G'day All,


Just curious about people's opinions on using the btrfs filesystem vs ext4.
I've been using btrfs for new installs of different distro's for about a year now, so far mostly without any hassles.
Apparently it's to be the way of the future, eventually.


What are your thoughts on using or not using it?


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I have an LL3.4/Win7 dual-boot setup on a single 250GB SSD, for a Dell Latitude D630.
However, I needed a bigger drive for more data files and also a Windows recovery partition, the latter apparently needing a significant about of disk space.

So, I cloned the above set-up onto a 500GB SSD using the 'dd' command:

Jerry,
Would you consider MegaSync as an alternative to Dropbox for the LL distros  Based in NZ they offer 50GB of secure cloud storage for free and have linux options..  Trialling it now as Dropbox storage offers limited  "free"capacity by modern standards.

Hello, Everyone,

Noticed a bit of a strange thing. I use LibreOffice Draw quite a bit, and I wanted to add it to my Favorites list in the Menu. But when I went to find it under Menu>All, I didn't see it listed at all. Only Writer, Calc, and Base are listed. Yet, Draw is installed, and I have been using it (by opening Writer then File>New>Drawing). So my question is, how do I add it to the Menu items, so that I can add it to my Favorite programs?

Thanks!
Kris

I'm happy to say that I got Lite 3.4 - 64 Bit installed on my Lenovo G50-45 this afternoon. I had trouble yesterday getting it on my wife's B50-45, but finally got it. I had no trouble at all installing on my G50. Everything went silky smooth. I did all the updates, tweaked the look of things a little bit, then even did a full home directory backup and set a restore point. I don't normally do either one, but figured it would be nice to be able to roll things back if need be. I'm going to do the backup and restore on my wife's laptop maybe tomorrow, then I'm considering copying the backup and restore from both laptops onto a USB flash stick for safe keeping off the hard drives.

I just can't say enough about how totally impressed with Lite I am. I've been using Linux on every PC in my house for about 15 years now. Over that time I've tried, and used, a wide selection of distros. I've been pretty loyal to Mint Mate for the last few years. I'm not sure what happened, but both of the laptops we have started experiencing real sluggish behavior. It started with version 17.1 and continued as I upgraded to 18 and 18.1, which is why I started looking for an alternative distro. Really glad I did. My wife's laptop is like a whole new critter now. My G50 is unbelievable with Lite on it.

So to each and every person involved with making Lite what it is today, THANK YOU!

I kind of hate to be so dumb about something like this, but I'm just not following what all is going on with Flash for Linux. As I do understand, Adobe/Macromedia is no longer supporting or developing Flash for Linux. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong. But I see regular updates coming as I do my software updates. But then I also see different attempts at other third party alternatives. So, what's the story? Should I be using Flash or not. Is there an alternative I should definitely be using?

Any help on this will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I have 2.8 installed on /dev/sda3 with 3906 gb
I have Ubuntu installed on /dev/sda6 with 3900 gb
I want to remove 2.8 and install 3.4-32bit.iso in it place
How do I remove 2.8 and where do I install grub
Ubuntu is first and boots first from the grub menu

Hi. Newbie. Recently installed Lite 3.4 on Dell Inspiron 5565.

When I leave it alone for a little it doesn't just sleep, like Windows, it half turns off. The only way I can get it to start is by holding power to completely turn off and start from scratch. this is kind of a pain. I have tried playing with Power Manager, it was set on "never", which obviously wasn't true, for plugged and unplugged, I set it to the max and it did the same thing in an hour or less maybe. This is a hassle if I want to download something. I am used to leaving this to happen overnight sometimes... Any help would be appreciated.

I've done some cursory searching but haven't found the answer. I hope this hasn't been addressed a bunch of times already.

I have a really old laptop (HP Pavilion ze4600) that I have installed Linux Lite on. At first everything was running quite well, but somewhere in the process of various upgrades and updates I have lost the ability to surf the web! I have Firefox, Chrome, and Midori installed but none of them will launch. Firefox claims there is another session open or else the "firefox had a problem and crashed" dialog box opens, Chrome simply doesn't respond, and Midori complains about a problem with the bookmarks. I have "flashplugin-legacy" installed but it doesn't make any difference.

Is there anything I can do to get browsing working again on this computer, or do I need to re-install an older version of Linux?

ETA: I reinstalled the flashplugin package and now I can get Midori working, at least, but it would be nice to be able to use one of the other browsers too.

We're about 60 days from the next version of Linux Lite (3.6). How about a preview of things coming in the next release? Got anything that will whet our appetites?