08-07-2020, 05:59 PM
Thanks for your considered response. It has given me the encouragement to continue. Not very encouraging to find the writers of the OS get something like that wrong.
I've used Linux in the past and a couple of other OSs. Since the advent of modern PCs of course, it has mainly been an alternative to Windows, which, let's face it, has ticked all the boxes. The manual for Linux Lite seems to confirm this.
My PC's PSU decided to take up smoking recently so was out of commission for a time. A new PSU wasn't cheap! The Linux PC was so slow, I really need something a little better designed.
The biggest problem these days seem to be most OSs are so filled with bloat, they slow down all but the fastest, machines. Back in the days of FORTH of course, you could easily dump what wasn't needed. Now it's hit and miss, especially since so many programs seem to rely upon so many others to function.
Hoping Lite will let the old PC run a bit closer to what it was designed to do.
I'll try a few more key presses. The manual no-doubt exists somewhere, since I rarely throw books away. But that's an adventure for a different universe.
I have contacted Novatech, from whom I bought the PC. Alas, no response as yet. (And I remember when they were just a room in the back of someone's house. Now they seem to busy for anything!!)
I was hoping someone on here could suggest a file, possibly in the BOOT directory, which I could double click.
I've used Linux in the past and a couple of other OSs. Since the advent of modern PCs of course, it has mainly been an alternative to Windows, which, let's face it, has ticked all the boxes. The manual for Linux Lite seems to confirm this.
My PC's PSU decided to take up smoking recently so was out of commission for a time. A new PSU wasn't cheap! The Linux PC was so slow, I really need something a little better designed.
The biggest problem these days seem to be most OSs are so filled with bloat, they slow down all but the fastest, machines. Back in the days of FORTH of course, you could easily dump what wasn't needed. Now it's hit and miss, especially since so many programs seem to rely upon so many others to function.
Hoping Lite will let the old PC run a bit closer to what it was designed to do.
I'll try a few more key presses. The manual no-doubt exists somewhere, since I rarely throw books away. But that's an adventure for a different universe.
I have contacted Novatech, from whom I bought the PC. Alas, no response as yet. (And I remember when they were just a room in the back of someone's house. Now they seem to busy for anything!!)
I was hoping someone on here could suggest a file, possibly in the BOOT directory, which I could double click.