04-06-2015, 07:24 PM
Hello,
I've been a Linux user for some years having ditched Windows a long long time ago. I'm not a Linux pro by any means though and still consider myself a numpty! ;D My main distro has been Peppermint Linux in various incarnations for some years now but I tried Linux Lite 2.1 last year on a spare drive after seeing it on a magazine disc. I liked it but I couldn't get it to run coming up with a boot error which was documented on the Linux Lite forums at the time. I just happened to be looking at Distrowatch a couple of days ago and was surprised to see v2.4 on there and promptly downloaded the 32bit version and installed it on the same spare drive.
I can now boot and use the distro but I wouldn't go so far as to say it's stable. I had a kernel panic last night when it crashed out of YouTube and dropped to a text shell. I had to REISUB out as I couldn't find any way to exit from the shell. Also when I want to log off it seems to become very very laggy and more often than not I have to REISUB to shutdown or restart.
I do like the distro, it being very similar in a lot of ways to Peppermint. I hope I can work through the niggles as I'm sure that's all they are and get to the point where it becomes easier to use.
Thanks to all for what promises to be a good experience,
Regards,
Dave.
I've been a Linux user for some years having ditched Windows a long long time ago. I'm not a Linux pro by any means though and still consider myself a numpty! ;D My main distro has been Peppermint Linux in various incarnations for some years now but I tried Linux Lite 2.1 last year on a spare drive after seeing it on a magazine disc. I liked it but I couldn't get it to run coming up with a boot error which was documented on the Linux Lite forums at the time. I just happened to be looking at Distrowatch a couple of days ago and was surprised to see v2.4 on there and promptly downloaded the 32bit version and installed it on the same spare drive.
I can now boot and use the distro but I wouldn't go so far as to say it's stable. I had a kernel panic last night when it crashed out of YouTube and dropped to a text shell. I had to REISUB out as I couldn't find any way to exit from the shell. Also when I want to log off it seems to become very very laggy and more often than not I have to REISUB to shutdown or restart.
I do like the distro, it being very similar in a lot of ways to Peppermint. I hope I can work through the niggles as I'm sure that's all they are and get to the point where it becomes easier to use.
Thanks to all for what promises to be a good experience,
Regards,
Dave.
Dave.