Introduction and questions

[bitsnpcs]

Hello JanetBiggar,

Welcome to the forum and Linux Lite

re;#2 -
@Jerry recently began Super Lite Mode you can read about it in this thread
https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/linux-lite-software-development/super-lite-mode-for-lite-tweaks/msg34281/?topicseen#msg34281

re;#1- IMO if it can run Linux Lite, it should run Linux Lite

re;#3 I don't know about using laptops with Linux.

re;#4 I don't use screensavers, I never used it, to save the screen you can press the button to turn it off.

re;#5 Linux will not run/execute Windows virus. If you dual boot a computer with Linux and Windows, the windows install can run the windows virus etc. I don't know about dual booting as I don't dual boot.

[firenice03]

Welcome!!!


The short answers... I think most would agree...


1) Linux Lite will work the same.. and somewhat snappier on more a system with more ram.. Using LL on all these systems may lessen your administration (though install Linux is pretty simple). I use LL on several and have tried Mint but came back to LL..


2) I'm using on 2 systems 1 with 1gb and another with 8gb.. On lesser I think it helps (I'll let others chime in on the technical aspects)


3) Chromebook you may have to confirm but I think there a few small hoops to jump through to install... But LL would be fine on 16gb I would keep it to the basics.. You home directory wouldn't have much room so I would keep to the cloud (whether it be dropbox or google or  ?)


4) Screensaver could most likely be added but as these are laptops of sorts me personally I favor hibernation for battery savings or a screen timeout or a sleep of sorts should also suffice


5) For the most part... and this will be a debate.. Linux won't suffer from Windows virus (unless virus is designed to) some say no need to have AV software... Others say otherwise.. Clamshell seems to popular by most on LL.. You can search the forums and see how its set up/used and favored along with may other topics. (Search from the main forum page  for clamshell or antivirus)


Don't forget the help manual as your setting up your machines... https://www.linuxliteos.com/manual/

[JanetBiggar]

Hello,
I am very new to Linux, just started using Linux Lite 3.4, Mint 17.1 (xfce) and Cinnamon 18.2 in the last month.  I introduced myself in the Mint forum, but realize this is a separate forum so here goes:

I am a retired veterinarian in Canada spending part of the year in South Africa where my husband and I do volunteer work with disadvantaged male youth between 14-22.  I erase and reformat older donated laptops to bring with us to place with deserving youth to assist them with their studies.  I also hold study groups with the youth after school as well as help one-on-one with primarily math and science. 
Until I investigated Linux I was loading Windows XP on the computers and battling at times to find the correct drivers!  I am loving the "works out of the box" feature to Linux.

I have tried various searches for the following questions I have, but did not find posts with the same questions (answered) - perhaps I am not searching correctly thus please excuse me.  Feel free to give me tips on searches:
NOTE: The majority of the computers I get fall into two categories: ones with RAM of 512mb to 0.99 GB OR 2 GB RAM (Perhaps most of you would say these are all in the same category!).
1) So far I have deduced that Linux Lite would be best on the lesser computers (under 1 GB) and on the 2GB RAM computers I felt Linux Mint xfce 17.1 was best.  Does this make sense..?  or should I be using Lite on all of them...
2) Should I be enabling zRAM on some or all of these?
3) One of the donated computers is an HP Chromebook (RAM 2GB but HD only 16 GB) - which version would be best for it?
4) I did see from other posts that there is no screen saver on Linux Lite 3.4 (haven't checked yet to see if the other two versions have screensavers).  Should I not do something so as to protect the screens, if so what?  I didn't really understand the "light locker"...
5) Lastly, the youth periodically may be inserting USB sticks to copy material to then have printed.  What can I do to avoid virus transfer as I have already had youth have issues on a couple of computers running XP?

Would I be best to simply post my questions elsewhere (e.g.software?)?