Apparently, according to the youtube video link below, when one signs up to Win 10, you're agreeing to a massive invasion of privacy and security.  If the following is true then this is extremely worrying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEBzc1GHUQE

About half-way through the youtube video, the phone-call finishes and an English guy gives you step-by-step advice on his PC on how to inactivate win10's 'spy-ware'. Worth watching if you want to use win10.

Thankfully, I decided to stop at win8.1 and anyway my main OS for everyday use has been and will continue to be LL - a lot simpler & safer!

Cheers
Mike

My post didn't go through,,,, WHY

Having set up a home network of 3 pc's all went well till I changed the 'distro' on one.It could see the others but not share
following the tutorial (Linux Lite.. very good) didn't seem to help on the other  machine . Having read loads of posts I came across a mention of 'Nitroshare' which I investigated .
Download a copy to each pc and run .. Instant network and share very easy and no in depth knowledge required.
Hope this will help others from tearing their hair out.

When I click on 'Install Updates' in the Menu I get the following error message: 'couldn't fetch the package cache information lists'
Is there a way of fixing this?

When the above happens (which is always at the moment) I use the terminal instead and type:

Is that sufficient, or do I need to have the command 'install' somewhere in that code?

Thanks for your help
Mike

I just finished installing my Canon image class MF 4570dw printer but am unable to get the two-sided printing feature to work.  I go to Printer Properties -> Job Options -> Common Options -> Sides.  From there I have the option of one-sided, two-sided long-edge, and two-sided short-edge.  After I click either of the available two-sided options and choose "Apply", it immediately flips back to one-sided printing.  Any idea on how to get the two-sided option to stick?

I'm brand new to Linux and am so glad to have come upon Linux Lite.  This is REALLY nice! 

I'm running Linux Lite 2.6 and for a while has not been able to fetch the file list, so, can update, any hints?

Hello gang,


Things have been very solid here for quite some time. But a problem that I had had before has cropped up again and I'd like to deal with it.


I use LibreOffice, and sometimes I will get larger files and reformat them. Typically I will do RegEx searches to find and replace blank lines and unwanted line endings.


Since Day One, Linux Lite 2.4 with its default LibreOffice would have problems doing this for files of any size - say, 1MB or more. CPU for LO will go to 50%, which doesn't seem too bad, but the display will partially freeze and the system will be largely or totally unusable.


Now I'm on LL 2.8 (x64, BTW) with LO 5.1.3 (x64 also), and the same thing is happening to a 1.7MB file. I split the file up into four files, and it did the same thing. So file size is only a minor factor.


This time I kept the files in .txt format, so I could work on them in gedit. To my surprise, the same system lockup is happening there as well, suggesting that this is a system problem. When I do this in gedit, the gedit process goes to 30% CPU, but another process called init goes to 35%, which is even worse than LO performed.


Any insight would be appreciated.

Hi dev folks,

I was wondering, what's being used to generate the various UI stuff needed by LL ?

There are a number of UI generators and graphical asset creators like Qt, Vadiin, and Sketch. Probably a lot of others that are good but that I don't know about. This is an area that I'm interested in learning more about.

Anyway, I wanted to see what's being used and which ones seem to be the most popular. It's one thing to go to a website and read their info but it's another thing to talk to developers directly about which ones are the most popular so that's why I wanted to ask here.

Are all of you working on UI's or is just Shaggy the main person who is doing this ?

Glin22

P.S. liked the work that was done on the control panel, thought it was really nice !

Hi completely new to Linux Lite thus far loving its speed and simplicity although I run in to this problem 



I click yes to continue

This is the result



Any help 

For several weeks I can not obtain updates. It stops at final phase when it should list available updates. Message is that it can not fetch the list of available updates.