My take / suggestions on linux lite

[pauloz]

I'm curious Lynne, what didn't impress you about LL 2.8?

Paul

[Lynne]

oh dear, now I've done it!

Well, @pauloz, it (LL 2.8 beta) seemed just so much the same with only a couple of tweaks. Now don't misunderstand me, I do like LL ... a lot! But the tweaks for 2.8 beta did not seem to be needed for me ... that's "for me". For others it is just what is needed, but for me, I have everything I want in LL 2.6. I know the new version of LL into the ver 3 series will have a bit more because I have faith in the developers that as they target a wider windoze audience they will include more "tweaks" to grab and tease them to come to Linux. Plus there are all the "solved" questions here in the forum to consider either including or ignoring in the next version series.

So my two cups of coffee (caffeine) is really getting me thinking and that could be a bit of a give-away for when I want to be just so much a "dippy older lady".

Later people ...  8)

[pauloz]

Thanks for your feedback Lynne.

I have to confess I tried Linux Mint Cinnamon 17.3 on my ultrabook for a few weeks and it just didn't cut with me - while fast, I was disappointed with the stability (occasional blank screens, erratic behaviour) so it was back to an old friend that has been on my desktop for close to 2 years.

Cheers to all LL users
Paul

[somewhereman]

chke419, hope you find what you are looking for

i am the average user gold_finger talked about,
use the office programs and then downloaded some graphics programs (to go with gimp)

as a new linux user who tried other distros,
the simplicity of Lite was a plus (i think Jerry is right, function over form to start the race)
(and the feather logo caught my attention, that is really apropos, good job whoever designed that)

as was mentioned, forums are also an important factor,
this one is friendly and helpful

[N4RPS]

Hello!

(LL 2.8 beta) seemed just so much the same with only a couple of tweaks.

Linux Lite point releases never change things too terribly much. When LL 2.8 is released, a brief updater will also be released to update those who want to do so to that version...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

[Lynne]

Hello!

Linux Lite point releases never change things too terribly much. When LL 2.8 is released, a brief updater will also be released to update those who want to do so to that version...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

Yes, I do understand that!

...  :-*

[chke419]

Wow, guess I've been away longer then I let my mind say I really was. So anyway I did try the other distro's and found myself not satisfied and reinstalled LL. I believe I am hooked. I did however purge auto remove some programs I don't/won't use and am a bit happier. And yes I did change some type sizes ect. to something I can live with for the time being. I do believe once I find a nicer themed bar with color I will be more at home once I truly learn how to. Someone needs to give life to these very drab and lifeless gray icons in the system tray.

In any route I am using LL now as we speak and have allot to learn. I will know this just as well as windows or die trying from here out. I do however have some thoughts or suggestions.

Wirezfree ... I did install bleachbit and used it and it seemed to do a good job however I did notice it didn't do government rewrites like East-tec Eraser did for windows. I habitually used 7 passes and now anything less is unacceptable especially in these days. I've done no research for bleachbit so there are allot of unanswered questions for the program. Once I found out in windows that delete didn't mean unrecoverable delete I ran East-tec and was a must from there out.

Another thing I am confused about is why everyone thinks Linux is so safe out of the box or that's the impression I've gotten. I totally intend to run something along the lines of spybot for windows/antivirus, firewall and privacy software. Linux might claim to be more safe then windows but I wouldn't take it for granted, not even for 1 moment. This is the true area that Linux as a whole needs to greatly improve is it's extra programs. Spybot out of the box was a master piece and yet I do a search for an alternative for linux and all's they have are antivirus programs which linux claims it does require. :o Go figure?

I've also stumbled on allot of scripts people use to do the same operations as bleachbit. The worst part is would be trusting scripts from folks you don't know on a system I don't know. Any points in the right direction would be greatly appreciated in this area as I must find a way for my 7 passes on unused space.

Next would be where I read of a program out there something on the lines of "remaster" that allows people to remaster a changed distro so that later on down the line a reinstall time would be cut greatly. This I would like and am surprised it's not in this distro if it is a well defined and stable program.

On last note I will say one thing, LL most definitely is very stable. I yanked several programs out of it and it never even burped at me when I finished. I couldn't even count all the times windows slapped me for taking out unused programs over the great many of years.

PS... I can see now that maybe the word "bloat" was not the best word to use when describing the software I don't use. People most definitely take offense to the word in linux where they didn't as windows users.

PSS... My many thanks to you all for being so pleasant with your thoughts and suggestions. I felt as I may have offended some of you with my thoughts but I am nothing but a straight forward type of person in life. I am no good at sugar coating something I see. I still don't understand the concept of linux offering a distro with more then the stable working OS but I am also proudly old fashion ... put nothing more then you intend to eat on your plate.

Anyway take care and god bless

A new LL user  ;D

[firenice03]

Welcome back 

Now that you've started getting LL set up more to how you like.. Don't forget to make a 'Systemback' back up..
Also be good to make a restore point prior to installing add-on should something not go as planned..

This may have been brought up initially but here's a link to the manual for customizing LL (Themes/Icon sets etc.)
https://www.freecinema2022.gq/manual/customize.html

Enjoy!

[chke419]

This may have been brought up initially but here's a link to the manual for customizing LL (Themes/Icon sets etc.)
https://www.freecinema2022.gq/manual/customize.html

Thanks for your response and yes I did see mention of this earlier and I even looked briefly at several web sites that have the themes but the problem I noticed was there were allot of them that didn't work or I didn't install them correctly which is very possible but I did follow the manual. I just wished someone had one they had already installed by the manual that added what I search for. I changed the color of the bar from gray but the system tray icons enlarged some still do no justice for the visually impaired.  :o There needs to be color in the icons to better distinguish it from the tray itself.

[avj]

You may want to try a different icon theme such as the one at the following link.

http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php/sm...ent=163261

The page has instructions for adding it so that it gets updates.

In a terminal enter the following lines of code one line at a time hitting enter after each line. After you finish you will be able to change the icon theme from Menu>Settings>Appearance.

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sasha-1594/smoothx

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install smoothx-xfce