08-12-2017, 03:09 PM
Hello,
I am very new to Linux, just started using Linux Lite 3.4, Mint 17.1 (xfce) and Cinnamon 18.2 in the last month. I introduced myself in the Mint forum, but realize this is a separate forum so here goes:
I am a retired veterinarian in Canada spending part of the year in South Africa where my husband and I do volunteer work with disadvantaged male youth between 14-22. I erase and reformat older donated laptops to bring with us to place with deserving youth to assist them with their studies. I also hold study groups with the youth after school as well as help one-on-one with primarily math and science.
Until I investigated Linux I was loading Windows XP on the computers and battling at times to find the correct drivers! I am loving the "works out of the box" feature to Linux.
I have tried various searches for the following questions I have, but did not find posts with the same questions (answered) - perhaps I am not searching correctly thus please excuse me. Feel free to give me tips on searches:
NOTE: The majority of the computers I get fall into two categories: ones with RAM of 512mb to 0.99 GB OR 2 GB RAM (Perhaps most of you would say these are all in the same category!).
1) So far I have deduced that Linux Lite would be best on the lesser computers (under 1 GB) and on the 2GB RAM computers I felt Linux Mint xfce 17.1 was best. Does this make sense..? or should I be using Lite on all of them...
2) Should I be enabling zRAM on some or all of these?
3) One of the donated computers is an HP Chromebook (RAM 2GB but HD only 16 GB) - which version would be best for it?
4) I did see from other posts that there is no screen saver on Linux Lite 3.4 (haven't checked yet to see if the other two versions have screensavers). Should I not do something so as to protect the screens, if so what? I didn't really understand the "light locker"...
5) Lastly, the youth periodically may be inserting USB sticks to copy material to then have printed. What can I do to avoid virus transfer as I have already had youth have issues on a couple of computers running XP?
Would I be best to simply post my questions elsewhere (e.g.software?)?
I am very new to Linux, just started using Linux Lite 3.4, Mint 17.1 (xfce) and Cinnamon 18.2 in the last month. I introduced myself in the Mint forum, but realize this is a separate forum so here goes:
I am a retired veterinarian in Canada spending part of the year in South Africa where my husband and I do volunteer work with disadvantaged male youth between 14-22. I erase and reformat older donated laptops to bring with us to place with deserving youth to assist them with their studies. I also hold study groups with the youth after school as well as help one-on-one with primarily math and science.
Until I investigated Linux I was loading Windows XP on the computers and battling at times to find the correct drivers! I am loving the "works out of the box" feature to Linux.
I have tried various searches for the following questions I have, but did not find posts with the same questions (answered) - perhaps I am not searching correctly thus please excuse me. Feel free to give me tips on searches:
NOTE: The majority of the computers I get fall into two categories: ones with RAM of 512mb to 0.99 GB OR 2 GB RAM (Perhaps most of you would say these are all in the same category!).
1) So far I have deduced that Linux Lite would be best on the lesser computers (under 1 GB) and on the 2GB RAM computers I felt Linux Mint xfce 17.1 was best. Does this make sense..? or should I be using Lite on all of them...
2) Should I be enabling zRAM on some or all of these?
3) One of the donated computers is an HP Chromebook (RAM 2GB but HD only 16 GB) - which version would be best for it?
4) I did see from other posts that there is no screen saver on Linux Lite 3.4 (haven't checked yet to see if the other two versions have screensavers). Should I not do something so as to protect the screens, if so what? I didn't really understand the "light locker"...
5) Lastly, the youth periodically may be inserting USB sticks to copy material to then have printed. What can I do to avoid virus transfer as I have already had youth have issues on a couple of computers running XP?
Would I be best to simply post my questions elsewhere (e.g.software?)?