To my amazement I have discovered that my Dell Inspiron desktop was designed NOT to be bootable UEFI.
(It is five years old and just sat for half that time, so has plenty of life left in it.)


I found this while trying over and over to migrate from Legacy to UEFI, so ended up at the Dell site, to
see an engineer had stated that the boot could not be changed as it was built to be that way.


(Well it explored a lot that this old man could not easily follow, and it does explain many misadventures I
have had trying other distros that would install but not reboot. (BEFORE Linux Lite!)



  Will Linux Lite stay Legacy boot?  Is there any other distro left that will, and maybe not ubuntu-based?


  Thanks for any suggestions.








 

Currently have LL installed on a dual boot drive beside Windows 7.  After looking at the Libre Office Apps they seem to be compatible with MS Office.  So I'm curious of how many have completely eliminated their Windows partition and only use LL.  In my case I have other Windows machines if I am forced or need it for an unsupported application.  Happy to hear your thoughts.

No need to install spotify if you only use the free service with no need for off-line listening.
It works in the UK, but does it work worldwide?

https://open.spotify.com

I've been quite happy with the onboard Archive Manager, but I started looking for one that has the option of a single-click interface, to save my wrists a little work.


I didn't find one (suggestions are welcome), but in the search I did come across PeaZip, which has a nicer interface and a lot more options than the default AM.


The only thing lacking, from my perspective, beside single-click action, is shell integration. Some ways to do this are given - copying a desktop shortcut to the sbin folder, or copying scripts to the usr/local/share folder, but these have not worked for me. The prog is portable, yet it uses a .deb installer package, which I don't understand.


Here's an excerpt from its FreeDesktop folder:

Quote:With following instructions you can easily integrate PeaZip with Gnome and KDE:


1) Install a PeaZip installable package (DEB, RPM, TGZ), or extract PeaZip portable to the desired path and link peazip binary in one of the system's binary folder i.e. /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, or /usr/local/bin (recommended)


2a) Gnome
- Nautilus scripts
Manually copy 'Archiving' folder, which is contained in 'nautilus-scripts', to your user's profile '.gnome2/nautilus-scripts' folder; that folder is hidden, so you can either find it flagging 'View>Show hidden files' in Nautilus, or clicking on 'Scripts>Open scripts folder' in Gnome's context menu.
This integration is NOT automatically performed by PeaZip installer, because nautilus-scripts path location is currently not widely standardized.
- .desktop files
Copy peazip.desktop files in /usr/share/applications
NOTE Gnome is often configured to use /usr/share/application and /usr/share/icons paths (i.e. on Ubuntu), but the paths may be different on some distribution or in some specific installations.
This integration is automatically performed by the installer.

Does anyone know a way to do this? Thanks.

WOHO great news looks llike samsung have got something cool to offer

https://liliputing.com/2017/11/samsungs-...splay.html

Hi - A very newbie to Linux and LL.

I am booting LL from USB.  The Clock time in the tray is showing 6 hours ahead.  Obviously due to a time zone setting.  Is there a graphical way to change this in settings?  I don't see any indication of this and I am not a programmer and would refer not to write code.  TIA

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Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/otto-kesselgulasch/gimp/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
flAbsPath on /var/lib/dpkg/status failed - realpath (2: No such file or directory)
Could not open file  - open (2: No such file or directory)
Problem opening
The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
Can't call method "policy" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/apt-show-versions line 56.
Reading package lists...
E: Problem executing scripts APT::Update:ost-Invoke-Success 'test -x /usr/bin/apt-show-versions || exit 0 ; apt-show-versions -i'
E: Sub-process returned an error code
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E: Problem opening
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

hi guys, my chrome installed on 32bit windows 7 stopped working, so I had to use Linux only for browsing as that I have 64bit Linux, but it appears that after searching that chrome stopped 32bit support, had to go to my B solution Opera Browser.

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