New guy who's made the permanent switch.

[regularfella]

Hi, I'm regularfella, aka Lance.

No more distro hopping for me. This is what I've been looking for. I've installed Linux Lite 2.0 on my Acer Aspire 1410. It has a Core 2 Solo and 3gb ram, 250gb hdd.

Everything worked out of the box. My favorite apps were a breeze to install and this distro runs great on this machine. The screen is broken so I've hooked it up to a 1600x900 monitor and even that was detected and ready to go out of the box. Now it serves as a desktop PC with my wireless mouse and keyboard combo.



I first installed the 32 bit version, but now I have the 64 bit version installed. For some reason the machine seems to run faster on x64.

Love the GUI, Love the simplicity. I'll be sticking with Linux Lite for a long time to come.

[bitsnpcs]

Hello Lance,

Welcome to the community

[suburbandisposal]

Not to steal thunder but another new guy here with nearly identical specs on my HP compaq presario as well as a broken screen. Small world. First distro though, still getting the hang of it :-[

[rokytnji]

Howdy and Welcome.

[bitsnpcs]

Hello suburbandisposal,

Welcome to the forum 
LL 2.0 is my first distro too. 

[TMG1961]

welcome..also did some distro hopping here before settling down with LL2

[Wirezfree]

Welcome,

I also did some distro hopping, Fedora, CentOS, Mint, Puppy and was on Zorin for a couple of months.
Then I tried LL, and what swung it for me was actually the Forum, it was the participation and help
provided from other users and the active participation of the dev's.

Dave

[N4RPS]

Hello!

Welcome to Linux Liote!

Replacement screens cost a lot less now that they once did. A bill ($100) or less buys one, but will require a fair amount of disassembly to change. As far as disassembly goes, YouTube can help with that...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

[Teddy]

Welcome to the Linux Lite community! Glad to see that you found Linux Lite as your distro hopping antidote!