11-29-2015, 10:37 PM
First time post. Hi everyone. Well, this topic caught my eye because after a year of using Linux Mint MATE I just spent two weeks trying out other distributions, mostly on my little Gateway LT-40 notbook (I think the same as the ASUS Aspire One). I tried Linux Mint XFCE, Manjaro (from the Arch camp), AntiX and the AntiX/Mepis MX-15 hybrid, PCLinuxOS, and Debian 8 "Jessie."
Of course Mint worked well out of the box, but for some reason I was bored with it. All the others had one or more problems after the install (sound, display backlight, wifi, suspend recovery, etc.) that required research and tweeking. This was all very educational, but in the end I found that Linux Lite 2.6 had the XFCE desktop I like and didn't require any extra work to get going. My only real complaint was NumLk being on by default, which had me tearing my hair the first few times I tried to enter my sudo password.
I have done some tweeking on LL (touchpad sensitivity control in synaptics.conf, swappiness=10 in sysctl.conf, "elevator-cfg" in grub--the usual optional stuff. Due to the small 1024 x 600 display I have one narrow panel on the left side of the screen containing battery, weather, volume, and wifi notifications, clock, menu button, and a small collection of program icons. I installed maximus so most windows open full screen (except for the panel) and I use Alt-Tab to switch between windows. The setup is very simiiar to the default Manjaro Netbook display. I also went into Appearance and jacked up the custom DPI setting for easier reading.
Well, that's it for now. I'm considering putting LL on my "pawnshop rescue" Dell Latitude E6410 which is currently running Manjaro, but I'm going to wait a bit and enjoy my notebook.
Best regards,
Andy N1KSN
Menahsa, WI
Of course Mint worked well out of the box, but for some reason I was bored with it. All the others had one or more problems after the install (sound, display backlight, wifi, suspend recovery, etc.) that required research and tweeking. This was all very educational, but in the end I found that Linux Lite 2.6 had the XFCE desktop I like and didn't require any extra work to get going. My only real complaint was NumLk being on by default, which had me tearing my hair the first few times I tried to enter my sudo password.
I have done some tweeking on LL (touchpad sensitivity control in synaptics.conf, swappiness=10 in sysctl.conf, "elevator-cfg" in grub--the usual optional stuff. Due to the small 1024 x 600 display I have one narrow panel on the left side of the screen containing battery, weather, volume, and wifi notifications, clock, menu button, and a small collection of program icons. I installed maximus so most windows open full screen (except for the panel) and I use Alt-Tab to switch between windows. The setup is very simiiar to the default Manjaro Netbook display. I also went into Appearance and jacked up the custom DPI setting for easier reading.
Well, that's it for now. I'm considering putting LL on my "pawnshop rescue" Dell Latitude E6410 which is currently running Manjaro, but I'm going to wait a bit and enjoy my notebook.
Best regards,
Andy N1KSN
Menahsa, WI