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Glad To Be Here - BrandNew - 06-24-2014
My name is Greg and I'm new to Linux. Some of you may already know me as gregoryforlinux on the LinuxDistroCommunity I've experimented with Zorin 6, 8, Ubuntu 12.04, Mint Cinnamon 14 and 16. I've ran many more from Live DVDs and Flash Drives but didn't install them. I finally got a distro installed onto my old Desktop Computer. I'm currently enjoying LXLE. I'm duel booting Windows Vista and LXLE. The end goal is to get something like LXLE doing everything that I used to do in Vista, and eventually remove it. So far the only real issue I've had with LXLE is that once in a while it won't completely shut the computer down. Then I haft to force shut down. Other then that it's been running flawlessly.
It has been suggested to me many many many times to try Linux Lite. I tried Linux Lite 1.0.8 64 bit live and I installed to an external hard drive. I had a few problems with it. Out of box I didn't like the volume control. I couldn't use my mouse to change the volume. Secondly after I did the install, I couldn't get it to accept my WiFi password. As I recall I tried the password 5 to 6 times and it failed every time. But as a live DVD it took it just fine. Just Plain Weird. o.O
The reason I joined these forums is because I was told that the volume control problem is fixed. I downloaded the latest Linux Lite LTS 2.0 and burned it to a Live DVD. I am pleased to see the Volume Control Problem is fixed! However I don't think it fully supports my sound card. My sound card is a 7.1 surround, and the highest Linux Lite allowed me to set it is 5.1. LXLE based on 12.04 Ubuntu does support my 7.1 surround card.
The Desktop is
Media Series Desktop Board
Intel DG965OT - for the intel core 2 duo processor
Supports intel Viiv Technology
uATX Form Factor
Intel PRO 10/100/1000 Network Connection
Support for Dual-Channel DDR2 800 SDRAM
Microsoft Windows Vista Ready
Supports Dolby Home Theater
I am aware that it is an out of date board. The support for it has ended and thus is the reason why Windows 7 never worked exactly right. Here is the Intel website link to the main board.
http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/highlights/dsktpboards/dg965ot
Here is the manual to the main board:
http://downloadmirror.intel.com/15058/eng/DG965OT_TechProdSpec.pdf
Here is my current computer set up specs.
CPU
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 @ 2.13GHz 142 °F
Conroe 65nm Technology
RAM
4.00GB DDR2
Motherboard
Intel Corporation DG965OT (J1PR) 123 °F
Graphics
LM742 (1280x1024@60Hz)
Intel G965 Express Chipset Family (Intel)
Storage
149GB Seagate ST3160815AS (SATA) 105 °F
Optical Drives
ATAPI iHAP122 9 ATA Device
Audio
IDT High Definition Audio CODEC
CPU
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400
RAM
Memory slots
Total memory slots 4
Used memory slots 4
Free memory slots 0
Memory
Type DDR2
Size 4096 MBytes
Physical Memory
Memory Usage 60 %
Total Physical 3.24 GB
Available Physical 1.29 GB
Total Virtual 6.68 GB
Available Virtual 4.52 GB
I don't currently have enough hard drive space on this machine for Linux Lite too. But I'm planning on adding an hard disk so that I do. Don't get me wrong, I think Linux Lite is cool, and I look forward to following it's development.
I decided to make a complete list of all the Linux Distro's I've tried as Live DVDs. I'm really happy to finally have made this list because it's helped me organize my discs, and whenever someone tells me to try something, I have a list.
64studio 32
64studio 64
Antix 3.7.10 AMD 64
AV Linux 32
Blag
Bodhi-2.4.0-nonpae-32
Clonezilla
Dragora
Dynebolic-3.0.0-beta
Edubuntu
Feather 0.7.5
Fedora Linux
Gnewsense
Kaspersky Rescue Disk
Kubuntu AMD 64
Linux Lite 1.0.8 64
Linux Lite 32
Linux Lite 2.0 64
Linux Mint Cinnamon 14 64
Linux Mint Cinnamon 16 64
Linux Mint-14.1 Mate 64bit
Lubuntu
Lucid Puppy
LXLE 32
LXLE 64
LXLE 14.04 64 Bit
Manjaro .088
Memtest86-5.1.0
Memtest86+-5.01
MusixGNU
Opensuse 13.1
OpenSuse 13.1 Gnome
OpenSuse 13.1 KDE Live
OpenSuse 13.1 Live
OpenSuse 13.1 KDE Live
Pinguy OS
Precise Puppy
Slacko Puppy Linux
Slacko Puppy NO PAE
Slacko Puppy PAE
Slax Linux
SuperX
Trisquel 6.0 Gnulinux
Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
Ubuntu Studio
Xubuntu Linux
Zorin 6 – 32 LTS Lite
Zorin 6 – 64 LTS
Zorin 7 – 64
Zorin 8 – 64