I have been working my way through the above modules. Which I might say has been very helpful so far.

There is a couple points of interest I thought, that I might mention here, if I may.

1. Linux is Not Windows
2. Snaps on Ubuntu

1. I came across the last item in the list of modules and links, "Linux is Not Windows"

good read, and takes away any pre concieved ideas, or thoughts one might of had about the Linux. It clearly tells you what it is not and what it could be.

Really good stuff, and my thoughts for that topic, I think should be the very first thing one reads before they do anything else before or after an install. I would have loved this to be the first module I read from that link, not the last.

As a new user , it just gives you a background into what you are about to embark on, so rather be at the end of these modules, it needs to be in the beginning, as that is where my ideas of what I think need to be set aside. And look at it from a different perspective. Instead of thinking, this should be just like Windows, remembering newbies do not know any thing, and it would clearly and concisely put them in the picture.
Just a thought!

2. Snaps on Ubuntu
Now any newbie who sees Snaps on Ubuntu as a head line, is not thinking Linux, but rather the mind goes straight to snap on tools lol.
So one quickly grabs the article and starts reading, and see' that it is a bit like a snap on tool.
My question is though, when reading the article, and how that the snap command and the snap file installation process packages, are a little more user friendly, but come at a cost of larger files taking up larger chunks of hard drive space, less support for older machines. It also appears to not have the same theme through out, and it is not always official.

From what I have read and one of the reasons I moved to Linux Lite, was to have continuity, ease (once you get the hang of it) of use, clarity, and official cohesion through out the releases. Better use of hardware and processes.

The question begs to be asked then! Why would one want to go down the Snaps road?

I do understand that it is a choice, if you like it, try it, if not then don't, but are the creators of Linux Lite looking at it in the future?

H

Linux Lite 5.0 installed the other week, and I see Snap is part of the setup now, guess I answered my own question Huh!

Today i got my hands on an ASUS X540L for a couple of minutes and i booted from live USB to Linux Lite 5.0 RC1 using UEFI. Wi-Fi and brightness control worked fine and everything else seemed to do so. I couldn't use it very much to see the performance and to give full feedback,i only got a hardware report but nonetheless i decided to share it.

Hi all.
My LL 4.8 still works perfect, and I'm very pleased with same.
However, I wonder if someone can assist with following: I recently installed Spotify from Lite Software. After logged in to Spotify, a window popped up and requested password for the Standard Keyring? I have not seen this before, and my question is if I should use my login password or leave it blank?
Thanks for all feedback.

Thank you..This is my first try at using LL using a Usb.It wasn't successful.
The Linux lite 2.0-32bit disc image file is in the download file also the universal usb installer 1.9.9.0.
In the removable disk(D) I get sandisk secure access
                                            sandisk secure access settings
                                            sandisk  secure access vault.
I don't get the  setup selections page.
What did I miss out.
Please help me.
By the way Iam 73 years old.
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Hello,

I have recently istalled Linux Lite on an old Acer Travelmate and it works really nicely.

I am now trying to connect webcam (Creative Live! Cam) via USB but neither Camorama nor Guvcview can detect any cameras.

Here is the outcome of 'lsusb'
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 041e:4045 Creative Technology, Ltd Live! Cam Voice
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 041e:4048 Creative Technology, Ltd
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 041e:404b Creative Technology, Ltd
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c03d Logitech, Inc. M-BT96a Pilot Optical Mouse
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

thanks to anyone could help me!
kindest regards from Marco.

Greetings Folks,

I am just going through the lessons  for beginners from a link I got here.
It is run by Gurru99, and this guy explains things really nicely and clearly for absolute new biginners trying to learn and understand some of the basics.

I completed several modules from him. The One last night though, did throw me into a spin. It was using teh Virtual Terminal. the Ctrl Alt F1 command brought up the terminal and instead of seeing the tty1 and login details all I got was a blinking cursor.

No matter what I keyed nothing worked, and so not realising that all I had to do was ctrl alt F7 to come back to this terminal, I ctrl alt del and rebooted and of course lost a couple of hours of note taking that I was doing as I was going through Gurru99's lessons.

I now know that I should have just gone to the F7 workspace, and all would be fine.

However, I do have a question if I may?

The crtl alt F2-7 works a treat, however F1 just gives me the blinking cursor. Gurru99 does not mention it any where, and I can not seem to find any info on this.

So my question to you experienced folk is, is the blinking cursor on the termianl F1 meant to be a like that in this Distibution of Lite, or is there something a miss?

I do understand I can just use F2-6 but it just bothers me that if something should be working, then why is it not?

For others who might read this and are new to Linux, and moved from the Windows, might I say that the lessons from Gurru99 are clear, concise and very helpfull, and you can find them here
https://www.guru99.com/unix-linux-tutorial.html

Love this install of Linux Lite 4.8 and am really enjoying the learning curve. When I teach folk, I always say that there is no such thing as a stupid question, just a stupid mistake because you did not ask the question in the first place, lol.

I feel the same applies here, and thank the responders.

Appreciate any pointers on the question, and thanks in anticipation.
regards
H

HI,
I just downloaded Linux Lite 5.0 RC1 over 4.8. Everything runs fine, except when I went to set up my wireless network printer, I get "there was an error during the CUPS operation server error internal error". When I go to add a printer, it sees my printer in the network section, I choose it, but at the end it says that error. At the first try, it said it would set the firewall for me for it to work, but I wonder if it did. Help. What should I do? In past, I've had no problem setting up my printer. 

new to LL.

Hello people,

My father bought a Lenovo IdeaPad L340-15API few months ago and i installed Linux Lite 4.8 BIOS. At some point he wanted to use the HDMI output (which i did not try after installation) and he couldn't. He asked me to switch to Windows 10 because he needed the HDMI port for his work. Unable to find a solution i decided to try version 5.0 with UEFI hopping it would fix the HDMI issue. Although i got an error during installation(pic), it worked. The HDMI was working perfectly out of the box. The only problem that persists on this laptop is the Wi-Fi. On every installation i need to patch an older kernel for it to work. I don't know if this has anything to do with UEFI or anything else, i just hope it gets fixed on the future. I will stick to Windows 10(on this laptop only, all other computers run Linux Lite 4.8) for now until version 5.0 is released as stable.

Thanks to the whole linux community for helping with the Wi-Fi issues and thanks to the Linux Lite developers for fixing alot alot of issues on every update!

Linux Lite 5.0 RC1

I tried the following command and the updates moved from 14 to 37 but not moving forward from there on.

"sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*"

=========== Log ===========

Ign:1 cdrom://Linux Lite 5.0 - Release amd64 dists/ InRelease
Ign:2 cdrom://Linux 20.04 - Release amd64 dists/ InRelease
Err:3 cdrom://Linux Lite 5.0 - Release amd64 dists/ Release
  Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
Err:4 cdrom://Linux 20.04 - Release amd64 dists/ Release
  Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease [265 kB]
Get:6 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu focal InRelease [12.1 kB]
Get:7 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu focal/partner amd64 Packages [1,596 B]
Get:8 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu focal/partner i386 Packages [1,620 B]
Get:9 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu focal/partner Translation-en [804 B]
Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease [89.2 kB]
Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease [101 kB]
Get:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease [97.0 kB]
Get:13 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main i386 Packages [718 kB]
Get:14 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages [970 kB]
Get:15 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main Translation-en [506 kB]
Get:16 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/restricted amd64 Packages [22.0 kB]
Get:17 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/restricted i386 Packages [8,112 B]
Get:18 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/restricted Translation-en [6,212 B]
Get:19 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe i386 Packages [4,642 kB]
Get:20 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages [8,628 kB]
Get:21 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe Translation-en [5,124 kB]
Get:22 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/main amd64 Packages [25.9 kB]
Get:23 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/main i386 Packages [12.7 kB]
Get:24 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/main Translation-en [11.2 kB]
Get:25 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/restricted amd64 Packages [2,948 B]
Get:26 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/restricted Translation-en [936 B]
Get:27 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/universe i386 Packages [3,112 B]
Get:28 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/universe amd64 Packages [3,576 B]
Get:29 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/universe Translation-en [3,328 B]
Get:30 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main i386 Packages [13.4 kB]
Get:31 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages [31.7 kB]
Get:32 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main Translation-en [13.7 kB]
Get:33 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/restricted amd64 Packages [2,948 B]
Get:34 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/restricted Translation-en [936 B]
Get:35 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe amd64 Packages [12.3 kB]
Get:36 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe i386 Packages [10.5 kB]
Get:37 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe Translation-en [5,676 B]
Reading package lists...
E: The repository 'cdrom://Linux Lite 5.0 - Release amd64 dists/ Release' does not have a Release file.
E: The repository 'cdrom://Linux 20.04 - Release amd64 dists/ Release' does not have a Release file.