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Hello All,

I've been using some form of Linux since 2007. Even though LL mainly targets Windows users, I find that is suitable for the more advanced Linux users as well. It has a nice blend of sane, simple defaults and minimal bling while also being attractive. Major kudos to the devs.

I haven't extensively tested the distro but a few things stood out to me right away:

• The task manager and screenshot utilities in the desktop right-click menu are very handy and something that I haven't seen in other distros.
  
• I was a little surprised to see that there are no cursor themes installed by default. While I don't mind the no-frills X cursor that LL uses, I imagine new users may like a few options. Was the minimal inclusion of cursors and GTK themes intentional to keep the ISO small? Just curious.
  
• It was nice to see a font other than standard Sans used. Another good font from Google/Android is Roboto.
  
• Everything appears to work OOTB for me on an Acer C720P (chromebook). The only thing that I found a little odd was that my cursor changed to a VERY slanted cursor during the installation process. Obviously it's not a deal breaker but I noticed it.
  

To the devs: Keep up the great work, you've made an excellent distro! The LTS factor is much appreciated when many other distros are trying to be bleeding edge. Thanks!

Welcome , glad that you like the distro , new to the lL forum but not to LL .

Looks like a great bunch in here .

Hello Mike,

Welcome to the Linux Lite community 

Welcome

Thank you all!

Welcome to the forum and community. Happy Thanksgiving

(11-27-2014, 08:47 PM)mlsmith link Wrote: [ -> ]

• I was a little surprised to see that there are no cursor themes installed by default. While I don't mind the no-frills X cursor that LL uses, I imagine new users may like a few options. Was the minimal inclusion of cursors and GTK themes intentional to keep the ISO small? Just curious.
  
• Everything appears to work OOTB for me on an Acer C720P (chromebook). The only thing that I found a little odd was that my cursor changed to a VERY slanted cursor during the installation process. Obviously it's not a deal breaker but I noticed it.
  

Welcome mlsmith, both those issues are fixed with a new default mouse theme in 2.2

How did you install LL on a Chromebook? Would you mind posting a separate tutorial? What works and doesn't work eg. touchscreen. I think people would find this extremely useful. Thank you.

Quote:I think people would find this extremely useful. Thank you.

I second that..
It would be great...
Dave

(12-13-2014, 03:23 AM)Jerry link Wrote: [ -> ]How did you install LL on a Chromebook? Would you mind posting a separate tutorial? What works and doesn't work eg. touchscreen. I think people would find this extremely useful. Thank you.

I can certainly do that. It has gotten MUCH easier to configure since the release of the 3.17 kernel. Previously I had to compile additional modules to get the touchpad and touchscreen working. After installing 3.17+ (I'm currently using your 3.18) almost everything works without much configuration. There are a couple of other tweaks that I do as well to fine tune it which I can mention in the tut.