LinuxCNC Install using MX Linux 19.4 - Geared Toward New Users - Discussion

Quite welcome, happy to help.

Funny you should ask that because I was wondering the same thing just today. I was going to set up another pc for test stuff in the winter (cold in the garage ), the PC I have ear-marked for that is totally different than the PC at my machine, so I'll test it out and swap the drives one of these days (maybe sat/sun) and report back.

Will what exactly work on 32 vs 64?

The images are different 32 to 64, so I'd guess swapping drives for different architectures would not work.  

At first glance it looks very promising MX 19.4 and simple. it has the root filemanager, file search and other nice things. the cnc seems to work well I also try the plasma so with only one system I do both, just a spare disk for safety.

snowgoer540 wrote:

Will what exactly work on 32 vs 64?

The images are different 32 to 64, so I'd guess swapping drives for different architectures would not work.  

Yes. I was really asking if the qt would work on either. I have pc's with 32 and 64 bit architectures.

I suppose I should go with 64.

I believe Qt is good to go on both 32 bit and 64 bit.  Though honestly I have not tried it on 32 bit.

Thanks snowgoer540 for putting this all together.

I'm just about to get a second PC and load this all up then swap out the one in the shed running the CNC.

Dont want to overwrite the shed one as same as other people, can't have the machine down & no internet in the shed yet.

I'll let you know how 'dummy proof' you have made the instructions.

Cheers