Hold down Ctrl and Alt keys and press t (Ctrl Alt + t)
copy/paste (or type) in to your terminal -
Enter your password when asked.

Examples









For a quick start to begin with you can use the commands in the above images and just change "bitsnpcs" in command to your nym.

The Ethernet connection in this old pc is killing me to the point I cannot even update the system...

Here's the output of ifconfig:

I attached the system report created with Linux Lite's script.

I had a similar problem in this machine while using Windows XP, I do not remember what I did but it had something to do with changing something like duplex and changing 100MB/s to 10MB/s or something alike.

What can I do to improve the Ethernet connection?

Hello,

I am brand new to linux and have very little knowledge of computers. I'm on an old msi Wind Notebook that was running Windows 7. i apologize if i'm missing a bunch of necessary info outlined in the guide to posting, but it's all i can do to type this at the moment, so please just ask me and i'll tell you whatever else!

I think I posted for help with installing updates the other day, but now I can't find that post (although i can see in in my general pr6file that i do have a post). So to reiterate and to describe some other problems as well, first, I successfully installed linux lite, but when i click on the first recommended step, to install updates, i get an error log (which i copied into the previous post which i now can't find, so i won't paste it here, but i can regenerate if need be. Second, I have to use the function key to type what's inside the brackets [uiojklm;], as well as some capital letters and other punctuation. Can someone please explain how to change that?

I'll leave it there for now--many thanks for considering! I've wanted t6 switch to linux for a long time, but need some major support getting started!

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    – I'm trying to install linuxlite on one partition for web browsing and the second for testing and learning software. This  includes: wine, windows apps and downloaded .deb packages. The second OS boots up, but the first won’t. After using systemback’s boot repair on the first os, it boots up, but not the second OS.  Don't know if anyone else has had this problem, but would appreciate any ideas you have.
I have installed and learned a lot of apps, customized LL, fixed things when they break, plus have done a lot of cut and paste into the terminal, but stuck on this one. 
This is how it’s gone so far:


What hasn’t worked:  
- using gparted to change one of the os’s uuid number & file system label;
- I’ve used systemback boot repair to change the order of the os’s on the grub menu.

Resources: - Question: What symbol in the LL install wizard will install it to the root partition instead of the mbr? The / symbol is what I use on the first and second installs of LL. (question asked about the following forum page)
“When installing other distros after LL, 
direct their grub boot loader installation to their Root partitions 
instead of the drive's MBR.”         
www.linuxliteos.com/forums/suggestions-and-feedback/grub-quirk/msg13969/#msg13969

- www.linuxliteos.com/forums/start-up-and-shutdown/linux-lite-grub-repair-messes-up-entries/
- GRUB 2 bootloader - Full tutorial (https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub-2.html)

Corbin,

Install went fine. Or so I thought. First reboot, no grub. Installed grub from live usb. System booted fine. Installed the apps and Nvidia prop. driver, rebooted, Everything working fine. Shut down system and ran a few errands. Come back, turn the computer on, signed in, no xfce4 panel. No right click. Wallpaper and mouse showing. Can even move the mouse around. But, the desktop is dead. Hard shut down. Load into live usb, Google searched the issue. Find an issue from 2012, tried it, didn't work. Reinstalled and on reboot, I have grub. Desktop loads up after login, desktop is dead. Xfce4 panel is there, but am not able to click anything. Grab my Lite 3.6 flash drive, reinstall and my system is stable again.

Anyway, 3.8 is a bust for me. I'm not looking for help on this, just informing. I'll stick to 3.6 until the next release or until there's a bug fix release.

I was 'road testing" Solus Budgie just to check it out. I wrote it to a DVD using Xfburn. My test computer and main computer would not boot from the DVD so I tried to blank the DVD. Sometimes the Xfburn would not recognize the DVD. Sometimes it would recognize the DVD and said it was a blank DVD. When Xfburn would let me try to blank or format the DVD, it fails and gives this message: "Failure: Asynchronous SCSI error : [3 51 00] Medium error. Erase failure."

The test computer and my main computer both do as described above. My iMac just ejects the DVD. I installed k3b burner on the test computer and it doesn't recognize the DVD either. When one of the Linux computer's file manager (Thunar) recognized it showed it has Solus on it.

Has Solus killed my DVD or is there a fix for it?  :-\

Hello,

here is a function for making random passwords. It works for the session you are in, and will need re-adding in a new session, eg you can close and open terminal and randpw will work but if you reboot you need to re-add the function.

If you copy/paste this (or type it) into your terminal and hit enter.

Every time you need a new random password open your terminal and type


and it will generate one and save you having to type the entire function out again that session.

An example -



Be sure to save any random passwords you use somewhere safe, like the password locker/safe, didn't we used to have one of these in Linux Lite ?

I will post some other ways to do this soon.

Just a thank you.  Upgrade to 3,8 was flawless.

[size=1em]Hello, I'm new to this forum, but have been using linux for about 2 years. The pentium 2.4, 2gb ram computer i was using had a graphics card that wouldn't work with linux. this set me on wondering what linux os could run on this size computer (there seem to be a lot of these around still), and still have long term support, the large deb repository, a full featured desktop like mint and noticeable security (having to get root permission to enter other partitions). Linux lite is the best ubuntu based os so far.
Linux mint was to much of a strain on the cpu and ram, peppermint is the fastest so far (lighter file manage & settings) with lite coming in for a very close second. The settings and desktop in lite seem to be a lot like mint. Xfce is the best middle of the road desktop for me.
I spent the first year learning how to maintain linux and the best packages for the job. The second year was spent learning the installed and available productivity software.

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