I am working on windows 10 currently. I was wondering if MX Linux could be installed directly from online. Thanks for taking the time to reply.

  • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
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    17 hours ago

    What’s your use case? If you want to replace Windows on your device then the answer is not really, however, if you just want a Linux shell then you can pretty much one click install a Linux distro inside of Windows with WSL2

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      16 hours ago

      Currently my windows 10 is running on 4gb ram. At least MX Linux would be better in this case ??

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        14 hours ago

        Almost every linux distro is better on RAM than Windows. That said, application memory management has gotten pretty sloppy over the past decade or so. I boot into MX linux (KDE) on my 16GB RAM laptop, and I am using about 2GB after boot. Once I load my password manager and open my browser (Librewolf with 18 tabs) I am sitting at 5.4GB used.

        But! Even when this laptop had only 4GB RAM, it always ran MX fast and never complained about low memory.

        Edit: Try the xfce version of MX linux. I think it’s the lightest on resources, or it used to be.

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          4 hours ago

          I would actually adopt the fluxbox, because l wish to switch over to evilwm eventually.