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  • Hello all. Been using LXLE for a week now and love it.  I've used it to bring an old HP mini compaq netbook to life.  I tried mint and ubuntu first, and wifi didnt work.  Other distros were too slow or too minimalistic.  LXLE is stable and fast, yet seemingly can do anything!  I'm delighted

  • ZakaZaka
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    Welcome !
  • JadedJaded
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    Hello from Alabama /US.  I'm a newb to linux.  It all started with XP no longer being supported.  So I tried Mint,  it crashed out of the gate (video card issue) .  Been on LXLE for 4 days now,  and  so far I'm impressed.  Install and update was painless.  I've had this desktop since '03 thanks for keeping it rolling.  Hopefully I'll learn linux as I had windows.  
  • JesseBanksJesseBanks
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    Hello Everyone from New Jersey...Been using linux for the past 5 years because of economical reasons and I am also a big promoter of the OS...I have installed linux for many family members who could not afford or replace their desktops/Laptops...I try to learn as much as I can...I love LXLE been running it for a week...I have used so many distributions but this one is so great that I had to register to learn more !!!  :-bd
    Thanked by 1lxle
  • JakobJakob
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    Greetings to you all from Copenhagen, Denmark :)
    I just tried Lxle a little bit for a few days now and that has been a great joy.
    On my primary laptop I have Windows 7 and it pretty much works for me - for now. I bought my laptop some years ago and Windows was pre-installed and I have been a Windows user for many years now both privately and at work - with a few shorter periods long time ago using Mac-laptops at schools where that was what they had.
    But over the last years I have become more and more interested in Gnu+Linux. I am very certain that free/libre software is the future. And that goes for free hardware and all round intellectual freedom too (I am not sure that the term "intellectual freedom" is the common term because I have not seen anyone use it in the sense I mean - but I just use it as meaning the opposite of "intellectual property"). And I don't just think that it is the future because it will be so - I mean that it will be the best future ... or the best present - as it will be the present ... in the future :D
    Anyway I was delighted to meet Lxle. I installed 14.04.1 on my old desktop pc (AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ / 1000 MHz / 1 GB ram / ATA SAMSUNG HD160JJ / Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 / Samsung SyncMaster 913N) just to try it out. I find it very beautiful and well-designed and working smoothly - and the wi-fi just worked out-of-the-box!!
    There is/was one problem: The screen goes bad (Suddenly showing image of a few pixels repeated to full screen and freezes on that) but Lubuntu did the same thing - which was the reason I tried Lxle - so lucky me :D
    Maybe I do not need to troubleshoot that as I will install the new version anyway - so maybe the problem will go away that way.
    I have one question: Should I install the new 64 or 32 bit version?
  • lxlelxle
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    If your machine supports 64 go with 64 is usually a safe rule of thumb.
  • JakobJakob
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    Thanks.
    The problem seems to be gone. I installed 14.04.2 and it crashed the same way a couple of times to begin with - but it seems to have stopped doing that now. Maybe updating and rebooting did it. If the problem is there again I might report it in a new thread.
    I'm so pleased that I had this problem in Lubuntu also - or I would not have tried Lxle. I have tried more than a couple of distros over the last few years - most of them pretty great - but this one is by far the best I have tried on my old pc which have now arisen from a box in the basement to a new life in my living room ... But I see that there is a category for feedback, so I will continue my praise there later :D Cheers.
  • NixcatNixcat
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    Hello, been a linux user for a while love, less resource hungry distro this is. trying to get away completely from window. love video game,programming,art,music and linux
  • Hello!
    I installed the new LXLE LanShop 32bit based on 12.04. a couple of days before on my "thin-client-turned-into-standalone-PC" with Via 1GHz CPU, VX800 board, 3GB RAM, 32GB SSD. It is very quiet, the fan can only run on lowest speed, light, low energy consumption, not really capable of playing videos but LibreOffice and Internet browsing work just fine. I struggled to find a distro which would work on this machine. It has a GPU Via Chrome9 HC which is very badly supported in Linux. Manjaro and Bridge Linux work only with vesa driver and resolution of 1024x768, current Ubuntu based distros as well, while the monitor is capable of 1366x768. Initially I found out the the most recent non-free driver was for Ubuntu 12.10. and 12.04. so I looked for lightweight distros based on Ubuntu 12.04. which are actively maintained. I was happy when LXLE was installed and eventually showed me how the desktop looks in 1366x768! Encouraged by success I tried to compile the proprietary driver but failed. Maybe some one on this forum could help me with it.
    I have a year of Linux experience with Manjaro and it is installed on my other PC (a small Lenovo Thinkcentre). I like to tinker with Linux, change some individual icons, move the panel to the left side and create a big button to close the current window (a feature of Manjaro Netbook edition), - I'll post a screenshot of my desktop in the dedicated thread - install the OS compressed on btrfs, make snapshots with btrfs, make a script to put the browser cache and profile to RAM, etc... I like to post on forums, you can find my posts on Manjaro forum, here for example: https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=24872.15
    So I'm looking forward to post here on LXLE forum, too. I'm not an expert, but eager to help, with btrfs for example.
    Have a nice day!
  • Hi LXLE users,

    I'm anton 31 years old and for over 20 years computer experience.
    On my tenth I started with windows 95, followd by 98, 2000, me, xp, vista, 7, 8, 10.
    In the time of windows xp, I started experimenting with linux,
    I was a really big fan of Mandrake(mandrivia), later I looked at fedora core, redhad, ubuntu, mint, and my favorite of all time is Puppy linux 4.1, which I still have on ubs for emergency and
    now so LXLE it suits me very very well and it works fine.
    In about 1.5 years I can start training for Linux specialist and comptia+ and networking and programming and then maybe create my own linux or unix derivation