I'm trying to change the swappiness on an older computer from 60 to 10 and have always followed the following article section 1.1:https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/3

However, this particular computer I upgraded to LL 3.6 and when I cut and paste the get leafpad line it says it is already updated and hence no file appears into which I can cut and paste the next line in the following step.

Is someone able to give me the steps to reduce swapiness to 10 given that this computer is running LL 3.6?

Thanks in advance.

Hello! I know next to nothing about computers, but am trying to Install Linux Lite on an old msi wind notebook. Below is the error log text. Many thanks f6r any help!

Heya,

I installed Linux Lite on a bunch of PC, except my main gaming rig.
My Windows 7 is giving me headaches with unexplained .5 seconds slowdowns every few seconds so I'm gonna go dual boot Linux Lite on it.
I only had LL in virtual on this one until now but my main concern is that I have a really nice sound card called an Asus Xonar Essence XTS (audiophile card) and I'm not sure if it will work 100%
or have all the the Hi-Fi specs available in Linux. For example, I can change the output from 32 to 250 Ohms depending on my headphones.

Anyone has experience with this card in Linux?

Cheers!

I have finally managed to download Irfan View and moved its files into one folder on my desktop. Now is there any way to get it accepted into My Applications so that it will, for example, show up in the list of applications when I right click on a scanned image?  Please, note that I am very new to all this, just floundering my way through Linux Lite.

First time user of any Linux. Just for fun, I decided to try Linux Lite to see if it could breathe new life into a very old Windows XP Acer Travelmate laptop, rather than bin it.
Originally a Travelmate 242lc, but slightly upgraded with a Pentium4 2.8; 40GB HDD; 1250MB RAM.
Various attempts to install failed. Tried to run Gparted iso. This failed until I tried an old version which worked fine and I deleted all old partitions.
Linux Lite installer then proceeded - but only if I used the inbuilt partition manager to do 'something else' which was make a single large 39GB root partition, followed by 800MB swap.
So, the process is very slow with this processor and drive. Each attempt takes about 3 hours to reach the crash point.
Copying files completes, Configuring System locales crashes at configuring time zone; no bug report appears when crash window is closed (message says it should!)
Time shown in bios boot screen kept reverting to default, so changed CMOS battery as found to be almost flat, but that made no difference to install crash.
Any suggestions?

Hi, all,

I feel fairly confident with Linux now that I can research this problem on my own, but may still need to ask for help.  That said, I do have a work-around.  I post this for now in case anyone else has the same problem.

• Description:  On inserting (mounting) a USB stick, sometimes there appears to be (significantly) less space than ought to be available.  Note:  This is not the usual case of a USB stick having a little less space than advertized.  On deleting existing files, the USB stick does not show any additional space.  Operation so far only tested on Thunar (the file manager); not tested yet using the terminal.  File system is FAT-32.
  
• Hardware (laptop):  Only seems to be happening on one of my two otherwise identical laptops.  Possible hardware fault?
  
• Hardware (USB stick):  Kingston DataTraveller G4 16Gb (rated as Linux-compatible).  FAT-32.
  
• Software (file manager):  Thunar 1.6.11
  
• Linux Kernel:  4.4.0-110-generic (LL 3.6 64bit).
  
• Hypothesis:  Due to an as yet unknown cause, although the files are removed from the list, the space is not being freed up on the USB stick.  As a result, repeated deletion is resulting is ever-decreasing available space for file storage.
  
• Work-around:  Carefully reformat the USB stick using GParted (Menu/System/Partition Drives).  Carefully, because you don't want to format your hard drive or partitions!  Unmounting and re-formatting USB stick (to FAT-32 again) frees up the space.  Again, not tested formatting from terminal.
  

• As reported previously, Linux doesn't appear to like any USB extension cable I have tried (be aware).  Work-around:  Don't use USB extension cables!
  
• When mounting a Kanguru Flashtrust USB3.0 SecureFirmware USB stick (8Gb), USB sticks mounted afterwards report read-only until fresh boot.  (This happens in Thunar; but also the default file manager in Ubuntu/Unity.)  Work-around:  Reboot!
  

Hello to all the Linux Lite community, I am a newbie in Linux, and I decided to install this Linux distribution for reading such good reviews, and the truth is, it's very good !!, I'm ready and excited to learn more about Linux and Linux Lite.

Greetings from Mexico!

Hi

I want to learn more about Linux in general!
I've been (and still Am) a Windows user until I discovered LL which gave a new life to my old laptop some time ago, after I bought a new one with Win10 (8GB RAM, i5core CPU,Nvidia bla bla bla).

My old laptop (the one I'm writing this now) is 11 years now so I have to thank the developers of Linux in general and LL in particular for providing a OS for a machine that otherwise would be useless.

I'm not a computer geek, just a simple user so Linux (terminal/command lines) are very confusing.

With that in mind what free ebooks recommendations would you guys suggest so I can improve my skills with linux.
Download links would be appreciated.

Thank You

An update appeared to be removing VLC.  I reinstalled VLC, but then after reboot, I couldn't get to the login screen.  Using the command line, I went to a systemback restore from a month ago.  I ran updates again, and saved the log.  VLC is being removed.  See the attached log file.

Hey

I just created a Firefox account (I have a Google/Chrome one for my other home laptop ) since I'm using the browser more now mainly at work.
Was wondering if being logged-on with the Sync option on increases browser RAM usage.
I ask this because I only have 2GB of RAM on the laptop I use Firefox.

Thank you