04-30-2018, 12:23 AM
Hi there!
I'm new at the forum, but have been a LinuxLite user for almost two years now, and wanted to include my impressions about the new beta.
Downloaded it, saved it to an USB drive via Etcher, installed it to an old HDD, and have been giving it a run. My findings were:
1.-The background used on boot (greyish?) looks waaaay better than the yellow one.
2.-I like my sound equalized, so I always install pulseaudio-equalizer, ...it didn't work on LL4.0 :'(
3.-Installed and tried FreeCAD, OpenShot, Audacity, FireJail (with Firetools). And all of them are working perfectly!
4.-It's great that LL now includes NotoSans as the default font.
5.-Settings Manager now is called Control Panel? ;D a-la-windows-like?
6.-Software updater didn't find available drivers for my system's graphics chip, however back in ver. 3.8 I had no problem installing them.
7.-The default Adapta-Adapta theming shows nice colors, but is not very legible, so I switched to my usual Clearlooks and combined it with the Adapta window theme.
8.-I always utilize Iridium browser. I had no problem downloading it and installing it. Works like charm.
So far I have had no stability problems.
Boot-up is not as fast as on ver. 3.8, even as I followed Jerry's recommendations. Hoping that this is improved on the final release. Note: Messed up boot times are a recurring problem in the world of xxBuntus, so, bummer. :'(
I'll stay in touch.
Take care.
I'm new at the forum, but have been a LinuxLite user for almost two years now, and wanted to include my impressions about the new beta.
Downloaded it, saved it to an USB drive via Etcher, installed it to an old HDD, and have been giving it a run. My findings were:
1.-The background used on boot (greyish?) looks waaaay better than the yellow one.
2.-I like my sound equalized, so I always install pulseaudio-equalizer, ...it didn't work on LL4.0 :'(
3.-Installed and tried FreeCAD, OpenShot, Audacity, FireJail (with Firetools). And all of them are working perfectly!
4.-It's great that LL now includes NotoSans as the default font.
5.-Settings Manager now is called Control Panel? ;D a-la-windows-like?
6.-Software updater didn't find available drivers for my system's graphics chip, however back in ver. 3.8 I had no problem installing them.
7.-The default Adapta-Adapta theming shows nice colors, but is not very legible, so I switched to my usual Clearlooks and combined it with the Adapta window theme.
8.-I always utilize Iridium browser. I had no problem downloading it and installing it. Works like charm.
So far I have had no stability problems.
Boot-up is not as fast as on ver. 3.8, even as I followed Jerry's recommendations. Hoping that this is improved on the final release. Note: Messed up boot times are a recurring problem in the world of xxBuntus, so, bummer. :'(
I'll stay in touch.
Take care.
Pathological tweaker.