08-02-2014, 07:29 AM
Many thanks Valtam and Gold Finger for both feedbacks - really helpful.
Valtam, I think your identification of Windows-users-in-transition as the target audience for LL (e.g. people like me!) is a an excellent aim. My opinion is that those distros that try to satisfy both camps (i.e. both linux-competent & linux-newbie) risk being a bit too 'high-brow' for some of us beginners (me included), especially those without any programming background. Thankyou also for the link for continued LL 1.0.8 support and the upgrade. Does the upgrade change the appearance or layout of 1.0.8 in any way?
Thankyou Gold Finger, for the instructions on how to dual boot LL 2.0 with another distro. Is it true that, in general, it's inadvisable to have a shared /home partition between the two distros (even if both based on the same release of Ubuntu e.g. 14.04), as the distros may interfere with each other via home with ugrades/updates etc?
Kind regards
Mike
Valtam, I think your identification of Windows-users-in-transition as the target audience for LL (e.g. people like me!) is a an excellent aim. My opinion is that those distros that try to satisfy both camps (i.e. both linux-competent & linux-newbie) risk being a bit too 'high-brow' for some of us beginners (me included), especially those without any programming background. Thankyou also for the link for continued LL 1.0.8 support and the upgrade. Does the upgrade change the appearance or layout of 1.0.8 in any way?
Thankyou Gold Finger, for the instructions on how to dual boot LL 2.0 with another distro. Is it true that, in general, it's inadvisable to have a shared /home partition between the two distros (even if both based on the same release of Ubuntu e.g. 14.04), as the distros may interfere with each other via home with ugrades/updates etc?
Kind regards
Mike
64bit OS (32-bit on Samsung[i] netbook) installed in [i]Legacy mode on MBR-formatted SSDs (except pi which uses a micro SDHC card):
2017 - Raspberry pi 3B (4cores) ~ [email protected] - LibreElec, used for upgrading our Samsung TV (excellent for the task)
2012 - Lenovo G580 2689 (2cores; 4threads] ~ [email protected] - LL3.8/Win8.1 dual-boot (LL working smoothly)
2011 - Samsung NP-N145 Plus (1core; 2threads) ~ Intel Atom [email protected] - LL 3.8 32-bit (64-bit too 'laggy')
2008 - Asus X71Q (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6/Win8.1 dual-boot, LL works fine with kernel 4.15
2007 - Dell Latitude D630 (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6, works well with kernel 4.4; 4.15 doesn't work
2017 - Raspberry pi 3B (4cores) ~ [email protected] - LibreElec, used for upgrading our Samsung TV (excellent for the task)
2012 - Lenovo G580 2689 (2cores; 4threads] ~ [email protected] - LL3.8/Win8.1 dual-boot (LL working smoothly)
2011 - Samsung NP-N145 Plus (1core; 2threads) ~ Intel Atom [email protected] - LL 3.8 32-bit (64-bit too 'laggy')
2008 - Asus X71Q (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6/Win8.1 dual-boot, LL works fine with kernel 4.15
2007 - Dell Latitude D630 (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6, works well with kernel 4.4; 4.15 doesn't work