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« Last post by alloydog on Today at 11:25:29 AM »Weeeell, things took a surprising turn. The Lenovo 330 ideapad was a failure. It would run OK for about 24-hours after a clean install, then the next day, it would fail to boot. (See LL 6.6 runs OK after clean install, but crashes after about 24-hours.
But when it did run, it was just as bad as the Dell! It now has Windows 10 back on it and is serving as a controller for a bunch of printers.
I resurrected the Dell and it was getting reeeeal slow. Then programmes, such as Chromium and OpenOffice were not opening. Aisleriot and Mines were OK, but I can't surf the net or write notes with them.
I went to move some files from a USB-stick to the laptop, not even big ones, less than a Meg. Could do it due to lack of space. That raised an eyebrow. I checked: sure enough, the file manager was showing 234,6 GB of 234,6 GB was used!
I had installed a few games and other programmes that I hardly or even never used, so I tried to use Synaptic, then apt-get to remove them. I first tried WINE, but it would happen, as there was not enough space. I removed some others first, which freed up space, then moved onto getting rid of WINE.
Also I ditched a few Gigs worth of personal files I have backed up elsewhere. In the end, I cleared out just over 60 GB of junk.
Now the old Dell runs uite nicely - OK, it's not a lean, mean, gaming machine, but it is no longer frustratingly slow.
Problem solved
But when it did run, it was just as bad as the Dell! It now has Windows 10 back on it and is serving as a controller for a bunch of printers.
I resurrected the Dell and it was getting reeeeal slow. Then programmes, such as Chromium and OpenOffice were not opening. Aisleriot and Mines were OK, but I can't surf the net or write notes with them.
I went to move some files from a USB-stick to the laptop, not even big ones, less than a Meg. Could do it due to lack of space. That raised an eyebrow. I checked: sure enough, the file manager was showing 234,6 GB of 234,6 GB was used!
I had installed a few games and other programmes that I hardly or even never used, so I tried to use Synaptic, then apt-get to remove them. I first tried WINE, but it would happen, as there was not enough space. I removed some others first, which freed up space, then moved onto getting rid of WINE.
Also I ditched a few Gigs worth of personal files I have backed up elsewhere. In the end, I cleared out just over 60 GB of junk.
Now the old Dell runs uite nicely - OK, it's not a lean, mean, gaming machine, but it is no longer frustratingly slow.
Problem solved
