I recently committed to make myself an ultra portable "computer" - so I installed LL 4.8 onto this USB thumb drive.
I choose to encrypt the whole drive when running the installer, and I also disabled the internal drive on the laptop (ensure that the boot loader got to the thumb drive).

And that worked just nice. LL works and I can do everything I would do on any computers.

However, there is one problem - The performance. I was fully  aware that this may becoming an issue, so I was expecting some performance drop compared to a HDD.
But - the performance hit running on this USB device was much greater than I had anticipated, e.g. I need to wait about 2-3 minutes for the computer to turn off. And about ever single task seems bounded with a delay time for several seconds.

Therefore i ask if there is configurations I can change to make LL run "faster" when installed on a USB thumb drive ?

I've been a Linux user since 2007.  First with Ubuntu and for the last 3+ years Linux Mint.  This week I was gifted 2 old desktop systems. One started out as a WinXP box and it was beyond rescue. Max'd out at 1GB memory, 160GB HD and an intermittent fault somewhere. 

The second was a Win7 emachine. AMD64 dual core, 4GB memory, about 9 usb ports, memory card reader and DVD drive in a nice, compact desktop form.  Linux Mint XFCE was tried and I was getting intermittent video issues.  System would lock up and I'd end up with a screen slewed diagonally.  Install Linux Lite and it is just works.  Great little box for its intended use in the basement workshop.  I upgraded the HD to 1TB to handle my music collection.

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Mike

Hi,
I have quite a few computers I received recently but need to securely wipe the hard drives before installing linux on them.It's been two days trying to download the DBAN ISO and put on USB keys (3 different models).
Etcher and unetbootin say the downloaded (re-downloaded, etc.) ISO is not bootable and another program says nothing when creating the USB key but wont boot either.

All USB keys say that indeed, the computer has No Operating system found when (remove the harddrive to test since otherwise, it boots the old OS).
PS : Computers are not UEFI and are quite "Legacy" since the CPU is not even 64bits (old Core Duo)

Any hints to get DBan working/booting?

Hi, I've just installed Linux Lite on an internal SSD (Swapped out the DVD drive). Win7 is on the original HDD of Compaq Presario CQ57 laptop.

Mouse Acceleration/Sensitivity adjustments in Settings -Mouse/Touchpad have no effect on the either external wireless mouse or the laptop's own touchpad. All other settings ie. Reverse Scroll direction, left handed, right handed etc do work OK and are saved OK and remain on reboot. Accel/Sens changes have absolutely no effect on hardware. The slider settings of both are saved on exit too.

Is there a solution at all ?

Many thanks.

I recently switched to Linux Lite because of Windows 7 expiring. This week after I installed clamav, scans wouldn't work.
First I ran from terminal:
sudo apt-get install clamav clamav-daemon
(clamtk was on the end of that line I copied, but it was said not to work well with Linux Lite)

I had used clamav before on a machine with Ubuntu 12.04, where i'd enter "clamscan -r /" Trying it on this PC, I'd get:
LibClamAV Error: cli_loaddbdir(): No supported database files found in /var/lib/clamav
ERROR: Can't open file or directory
    With 0 files scanned

I uninstalled everything I saw and reinstalled clamav, but not clamav-daemon. Then I ran freshclam manually, ending up with this:
Sat Feb 15 13:18:20 2020 -> daily database available for download (remote version: 25724)
Sat Feb 15 13:18:50 2020 -> ERROR: Download failed (28) Sat Feb 15 13:18:50 2020 -> ERROR:  Message: Timeout was reached
Sat Feb 15 13:18:50 2020 -> ERROR: getcvd: Can't download daily.cvd from https://database.clamav.net/daily.cvd
Sat Feb 15 13:18:50 2020 -> Giving up on https://database.clamav.net...
Sat Feb 15 13:18:50 2020 -> ERROR: Update failed for database: daily
Sat Feb 15 13:18:50 2020 -> WARNING: fc_update_databases: fc_update_database failed: Connection failed (5)
Sat Feb 15 13:18:50 2020 -> ERROR: Database update process failed: Connection failed (5)
Sat Feb 15 13:18:50 2020 -> ERROR: Update failed.
Sat Feb 15 13:18:50 2020 -> --------------------------------------
Sat Feb 15 14:09:08 2020 -> Update process terminated

Please suggest what else I should show in order to get an answer to my problem.

Hi all,

I have a new 4.8 install and probably 2 out of 10 experience with linux distrobutions in general. Everything seems to be working properly but I do have one question. There is a user (maybe a generic root user?) "linuxlite" that is the default when I restart. I can't find reference to it anywhere else (e.g., under users). There is a "root" user and the other one that I created. I'd like to change the default user if possible. Thanks!

Hi Guys,

Having not updated for a while, I find I get the following notification:

============ Log =========== Hit:1 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu
bionic InRelease Hit:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/teejee2008/ppa/ubuntu
bionic InRelease Get:2
http://ppa.launchpad.net/otto-kesselgulasch/gimp/ubuntu bionic InRelease
[15.4 kB] Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:5 http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/linuxliteos.com diamond InRelease
Get:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease
[88.7 kB] Get:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates
InRelease [88.7 kB] Get:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
bionic-backports InRelease [74.6 kB] Reading package lists... E:
Repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/otto-kesselgulasch/gimp/ubuntu
bionic InRelease' changed its 'Label' value from 'gimp' to 'gimp stable'

I tried a few of the Linux Lite Tweaks which looked relevant but no joy.

Thanks, already!

Hi friends, I am a complete noob about Linux and this is the first distribution I use.
I have a problem that I have no clue how to solve. I want to play some Windows games with Wine, but when I install Wine through Lite Software it installs the 3.0 version, but the most recent version of wine is 5.0, and as a result is giving me problems (It doesnt run any of the games I tried).
I'm trying to figure out how to update or install the newest version but can't figure it out.

Hope someone can give me a hand, thanks in advance!

Hello,

I started out with Linux Mint and my screen began shaking.  Someone suggested I use a lighter distro.  So, I uninstalled Mint and tried Puppy.  Couldn't see any videos with their web browser (Pale Moon).  I then installed Linux Lite on USB to try out.  I'm now getting that shaking screen again.  Any ideas?  I'm new to all of this and just want to keep using my machine after Windows 7 support went away - I need step-by-step information/instruction and often don't understand the snippets of information given about Linux problems that seem to be for pros, so step-by-step is best for people like me.  I did not do updates as there's not enough space on the USB, but I have a feeling it's something to do with my NVIDIA graphics.  Thanks & here's my system info:

CPU:      Dual core AMD Athlon II X2 220 (-MCP-)
          arch: K10 rev.3 cache: 1024 KB bmips: 11251
          clock speeds: max: 2800 MHz 1: 1600 MHz 2: 1600 MHz
          CPU Flags: 3dnow 3dnowext 3dnowprefetch abm apic clflush cmov
          cmp_legacy constant_tsc cpuid cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de extapic
          extd_apicid fpu fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibs lahf_lm lbrv lm mca
          mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl npt
          nrip_save nx osvw pae pat pdpe1gb pge pni popcnt pse pse36 rdtscp
          rep_good sep skinit sse sse2 sse4a svm svm_lock syscall tsc vme
          vmmcall wdt
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1016.2GB (0.2% used)
          ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD10EADX size: 1000.2GB temp: 33C
          ID-2: USB /dev/sdc model: USB_Flash_Disk size: 16.0GB temp: 0C
          Optical-1: /dev/sr0 model: ATAPI DVD A  DH16ABSH
          rev: YA12 dev-links: cdrom,cdrw,dvd,dvdrw
          Features: speed: 48x multisession: yes
          audio: yes dvd: yes rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running

Hello. I can`t update my linux lite 4.8 x64.
Error:
Err:13 http://repo.linuxliteos.com/linuxlite diamond/main amd64 Packages                           
  File has unexpected size (15466 != 15699). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: 142.54.171.138 80]
  Hashes of expected file:
  - Filesize:15699 [weak]
  - SHA256:09ff8de7e8c591bb0d23f6323c9331cd5ff9c35ca283ad9714d6aa6e0794c257
  - SHA1:10f93dafc9ce92888a1d6255eb66263ad1d32a6e [weak]
  - MD5Sum:fad26877e615b0f186ae308522f5e995 [weak]
  Release file created at: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 08:09:34 +0000