Hello,

I have added a poll 'Linux Popularity and Growth', to my blog (link below).
I am asking if people can vote as to whether they are thinking about trying Linux as their desktop OS, or if they already use Linux to vote how long they have used Linux.

If I can get enough votes to make a base line, I will run the poll each year and make a results chart showing growth of Linux amongst deskstop users.

Hello everyone
I switched from Linux Mint 18 XFCE to Linux Lite 3.2, because I wanted to test something new.
Started with Ubuntu 6.0something and adored Gnome2 a lot. With Gnome3 I switched to Mint KDE4 and liked it as well.
Did not like KDE5 and thus switched to Mint XFCE.

Strangely, I had to install LL 3.2 twice, somewhere in between it crashed and I had to do the procedure again. The same with my mum's hp notebook (bye bye Windows 10). After the second run LL 3.2 worked flawlessly, on both machines. Upgrade to LL 3.4 worked perfectly. Did something stupid and decided that re-installation of LL 3.4 would be the quickest way. The system stopped when I activated WLAN (started live-system three times). Thus I installed LL 3.2 (again, twice), did the upgrade and have been happy with it since then.

I look forward to following the topics of the other users.

Is there lite backdoor? >
Cooperation with NSA >
Or Other? >

When i want to open more than one file i just type: cat file1 file2 press Enter and the files appear one on top of the other. Is there a way to put a space between these files?  Thanks

 

I got into Linux to install Bitwig Studio, a professional audio DAW. So I finally got JACK down and also installed the low latency kernel.  So my 7 year old AMD Phenon II 955 PC runs really fast with Bitwig and JACK on Linux Lite. I like it much better then Windows 7 and 10. I had trouble installing Linux even though I have a dedicated hard drive. The problem was the edimax wifi adapter and being too far away from the router. I switched to a wired connection and that seemed to solve all the problems for installing. When installing I didn't realize about the swap drive and that has taken 12GB out of 64GB. I'm looking to remove that. So far everything is going smooth..

Hi,
My laptop hangs in the middle of the work, I am using linux lite 3.2 since 2 weeks, my laptop configuration are as follow- 2 gb ram , intel pentuim M quad core 2930 processor @ 2.16 ghz ,  i suppose linuxlite is light weight os, is 2 gb not enough ? why is my laptop hanging frequently ? is there any virus ? pls help to solve this issue.

Decided to try a "lite" version of Linux for a change since I have lots of older hardware gathering dust. Coming from a RPM / KDE background going back more than 20 years, I find this very delightful  8)

Going to revive my old Asus netbook 701 which I pimped many years ago with extra ram, touch screen and bluetooth! Loaded Lite on a Dell D630 dual core 64 bit.... and it is flying!!! Impressed 

Just one question for now... where do I configure the screen saver? LOL  ;D

Just re-salvaged my old Asus Eee PC 900HD (the XP Edition from '09-'10, I think), and I will be crawling like crazy amongst the various threads and topics in a desperate attempt to figure out what I'm doing. The Lite is still currently updating. I had tried to install Lite yesterday, but ran into the "creating user" error that that was mentioned on another part of this forum. I decided to follow those instruction by not encrypting my home folder, but I also left my drive unencrypted and also decided to load from USB without an active internet connection as an added precaution. That last step was in response to a bug in Linux Mint KDE install that I experienced on my Toshi c-75 about 2 month back. Hopefully, I figure out how to encrypt my drive and home folder without having to resort to crying or bribery.
Personal projects regarding LinuxLite: Absolutely everything form learning a programming language, screwing with ALL the packages and apps. Learning what this terminal thingy is, etc, etc. I haven't done squat with computers since One Key Logo...
Pray for my little Asus

Hi all,

I'm trying to use python 3.5 on LinuxLite 3.4.  I've installed and all went well.  However whe I try to add a python module with pip and pip3 I get an error.  For example

$ pip install holidays
Collecting holidays
Collecting python-dateutil (from holidays)
  Using cached python_dateutil-2.6.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Requirement already satisfied: six>=1.5 in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from python-dateutil->holidays)
Installing collected packages: python-dateutil, holidays
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/jeff/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/home/jeff/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 342, in run
    prefix=options.prefix_path,
  File "/home/jeff/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 784, in install
    **kwargs
  File "/home/jeff/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 851, in install
    self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root, prefix=prefix)
  File "/home/jeff/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 1064, in move_wheel_files
    isolated=self.isolated,
  File "/home/jeff/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 345, in move_wheel_files
    clobber(source, lib_dir, True)
  File "/home/jeff/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 316, in clobber
    ensure_dir(destdir)
  File "/home/jeff/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/utils/__init__.py", line 83, in ensure_dir
    os.makedirs(path)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 157, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/python_dateutil-2.6.0.dist-info'

Any ideas or suggestions?
Jeff

I've been getting a blank "update screen" for the last few days when I use "Install updates".  When I update through the command line, I do see stuff to be updated.  The install function is doing its job, the only problem is that whatever needs to be updated won't show up in GUI mode.(at the end of the process, the update window does show me what's been updated).  I only see this in the machine described in the left profile.  No problem in VM 3.4 or in Lenovo LL 2.8