of the information on them. Stay safe

MX and Antix, are two of the few distros available, that still provide a 32bit version, that is current, which is nice. RU-vid playback is pretty good in Puppy Linux, as well, also at 360p. Sometimes 480p, is doable.

Thanks a lot for the effort to make Antix Linux more interesting for a lot of people who have a old pc or laptop somewhere I have a old crappie ones eeepc 4g and Acer with 1gbr ram Antiix 19 on a Dell Dimension C521 AMD Athlon X2 4gb ram, other Dell Dimension 5150 P 4 HT and old this old ones working-class computers

Thanks for another informative video and, of course for two brilliant operating systems.

Thank you for making these videos for the GNU/Linux community @DolphinOracle🐬 - MX Linux has chosen me as the user of it's choice :) !!!

Great vid mate!! I put MX Linux on one of those eeepc's for a work mate a number of years ago, I cannot remember which version, he's since retired not sure if he still uses it or not, it was his travel computer, it was running good enough with MX!! 👍

Greetings, thank you, I learn a lot from your presentation

Just installed MX on my old laptop and it change from a slow machine as a snail, become as fast as ferrari. Thank you MX developers! Kudos!!

Lightweight WMs (like fluxbox, jwm and icewm) are something that reminds you how fast all software on your good old hardware should be, in contrary to "more and more hardware demanding software".

Informative video, thanks.

I’m running MX21 Linux on a MSI U100 Netbook is similar to the EEE Netbook and it works absolutely fine -Video watching and Mail stuff doing. Take care.

Thanks for the great video Dolphin!!! Smtube is a solution for these machines.... i usually run mpv --ytdl-format=18 video url. This will play a video in 360....of course mpv and youtube-dl must be installed on your system...

Excellent video. I have a n270 netbook and antix is the only viable option now. I would just add 2 things. Goto repos and install all realtek drivers to run your usb wifi sticks. I also would recommend installing bleachbit and clean about 1 gb of garbage after install.

Great video. I’ve used both MX and Antix over the years. But on older machines, I prefer using Puppy, especially Slacko. The save function is easier to understand for me for some reason and I like running the OS completely from the usb stick.

Great video! Thanks! I also use the venerable "free" command to measure memory consumption. Another trick is the command: echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches This frees up as much buffer and cache memory as possible. It is particularly useful when testing memory consumption while running live to see how much memory is actually available. We made use of these two tools a lot when we were trying to keep memory consumption to a minimum on antiX. On my system now (uptime over a month) this freed up over 10 GiB while 1.6 GiB was still being used, 447 MiB of that was for tmpfs: df -m | grep tmpfs | awk '{sum += $3} END{print sum}' We also looked at the dmesg output. At some point we were able to tweak the kernel to give more free memory to the user but I don't know if this works/applies anymore. Our general strategy was to test test test (with numerical results) whatever we wanted to optimize, usually memory consumption and boot speed. Faster booting also meant faster testing.

are you open to the idea of having a matrix room for the community ?? also, may I request to add AppImage packaging tools ??

VERRY GOOD!!!!!!

off topic question but is there a notification log anywhere, or some way of looking back through past notifications?

Antix & MX are like u and the team, awesome, mind blowing but............but use with caution giggles

i have a dell tablet with a atom processor and 4 GB. Do you think antix will run on it? Your channel is awesome!!

SMTube does a **much** better job playing YT than a browser, I agree. But, will it play a front-end or Odysee? haven't tried it yet.

I've got old Athlon 64 however only with 2 Gigs of RAM so 32 bit system its better for it. This PC has dedicated PCIE ATI graphics card with 256 MB dedicated video memory. What OS would you recommend for casual use Internet browsing, RU-vid watching and Office suite use?

In 2019 I had to be hospitalized for a couple of months and I needed something portable. I had this eepc lying around and I hesitated between puppy, antix and..believe it or not, chrome os. I ended up with chrome os. Now, I needed something quickly, capable of doing more or less what my phone could do, given the, at the time, conditions. The MAIN reason why I put chrome os on it was wireless. Both pup and antix struggled with wireless. Choppy vids and such. But chrome os didn't glitch for a sec. I've been doing linux close to twenty years now and chrome os is the last thing I'd put on any rig, but, there we were. It all came down to wireless.

Where can I get the MX stickers??

maybe MX FLUXBOX instead of xfce? great video and very useful for me.

please consider uploading to a video site that isn't publicly-traded. trying to diversify so the control-freaks don't have so much control over me. yes, I will be watching you on a front-end

Is MX Linux SystemD free?

My problem is my Nvidia chipset on my Lenovo T61. I need the 5.4 kernel and the 340.108 Nvidia driver. I tried MX Linux 21 with the nouveau drive and it was horrible. My system has a dual core Pentium 64 bit processor and 4GB of RAM. It works fine with Linux Mint 20.3. Linux Mint 20.3 does have the 5.4 kernel and 340.108 drivers. Linux Mint 21 doesn't. Their is a ppa for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Mint 21 that integrates the 340.108 driver with the newer kernels. I just hate the idea of having to throw away a perfectly good Thinkpad just because of the stupid graphics chipset.

a more fair comparison would have been mx fluxbox vs antix