Weeeell, things took a surprising turn. The Lenovo 330 ideapad was a failure. It would run OK for about 24-hours after a clean install, then the next day, it would fail to boot. (See LL 6.6 runs OK after clean install, but crashes after about 24-hours.
But when it did run, it was just as bad as the Dell! It now has Windows 10 back on it and is serving as a controller for a bunch of printers.
I resurrected the Dell and it was getting reeeeal slow. Then programmes, such as Chromium and OpenOffice were not opening. Aisleriot and Mines were OK, but I can't surf the net or write notes with them.
I went to move some files from a USB-stick to the laptop, not even big ones, less than a Meg. Could do it due to lack of space. That raised an eyebrow. I checked: sure enough, the file manager was showing 234,6 GB of 234,6 GB was used!
I had installed a few games and other programmes that I hardly or even never used, so I tried to use Synaptic, then apt-get to remove them. I first tried WINE, but it would happen, as there was not enough space. I removed some others first, which freed up space, then moved onto getting rid of WINE.
Also I ditched a few Gigs worth of personal files I have backed up elsewhere. In the end, I cleared out just over 60 GB of junk.
Now the old Dell runs uite nicely - OK, it's not a lean, mean, gaming machine, but it is no longer frustratingly slow.
Problem solved ;D :045:
But when it did run, it was just as bad as the Dell! It now has Windows 10 back on it and is serving as a controller for a bunch of printers.
I resurrected the Dell and it was getting reeeeal slow. Then programmes, such as Chromium and OpenOffice were not opening. Aisleriot and Mines were OK, but I can't surf the net or write notes with them.
I went to move some files from a USB-stick to the laptop, not even big ones, less than a Meg. Could do it due to lack of space. That raised an eyebrow. I checked: sure enough, the file manager was showing 234,6 GB of 234,6 GB was used!
I had installed a few games and other programmes that I hardly or even never used, so I tried to use Synaptic, then apt-get to remove them. I first tried WINE, but it would happen, as there was not enough space. I removed some others first, which freed up space, then moved onto getting rid of WINE.
Also I ditched a few Gigs worth of personal files I have backed up elsewhere. In the end, I cleared out just over 60 GB of junk.
Now the old Dell runs uite nicely - OK, it's not a lean, mean, gaming machine, but it is no longer frustratingly slow.
Problem solved ;D :045: