Hello!


I don't frequent the LL forums much anymore. Life's happened and all that. That's just how it is...
Anyways, A few days ago, I helped my grandparents setup their new cable Internet and a "new" computer. I say "new" because it really was just an unused desktop with not much use since new in 2010. The machine is an eMachines EL-1600 desktop with an Intel Atom 1.6, weak Intel Graphics, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD. Average basic sub-$400 USD computer from 2010. It came with Windows XP on it, and as you all know by now, it's been out of support for a while now. Up until a few days ago, they were using an even older HP Desktop from 2006 also running XP to get on the internet. Terribly insecure by now, for sure.


Now here's where the fun started with the "new" computer. It had really no data on it because it was unused for the better part of the decade so I didn't care about losing anything.


So first, I tried to install Windows 10 Home on it. HA! HA!. Really bad idea. So yes, it ran and booted, but barely. The 1GB of RAM was really the limiting factor here. From a cold boot, it was idling at about 750MB from a cold boot. Granted, some of the blame was my fault because the Windows 10 was 64-Bit, which I didn't know until after it installed. I booted and installed Windows 10 from a flash drive I made years back. That didn't stay on for long to say the least, running and gobbling up resources like that. So, something light, but something relatively easy to use OS was in need of calling here. I tried Linux Mint for the hell of it with the Cinnamon desktop, knowing that was somewhat Windows-like. It ran poorly on the little eMachines as well and consumed too much RAM to do too little much else on. So I had to pull out my beast of a laptop (ASUS ROG G752VT gaming laptop, a far cry from the little eMachines) to create a new USB bootable stick of Linux Lite 3.4 32-Bit, which luckily I had a copy of. Took 3 minutes to do that via DD in my laptop using Manjaro KDE (the only distro that works really well on this ROG). Took 15 minutes to get the OS on to the little eMachines. Idling from a cold boot with LL 32-Bit, RAM was about 350MB, which is a far cry from Windows. My grandparents like it better than Windows XP. Looks more modern to them. The floppy disk drive also did not work in Windows 10, since MS removed support for that, but works in Linux. I got their HP printer setup, their cable internet via Ethernet, their email on Thunderbird and a couple other little things. They are now secure and good to go. Never have to worry about viruses ever again. I did tell them this though: "Turn on the computer once a week to run the updates and input in the password I gave you. You can go for 2 weeks without turning it on, but there will be some data to download when that amount of time passes between updates, so I'd say once a week."


So story time is over!
Thanks for reading,
Theo.

How to change the color of these?

When I try to change my sources to the best/ fastest server in UK, it returns the fastest server as being mirrors.nl.eu.org. Please see this link https://justpaste.it/18d7z for the errors I receive. It would also seem that the extras repository is causing an issue as I have had to remove that from my sources.list file.
Many thanks

I just finished doing some searching for discussions about web browsers in Lite. I found a few, but none were exactly what I was looking for, and several of them were pretty dated. I hope this is the correct place to post this. If not, somebody tell me and I'll try and do better.

I have seen more than one comment on the forum about problems with Firefox and a few of you have expressed discontent with how big and bloated Firefox has become. I hold that thought myself. I went through it with Netscape, Firefox, and several Linux distros. Each of them became bigger and more bloated with every update.

So what I'd like to see is which browsers some of you are using and why you chose that specific browser over others. I know that what I'd really like to find is a browser that is lightweight, is fast, offers Flash and Java, and also a few extensions like an ad blocker and a really good download manager. Right now I have Adblock Plus, DownThemAll, and Password Exporter extensions on Firefox.

So, what's your favorite, and why?

I'm trying to set my HP printer to print in black ink (i.e. grayscale using black ink only) by default. This should be possible because before using Linux Lite, this same printer and same desktop PC could be set on Windows 7 to default to this setting. Then if I had a color document to print, I would change it to print in color for my document and afterward I would change it back to black ink only ready for next time. 

I can't figure out how to set it to default to black ink only in LinuxLite. Any suggestions please? Is there a setting I have somehow missed?

I've already set the following setting under Menu -> All -> Printers:

Screenshot A:


The problem is that despite this setting shown above, when I go to print, it still defaults to color (this happens whether printing via LibreOffice or via Chrome - those are the main things I print with). Sure, I can get it to print in black ink for the document or website at hand for the individual document being printed, but not as a default setting.

As an example, see below the example of how I have to do it with each document in Chrome:

Screenshot B:


If I hit the "Print" button at top, then it will print in color. If instead I go via "Print using system dialog" seen at bottom, I then get taken to the following dialog:

Screenshot C:


And here I can select black ink instead of color, but it only seems to work for that document only. If I want to print again in black ink, I have to go through "Print using system dialog" and change it to black ink again.

So this is clunky, having to go through this every time I want to print in black ink.  I want it to DEFAULT to black ink (and change/override that setting on the rare occasions I want to print in color), instead of the other way around which is what I have now. Any guidance would be appreciated.

Other info:
Linux Lite recognized my printer right away, I didn't have to install anything myself or do anything via command line. This is all out-of-the-box. I'm not sure if that info was relevant, but wanted to mention in case.

Good day,
Initially I attempted install from the live version of the usb boot drive. The install program ended up quitting and showing a fuzzy screen. I then attempted install from linux lite safe mode. This worked fine. Except now I am trying to install updates and the computer freezes with the same fuzzy screen every time I update.

Hey everyone! 

We all love Linux lite, and we know how awesome the os is. Linux lite is constantly improving in features and accessibility, and getting better and better.

So, as the community we might as well play our part, and help LL get widely known.

What we can do :
1. Review LL on various websites. Eg. Distrowatch, Slant and your favorite.

2. Write about LL on your blog and write review of LL in blog. Commenting on a blog post to let the blogger know about LL.

In case you think more points shall be added here, let me know.

Please consider following :
1. Use sensible language while writing review or comments about LL.

In case you think more points shall be added here, let me know.

Also, don't forget to write here about your contribution on making LL reach to more of them.

Cheers.

Namaskar, 

I was wandering around the web with keyword Linux Lite. I found some useful information which may be used by community and LL team to enhance user experience and to enhance reach.


1. I found some links which have thoughts of users about LL. I am sharing them here.

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=225069

The main problem people think, seems to be incompatibility with UEFI. Actually, people are real angry for that.

https://freedompenguin.com/articles/opin...inux-lite/

It's a one year old review, may be useful.

http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/2016/09...linux.html


2. When I was searching for an appropriate OS for my PC, I had crawled many comparing sites and many forums to come to a decision, which was Linux Mint XFCE(I'll be honest here). But, only some time after my decision and some time before I had installed OS, I came to know about Linux Lite. And, the result is LL.

May we be lacking in marketing and in taking the word out?

I hope Linux Lite makes top in near future. 

Thanks,
Sanmay

After loading of Linux boot and login is fine. None of the above work to shutdown the system. If I press and hold the power button the system will power off..... BUT..... as the power button is released the system boots back up.

Any ideas.... I have followed most suggestions and not found a fix. I do not believe it is an OS problem... seems to me a BIOS problem. There seems to be no setting in the BIOS that will prevent the reboot.

Version
Kernel Linux 4.4.0-70-generic (x86_64)
Compiled #91-Ubuntu SMP Wed Mar 22 12:47:43 UTC 2017
C Library Unknown
Default C Compiler GNU C Compiler version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4)
Distribution Linux Lite 3.4


BIOS
Date 09/14/2012
Vendor AMI
Version 8.08

Thanks in advance for and suggestions....

bgtexas

I'm still learning, tweaking, and playing around with this new install of Lite. I'm constantly being amazed at what it can do. One of the problems I was experiencing on my old install of Mint 18.1, was a painfully sluggish Firefox. Not only did it take a LONG time to open the app, everything about my web surfing was slow. I have Internet service with my cable provider and have 100 Mbps service. I was NEVER able to see speeds above about 50 Mbps. While that's plenty fast to do all the things I do, I just felt cheated that I couldn't get everything I was paying for. I just ran another speed test and this one was only 106.40. Yesterday I was constantly hitting 108 - 112 Mbps.

Another thing I'm noticing is that Firefox itself just SNAPS when I do anything like open a new tab, open bookmarks, or open anything on the MenuBar. It's just a great feeling to actually see this laptop performing the way it should be. This G50 isn't a very high end laptop, but with the hardware it does have I knew it should be showing me a lot more than it was with Mint. Don't misunderstand me. I'm not criticizing Linux Mint. I used it for  long time with no complaints. It's just that something started happening between Mint and my 2 laptops about version 17.1 to cause really sluggish performance. It's entirely possible that the real problem was with the laptops, or the way I tweaked my installs, and not with Mint at all. I'm just really pleased with the way the 2 laptops are performing now with Lite. Looks like I'll be around here for a long while.