I have been a user of Linux for years, love the ease of using, updating and in general, the feel of the majority of Distro's. Ubuntu, Mint and several others but my favorite was PCLinuxOS until they dropped the 32 byte version. My hobby is to try and resurrect old computers, then I give them away, so a Linux distro is perfect because of the minimum hardware requirements they need to operate. (My Wife says that I repair them until they are broken beyond repair)
This laptop for example is a old Toshiba NB200 which was taking the best part of 20 minutes to fully load Win XP Home and get online. Now with LinuxLite I timed it today at just over 85 seconds, that is of course without any bloatware or other crap on board.
Toshiba NB200 32bit
Intel® Atom™ CPU N280 @ 1.66GHz
Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME
RAM 1 G.
So you can see that this notebook is nothing to rave about, but with LinuxLite on board it is operating just as well if not better that most Windows PC's.
Glad to be a member of this forum and definitely very happy to have come across Linux Lite.
:'( I have tried to install Linux Lite from USB drive to Dell Inspiron 14-3542 (model number may be off) and it fails to restart /boot from the hard disk: 1) storage is eMMC ard; 2) boot is interuppted by this Dell SupportAssist message: It appears that there is difficulty in starting your system. Testing eMMC drive --[hangs]. I had previouslydisabled Windows Boot Manager in the bios. Install seemed to complete without problem. Now running from the Live version on the USB drive. Any and all help will be appreciated -- Win 10 has augered in and no help from MS. Want to try Linux on this cheap laptop.
Well with LL, that is 
Registered 26/03/2014
i am back resovling issues my wifi printers say the online at machine but pc says not online.
Linux noob, MS power user for 20+ years, LL for life at this point (3 months now). Have reinstalled LL 3 times now for various reasons (moving to different partitions mainly, and preserving my win vista partition until I back up almost 10 years of documents/misc on it). Has worked amazingly well each time, but I am a tinkerer, so I have added unsupported repositories, finally found synaptic (it's kinda hidden, why?), edited config files, and ran unknown cli commands cut and pasted from the internet. Here is my current problem:
Latest install (3.6 upgraded to 3.8), everything was running as normal. I mess around with a lot of stuff (I run pi-hole, for example), and I may have "released" my DHCP lease in my router settings (I'm not 100% clear on what that means, I was probably trying to fix something else, following an online "recipe"). Now, in LL, it connects to the network, but no browser will load, AND apt-get update will not connect either - connected with no connectivity. Of course windows and other distros all have normal connectivity.
Questions: Is there a way to completely reset my internet settings? I'm not opposed to reinstalling the OS, but... can I reinstall in the same partition, or will it just leave whatever corrupted config files are there? (I do have "spare" partitions I can use... see ya Ubuntu, ha ha told you...)
Obviously (in retrospect) the DNS settings in /etc/resolv.conf were incorrect, the system was looking to 127.0.0.1 (home) for DNS lookups for some reason. I was not able to install nscd... until I fixed this. Did not work the first time ... not used to, and don't like non-GUI editors, they have nothing to offer me. Yet. Thanks!!
Hello,
I am looking for suggestions for an offline garden planning software for LL, that can save as a jpg or png ?
I wanted one that can allow -
- adding of shapes (squares and rectangles)
- has plant add feature, has custom plant add feature (for any missing in software)
- add features for, paths, gravel, pond, rocks, garden furniture.
- has a mode for planning greenhouse and internal features.
I'm having a heck of time trying to write a file from Linux to Windows 10.
I've installed Samba on Linux Lite and I've got it up and running to the point where I can see the Linux computer from the Windows 10 computers. I actually have 3 Windows 10 computers and I can see the shared files and folders on the Linux machine from Windows 10 with no problem. I can also read and write files to the Linux machine from the Windows machines.
What I can't do is see the Windows machines or shared folders on the Linux machine. In short, I can't read or write a file to a Windows machine from the Linux machine. I've been trying for over a week now with no progress. I'm even writing a program in Python to write files to the Windows machines, but even that won't work. I don't even get an error. It just acts like it wrote the file but the file never shows up at the destination path.
In fact, this is what I really need to do. I need to have Python write files to the Windows computers. But as things are I can't do anything from Linux. The only way to get a file over to Windows is to go to a Windows machines and read it from there. That works, but that's no good.
Here's a copy of my smb.conf file:
#
#======================= Global Settings ====================================
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
name resolve order = bcast host
server string = Linux Lite Shares
netbios name = Presario-CQ57
security = user
encrypt passwords = true
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
map to guest = bad user
guest account = nobody
dns proxy = no
#======================= Share Definitions ===================================
[liteshare]
comment=Linux CQ-57 Share
path = /home/%U/share
browsable = yes
writable = yes
only guest=no
create mask=0777
directory mask=0777
public = yes
[100_Robo_Pas]
comment=Linux CQ-57 Share
path = /home/%U/100_Robo_Pass
browsable = yes
writable = yes
only guest=no
create mask=0777
directory mask=0777
public = yesI've been trying all manner of things from videos I've watched and websites I've searched. But nothing works.
I even installed winbind as someone suggested this would solve the problem but no luck with that either.
apt-get install winbindI don't know what winbind does but it installed and I rebooted and still nothing.
I had changed one of the lines above to:
name resolve order = wins bcast host # (adding the wins)Again someone told me to do that. But that didn't help either.
I even tried adding the line:
winbind enum groups = yesI'm just at a loss here. I've spent a week working on this with no progress at all. I'm getting depressed here.
Almost everything I find on the Internet is with people not being able to see the Linux shares from Windows. I have no problem with that. That part is working for me just fine. So the Linux machine is on the network and sharing files. It just can't see the Windows machines. I've even tried dropping the firewall on the Windows machines but that didn't work either. I also wouldn't want to have to leave the firewall down anyway. But that doesn't help so it's unlikely that's the problem.
Also as a final note, I don't think it has anything to do with permissions. I have all my Windows set up with shared folders that do not require passwords. So I'm not even using passwords anyway.
I'm not a great gamer (Supertuxkart is about as far as I go), but my 13-year-old son is. He's a great fan of Steam, though uses the Steam app from the Ubuntu repository on LL3.8.
However, a while ago, I came accross a distro called Steam OS on the Distrowatch website. It made me wonder whether Steam OS gives any advantages over the Steam app, for those besotted with gaming :o
Would it be worth dual-booting Steam OS with LL?
As ever, I'm Interested to hear your opinions and experiences ...
I've noticed I have a lot of hidden folders with the recycle symbol on them.
They are duplicates of my regular folders.
I can't open them.
When I try, the "Open with..." comes up, with this statement... Open filename.htm~ and other files of type "backup file" with:
I'm not familiar with this file and wonder if there is any cause to fret and worry.
Thx
Amigo
hi,
after installing steam using the default installer,when i open it, it does nothing.
im new to linux os and still learning in some other way,i stepped away of windows os'es due to privacy and compatibilty
i have an old desktop that suits for linux lite,i have some games bought in steam that i want to restore in this os,but im struggling so much to slove this problem and cant find any solutions for now and the only way i can assure for help is this team
more power guys
hope i can get replies and solutions in here since i started to like this os for now :-*