Could the LL ISO be lightened (speedier installation, smaller footprint) by including optional LibreOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird and Gimp, in Lite Software rather than setting them up during installation, or is this a dependency issue for XFCE desktop? Perhaps a Linux "super" Lite version?

TC

I know Linux Lite is probably officially represented on Facebook, which is cool.  Maybe there's a fan page or something too.

But Facebook isn't the only social network, and lots of Linux-friendly folk hang out on Diaspora*, a privacy-respecting, open-source, federated social network.

With your permission, I'd like to create an "unofficial Linux Lite Fan Page" or something on Diaspora if you guys don't mind or if you don't have time to fuss around learning a whole 'nother social network.  You might reach a whole lot of new people there (I even brought one "Diasporian" to Linux Lite just from conversation).

Wha'd'y'think?

Hello,
I am very new to Linux, just started using Linux Lite 3.4, Mint 17.1 (xfce) and Cinnamon 18.2 in the last month.  I introduced myself in the Mint forum, but realize this is a separate forum so here goes:

I am a retired veterinarian in Canada spending part of the year in South Africa where my husband and I do volunteer work with disadvantaged male youth between 14-22.  I erase and reformat older donated laptops to bring with us to place with deserving youth to assist them with their studies.  I also hold study groups with the youth after school as well as help one-on-one with primarily math and science. 
Until I investigated Linux I was loading Windows XP on the computers and battling at times to find the correct drivers!  I am loving the "works out of the box" feature to Linux.

I have tried various searches for the following questions I have, but did not find posts with the same questions (answered) - perhaps I am not searching correctly thus please excuse me.  Feel free to give me tips on searches:
NOTE: The majority of the computers I get fall into two categories: ones with RAM of 512mb to 0.99 GB OR 2 GB RAM (Perhaps most of you would say these are all in the same category!).
1) So far I have deduced that Linux Lite would be best on the lesser computers (under 1 GB) and on the 2GB RAM computers I felt Linux Mint xfce 17.1 was best.  Does this make sense..?  or should I be using Lite on all of them...
2) Should I be enabling zRAM on some or all of these?
3) One of the donated computers is an HP Chromebook (RAM 2GB but HD only 16 GB) - which version would be best for it?
4) I did see from other posts that there is no screen saver on Linux Lite 3.4 (haven't checked yet to see if the other two versions have screensavers).  Should I not do something so as to protect the screens, if so what?  I didn't really understand the "light locker"...
5) Lastly, the youth periodically may be inserting USB sticks to copy material to then have printed.  What can I do to avoid virus transfer as I have already had youth have issues on a couple of computers running XP?

Would I be best to simply post my questions elsewhere (e.g.software?)?

Hello,

Alt and F Key combo's from Desktop -

1/ another way to take a screenshot without using a mouse -

Hold down Alt press F1
Press upwards arrow x7 times
Press enter
Use up/down arrows to select type of screenshot
Press enter
Press up/down arrows to select action (save)
Press enter
Type your screenshot name
Press enter

1b/ If you already have used screenshot previously and have it set to save the screen area you want in its default, and dont mind the default screenshot name you can do -

Hold Alt Press F1
up arrow x7 taps
enter, enter, enter, enter

Practice your key stroke times, do it ...blindfolded, show your friends.

2/ Another way to use your menu -

Hold down Alt and press F2
Type in program name OR press down arrow to see your menu
Navigate up down right pane using up/down arrows
Navigate the programs in that category using right arrow, then up/down arrows.
To change to a different category press left arrow, then up down/arrows.
Press enter to select a program to open.

2b/ Save your fingers - Hold down Alt and press F3 to see your menu straight away.

3/ Hold down Alt and press F4 to open the Log Out screen
Use arrow keys to choose your option.
Press enter.

After log in my desktop shows an unmounted floppy disk icon. I do not have a floppy disk on my computer. I have not found a way to delete or remove it. I have checked computer set up settings and cannot find a floppy disk setting or boot setting to floppy anywhere. I would like to get this removed from the computer. Please help!

When I installed Lite on my two laptops I was for some reason unable to connect to my wireless HP 4510 series printer. Rather than fight with it I connected the printer to the desktop PC in that room and shared the printer. Problem solved. Both laptops were setup to connect to the shared printer on the desktop PC. Just now I started to print a document from my laptop and there was no printer listed! I popped "Printers" open and nothing was there so went ahead with the "Add Printer" routine. A soon as I clicked on the "Network Printer" drop down the HP 4510 was listed! I've done nothing to either laptop, but all of a sudden the network printer just showed up.

Not that it's a bad thing, but any ideas why this would just suddenly work that way it should?

When attempting to install wine, this is the prompt I received:

Some of the packages could not be retrieved from the server(s).
Do you want to continue, ignoring these packages?

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool...1_i386.deb
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.23 80]

Can you please update the repositories?
And also, when can the wine version be updated? Wine is over 2.0 now!

What does the community think about Googles material design approach. Do flat icon themes look good on Linux Lite?

Example: https://github.com/daniruiz/Flat-Remix/

Hi, greetings from Sweden

Installed Linux Lite 3.4 last night without any problems. Added KXStudio repo to it - no problem. Everything is running smooth on my "old" HP Elitebook 850p with 8GB RAM and a external Berhinger UMC22 usb soundcard. Can't be happier. This weekend I'm gonna install Harrison Mixbus and test some recording with a bunch of plugins.

I always split my hd into 4 partitions +swap, like this:
Boot 2GB
swap 8GB
/ root 100GB
/home 50% of free space (~100GB)
/audio 50% of free space (~100GB)

In my case I have a 320GB SATA HD. Don't know if I need swap when I have 8GB RAM but I have it just in case.

It's a great distro and I give 10 out 10 so far yay!

//Tobbe

Hey people of the intertubes!


Search these forums with the magical search field at the top right for this and did not find a hit but... I wuz just wondering if the Calamares Installer had been suggested before has an installer for Linux Lite?

I've been using Windoze for the last 25 years and in the last year or so I tried at least 84.2 distros (some didn't boot ) . The best one for me is of course Linux Lite 8) but had different troubles installing it since 2.2 (and other distros using the same installer sometimes) . I did some research and looks like Calamares is a "Universal" installer. Has it been tried (or implemented before) in Linux Lite?

Cheers to all, but mainly to Jerry since he's a Magical Being that creates miniature rainbows behind him when he walks.

TheDead
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