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I've successfully installed Linux Lite 32bit in an old HP laptop (pentium IV, 685MB ram). I'm very impressed: this distro worked out of the box without hiccups, recognized all the hardware, is good looking and amazing fast. I will keep Linux Lite in this laptop as the only OS.
I have installed previously here Peppermint 3 (also very fast) and Linux Mint 13 Xfce (fast, but less than Linux Lite).
Linux Lite 2.4 is LTS and will be supported until 2019, that is more than the (probable) lifespan of my laptop...
Thanks to the developers, nice work!
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(05-08-2015, 05:47 PM)xfrank link Wrote: I've successfully installed Linux Lite 32bit in an old HP laptop (pentium IV, 685MB ram). I'm very impressed: this distro worked out of the box without hiccups, recognized all the hardware, is good looking and amazing fast. I will keep Linux Lite in this laptop as the only OS.
I have installed previously here Peppermint 3 (also very fast) and Linux Mint 13 Xfce (fast, but less than Linux Lite).
Linux Lite 2.4 is LTS and will be supported until 2019, that is more than the (probable) lifespan of my laptop...
Thanks to the developers, nice work!
Welcome Xfrank,
Thanks for letting us know how it runs on your PC.
I hope your laptop will be working much longer than you expect.
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(05-08-2015, 07:21 PM)rijnsma link Wrote: Hi Xfrank.
LL with Xfce 4.12 is great. And no more desktop-icon-bug at last (like they told us). ;D
rijnsma, it's been said before, we will not offer our support if you installed XFCE 4.12, it has not been tested yet on LL.
It's a good idea to stick with the one that's already in LL.
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Hello, xfrank!
Welcome to Linux Lite and the support forums. Thank you for the kind words!
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05-09-2015, 02:30 PM
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Thanks to all, this forum seems indeed very friendly. Now that I've discovered LL I'll try to install it in other PCs and reccomend it to my friends and other people.
IMHO, what is amazing about LL is:
1 - recognize all the hardware on the fly, all. For example, my laptop has a tricky Broadcom wifi card, that wasn't recognized by Peppermint and Mint (despite long and painful efforts), but LL was quick to load the driver and it works!
2 - Xfce desktop is snappy, and even so, it consumes around 180mb only! (idle) This way even weak/old machines as my poor Pentium IV laptop from 2004 (HP nx9110), can be useful again with a decent performance.
3 - the artwork is very pleasant and professional. No need to customize it: is good out-of-the-box. I added only a conky with conky manager.
4 - for beginners is very friendly and easy. I'm not a beginner (more like a medium skilled linux user) but the easy of use is appreciated anyway, and LL can be reccomended to newcomers to the linux world.
