Welcome to 13mhz Tech

This website is a home for my IT projects.

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As for March 2026,

Windows 11 became unusable

I don't recommend using any version of Windows 11.

Maybe with time I will make Windows 10 LTSC respin, but don't hold your breathe.

I have a good news:

13mhz-MX is coming back!

This time it's based on MXArch, BTW...

13mhz

I am a computer geek for over 40 years, and most of my life is connected to IT and Communications.

I enjoy IT administration and I love music. I like to tinker with operating systems, and these are my projects.

Fell free do download and use it, just keep in mind, that my respins of operating systems are heavily modified, and may not work as expected. I do it for educational purposes only. Nah, i do it for fun mostly. Pictures of the seaside come from East Coast and South Coast of England.

My projects

13mhz-MX Respin

(MXArch, BTW)

From time to time, I buy used laptops and try to find a Linux distro that would work on it. That's how I found MXArch.

Nice Distro to begin with, Arch based MX-Linux KDE version with Wayland.

In order to make it a daily driver, I dewokened the MXArch distro as follows:

1. Xorg is replaced with XLibre.

2. Mozilla Firefox is replaced with Zen Browser,

3. Mozilla Thunderbird is replaced with Betterbird,

4. qBittorrent is replaced with Transmission,

5. I have installed XFCE,

6. I have installed Chris Titus Tech's Linutil,

7. Installed a handful of applications I frequently use and tweaked everything to my liking.

Making long story short, I made 13mhz-MX-26.03 - as much as it's humanly possible in 2026 - Gnome, Mozilla and Rust free.

Please don't get me wrong, Wayland may be useful for things like Waydroid, but for the time being, it's just too slow and too buggy to be a daily driver, and until things get better, Xlibre and XFCE is the way to roll! You can select XFCE on the login screen and here you go.

I didn't mess with systemd, because when you just browsing the web, reading emails and listening to music, you will be fine with s6 or something similar, but if you want to play with virtual machines, install KVM, it's just so much easier with systemd.

13mhz-MX-26.03 comes with 5 kernels:

linux
linux-lts
linux-rt
linux-rt-lts
linux-hardened.

I was thinking about implementing apparmor in hardened kernel, but didn't do it yet.

Shout out and thanks to Chris Titus Tech and The Lunduke Journal.

Download ISO

Download md5

Download torrent

What you will need:

The best method of transferring the iso to usb key is Live USB Maker, as the iso contains grub with 5 kernels.
Raspberry Pi imager may work as well. If it doesn't work, try to change the label of ext4 partition to "26.03.2_x64", as this is the only way to make booting work. Most likely will not boot from Ventoy, but if it does, than happy days!
Rufus is recommended for Windows images.
7zip to unpack images.
Fast USB key of 16GB or more.
Good attitude and some free time.

Windows 10 Respin

For the moment, Windows 10 IoT LTSC 2021 is the only version of Microsoft Windows that makes sense. I may make a respin of it somewhat soon, so stay tuned.