09-17-2020, 05:49 AM
Thanks Moltke and Richard P - All gifts gratefully received!
I did warn you that I was pretty stupid and I'm pleased you've been able to ascertain that I was telling the truth. I have no idea how I got the impression that I needed the 18.04 compatible version and I'll be trying the 20.04 one soonest.
Bringing the system up to date of course makes perfect sense and I'll make that my first step. Re Megasync: I've been using it (alongside Dropbox) for several years and find the 50gb free capacity makes it a practical default option for cloud storage, whereas I only use DB when one of my contacts doesn't use Mega.
As I've only previously used Ubuntu 16.04 that's my benchmark and tbh I found it pretty "Idiot Ready" and have had zero probs in 4000+ hours. I was looking for a lighter distro that I could easily install (with spare room) on my onboard mSSD in order to be able to run separate physical drives for my dual-boot setup plus storage drive. This is is already sort of working* but I admit to being a tad concerned as to how many more brain cells might be needed to get LL to the same utility point that I had Ubuntu....
Anyway, thanks again. I'll follow up shortly.
*in the meantime, I discovered that I could install 16gb RAM instead of the 8gb officially prescribed by Lenovo.
I did warn you that I was pretty stupid and I'm pleased you've been able to ascertain that I was telling the truth. I have no idea how I got the impression that I needed the 18.04 compatible version and I'll be trying the 20.04 one soonest.
Bringing the system up to date of course makes perfect sense and I'll make that my first step. Re Megasync: I've been using it (alongside Dropbox) for several years and find the 50gb free capacity makes it a practical default option for cloud storage, whereas I only use DB when one of my contacts doesn't use Mega.
As I've only previously used Ubuntu 16.04 that's my benchmark and tbh I found it pretty "Idiot Ready" and have had zero probs in 4000+ hours. I was looking for a lighter distro that I could easily install (with spare room) on my onboard mSSD in order to be able to run separate physical drives for my dual-boot setup plus storage drive. This is is already sort of working* but I admit to being a tad concerned as to how many more brain cells might be needed to get LL to the same utility point that I had Ubuntu....
Anyway, thanks again. I'll follow up shortly.
*in the meantime, I discovered that I could install 16gb RAM instead of the 8gb officially prescribed by Lenovo.