MX Linux comes from a collaboration between the antiX community and veterans of the discontinued MEPIS project, and the result has a large and active user community. Its base is Debian stable, its default boot arrangement uses sysVinit while keeping systemd components available for compatibility, and its flagship desktop is a carefully tuned Xfce, with official KDE Plasma and Fluxbox editions alongside. What most distinguishes MX is its toolbox: the MX Tools collection covers turning a running system into an installable snapshot ISO, driver setup, package selection from multiple sources, and dozens of smaller chores, each behind a simple graphical utility. The antiX heritage also brings excellent live-USB features with persistence. MX suits pragmatic users who want a stable system with unusually good self-service tooling. With OpenFactory, a browser session gets you into those tools in minutes rather than an afternoon.
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Need MX Linux for more than a quick browser preview?
The buttons above launch an ephemeral browser VM, perfect for kicking the tires. Paid plans unlock the things you'd actually use it for:
- ✓Persistent VMs you can SSH into and customize
- ✓Snapshots, your own packages, a downloadable ISO
- ✓Fleet deployment to your own machines (on-prem or cloud)