Switched platforms for this task.

Here's my install of the 5 series with a older but most beautiful wallpaper.Host: Dell Inspiron 5558Intel i5-5250U (4) @2.700GHzGPU1: Intel HD Graphics 6000GPU2: Nvidia GeForce 920M

Hiya Folks,
I don't know if any of you folk have used the editor Micro. Tried it today and have say what a nice little editor.
It is downloaded via SNAP.
It has some great features, like ctrl s for save and the old ctrl c and ctrl v works a treat for copy and paste.
And when you make an error, and haven't we all when we accidentally deleted a line in nano and poof gone. In micro
you are able to ctrl z and ctrl y, just love those.
It also allows you to use the mouse proper in the editor.
It has a lovely colour scheme selection as well.
If you have not tried it, give it a go.
I am really liking it at the moment.
regards
H

I don't know why linux Lite is always associated as a beginner's distro. On my workstation I run Solus os on my other workstation Arco linux both rolling releases, one more stable than the other but that's a different discussion.
Since tonight I have installed linux lite on an older dell-inspiron laptop and for me this is a very workable system and indeed if you come across from windows you will feel right at home in it but the advanced user can really appreciate this system. But when are you an advanced user by the way?
The Windows 10 version that was on it had probably received 6 GB updates in recent months and was no longer workable for daily use, despite plugging in an SSD.
With the installation of linux Lite 5, this laptop can again stand its ground.
Nothing but credit to the developer and his team, linux Lite is what Xubuntu should be.

I am a novice user of linux lite currently using 3.6


Please could someone help. I am not sure if someone is accessing my laptop.


Is it possible to tell and know for sure?


I would be grateful for any advice. Thank you for reading.

Hello everyone,

I've recently started using POP OS! on my laptop and liking it so far. I know whenever I install a fresh windows pc I have certain programs I need or atleast want to have on it before I can start using it like I want. Since I'm new to Linux I don't have this knowledge yet on some easy to use or must have things. Everything is appreciated, I like learning new stuff but some things I am looking for:

- printscreen program where I can easily take a SS of a part of the window and edit it. I tried Flameshot but it kinda bugs out on me.

- Music/Video Player with subtitle support.

- Easy file manager, something in the line of windirstat where you can easily see what is hogging all my harddrive space.

-Remote desktop Client, something I can use RDP files with, I use Remmina now, but I would like some other alternatives if there are ones.

-Any Linux exclusive games that look like dwarf fortress

-Anything else you find usefull in your daily use of Linux

I have x32 LL installed, fresh install 3mos ago.I have been losing hard drive space.
I finally found where it went, SYSLOG is 42GB in size.  ./var/log/syslog
This is on a 70gb drive.
How do I delete or clean this?  It will not let me by normal means.
Is it safe to just delete it? HOW? 
Can it be cleaned/recovered?
How can I stop this from happening?
I tried Bleachbit, but I do not see an option for syslog.
Help Please
TIA

hi everybody,
a little problem with the potential to grow. I am away from home for some time and brought my little laptop with lite 5 installed. It is an HP laptop with only a 32gig ssd so I use USBs for storage and work. It was fine until I just came back and get the message;

failed to mount " WORK"
Not authorized to perform operation (polkit authority not available and caller is not uid 0)

when I tried to open the stick.
Today there was an update which needed a reboot and I used Stacer, that`s it. Can somebody please advise?

I added a UPS to my system last week and had been seeing the UPS in my task bar on the right side and when I pulled up power management settings it would show the UPS state.

Since that time I have not added software other than the updates that are pushed and today the UPS has started disappearing from the taskbar.  It is there when I boot into my session, I can see the charge state and then the ICON disappears.

It also disappears from the devices listed in Power Manager.  I checked the USB cable, plugged and re-plugged it and all seems good.

I then put the cable in another USB port, it appeared in the power manager, I was able to view it.  I closed power manager and it disappeared again.

Any suggestions as to how to get it back?

Shamelessly piggy-backing on this topic, I wonder if it's possible to upgrade the kernel to a newer version than the 4.4.0-189-generic "hostnamectl | grep Kernel" returns in terminal for my 32-bit Lite 3.8?