Hello, I am new to Linux, and I recently installed Linux Lite on my old laptop, which has Windows 7 installed on it, and Linux Lite blows Windows 7 out of the water! it's so much faster and more reliable than Windows 7! It makes my 3-4 year old laptop feel brand new again!
I'm going to build a new PC in a month or so, with the highest end specs possible, and having it dual-boot multiple OSes, and it's looking very likely that Linux Lite will be it's main OS! I'll get myself the DVD and Case badge from the LL store when I get to doing that!
Which raises the question, what Graphics Cards have drivers that support Linux? Preferably AMD ones, after hearing about an apparent scandal Nvidia were doing with publishers to lie/exaggerate about game requirements, I'm not buying another Nvidia card if I can help it! Does there exist a list of cards that support Linux?
It isn't perfect, however, I have a few issues, which I might end up making a new topic for, unless it's fine to post them here?
The Linux Lite Welcome Screen is a great addition and will be very helpful to new Linux users! 8)
Dear LL Team,
I have been successfully been installing LL2 in my USB & USB HDD and its working fine, except following issue;
1.When installed in USB HDD i configured one of the extended partition as FAT32 and gave the mount point as Windows the software installs and at reboot the grub runs and displays the standard LL boot options and then once booted to LL2 it goes blank further OS doesn't get loaded.
2.I reinstalled the same with all extended partitions as ext4 format it works fine.
I tried this n number of times the above 2 options the result was same, right now i working with the option 2, but i want to configure one of the partitions as FAT32.
Pl help me in this
Arun
I use LinuxLite on 2 systems and love it!
I am helping a French friend to move from Windows, and I would like to be able to point him to any and all support and documentation in French.
I know of "ubuntu-fr.org", and I know that Linux Mint is headed by a Frenchman and has pretty good support, but I wondered if there is any LinuxLite specific help available for French speakers?
All help gratefully accepted!
Mintstick is a GUI to write .img or .iso files to a USB Key. It can also format them.
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Here is how to install it. You will have to use the command line (because the word Terminal is, apparently, scary for some people 
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1. Download the package file
wget 'http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/main/m/mintstick/mintstick_1.2.1_all.deb'md5sum mintstick_1.2.1_all.debIf it's not go to step 4 and then go to step 1
MD5sum: f0116fa08ec827df80f677c02831d02d
3. Install the package
sudo gdebi 'mintstick_1.2.1_all.deb'rm mintstick_1.2.1_all.debYou can also setup a custom action in Thunar for the USB image writer.
1. Open the Thunar file manager
2. Click on Edit and then on Configure custom actions
3. Add A new custom action by clicking on a '+' button
4. Enter this in the text boxes:
Name: Write to usb
Description: Selects .iso or .img file for writing to the usb drive.
Command:
mintstick -m iso -i %n5. Click on Appearance Conditions tab
6. In the File pattern enter:
*.iso;*.ISO;*.img;*.IMGTo use this to write files from the Desktop you will have to log out and back in.
Now you can right-click on any .iso or .img file and then write that file to usb drive.
new install of LL2.0 i did a terminal sudo lshw -C display which shows my Ati HD4850 card BUT when i "update drivers" i get no drivers found. soo? what should i do?? i have updated the OS..
description: VGA compatible controller
product: RV770 [Radeon HD 4850]
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: 00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=radeon latency=0
resources: irq:45 memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:fd9e0000-fd9effff ioport:be00(size=256) memory:fd900000-fd91ffff
Don't consider myself as being "geeky" by definition...just someone who likes to learn and adapt to eventually become adept in a process. Linux is providing this opportunity,and, one really must needs say thank you.
In my excitement to "get going" with a new distro made a mistake with the update process that proved to be quite elusive in finding the correct answer. Found the answer here after hours and hours of searching and rewording. Been down this road before, was confident the answer was simple and just needed some more time to find. There is was, someone had a similar problem and the last post provided the key. All is well now 
LinuxLite...this one's a keeper! Kind regards to all and have a great day!
Basically, I'm looking for software that will allow me to put songs from my iPod (Touch, 4th Gen, if that makes a difference ) onto my PC. And also be able to add / delete songs from there as well...
I've tried this "gtkpod" thing, but I can't get it to work. The "Assistant" I believe they call it, doesn't pop up 
If anyone has any advice, it'd be greatly appreciated
Thoroughly enjoying my new-found experience with LL. Thanks to several very helpful members on here, I should add.
I've got just about everything going as I want it except one niggly thing. Although LL recognises my laptop's sound card and will play back anything I choose, I just can't seem to get the mic/headphone ports to operate. When I plug my jacks in (singly or together) I get no sound through them - only vis my laptop speakers.
Has anyone had this issue?
sudo apt-get install espeak#!/bin/sh
slp=0s
rep=0
vol=1
text='Reactor Online. Sensors Online. Weapons Online. All Systems Nominal. '
while getopts 'w:r:v:t:' OPTION
do
case $OPTION in
w) slp="$OPTARG"
;;
r) rep="$OPTARG"
;;
v) vol="$OPTARG"
;;
t) text="$OPTARG"
;;
?) printf "Usage: %s: [-w wait <$slp>] [-r repeat <$rep>] [-v vol <$vol>] [-t text <$text>] \n" $(basename $0)
exit 2
;;
esac
done
sleep $slp
echo $text | espeak --stdout -s120 -k18 -a200 -v 'en+f5' --stdin | play -v $vol -t wav - \
chorus 0.4 0.8 20 0.5 0.10 2 -t \
echo 0.9 0.8 33 0.9 \
echo 0.7 0.7 10 0.2 \
echo 0.9 0.2 55 0.5 \
gain 20 \
repeat $reprep-repetition
vol-volume in range from 0 to1