I’ve been playing around with Linux over the last few years, mainly as a hobby. I love all kinds of technology and enjoy learning new ideas. I’ve tried many different distros over the last few years and I’m currently running dual boot Ubuntu/Windows 10 on my newer laptop, and dual boot LXLE/antiX set up on my older HP/Compaq C500 (GF370AV) laptop.
The version of LXLE that I’m currently running is 32 bit 16.04.1 Eclectica release and it’s working great on this old machine.
I can tell that the developers have spent a great deal of time and energy making this distro, and I greatly appreciate all of the hard work that has went into it. I’m looking forward to continuing to use it and hope to be able to make some small positive contributions to the LXLE community.
I'm currently testing my fresh install of LXLE on an old, small laptop and I must say, I'm impressed! I used to have Fedora on it with a home made environment I built over Openbox but since I don't use this machine for work anymore I figured I'd use it to test the distro before installing on the hubby's netbook.
It's really nice, not slow at all, and I quite like the idea that lightweight and minimalist don't necessarily have to go hand in hand. Great job guys! :) It'll be perfect for him!
Hello from Ruhr valley, Germany, on distrowatch.com I found LXLE as the #17-distro and suitable for old computers. In fact my Pentium D codenamed Smithfield is not really old. Anyway it was correctly recognized by the OS.
But unfortunately LXLE seems to buggy at other criteria. So it seems impossible to set the desired lang-code. Another problem is to find a good mirror. Further ntp doesn't work as it should. Also OpenGL is shown as unknown.
So still there a lot of work until I feel thrilled with LXLE.
opengl showing as unknown in system profiler means nothing. System profiler does the best it can identifying but it's not flawless. A good mirror is a sourceforge problem. Languages for some people need to have locales reinstalled as some languages not needed during build were removed to save space in the final ISO.
Open a Terminal
sudo locale-gen
then
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
I wouldn't call it 'a lot' of work, I'd call it 'adjusting' something that was free.
To type sudo locale-gen is no problem. But first there was to install the lang-support with apt. And in the beginning the answer was, the needed packages were unavailable.
And with dpkg-reconfigure locales the terminal badly crashes. I think the LXLE-distro should take non-English languages more serious. They don't need much space so they should remain on the final ISO.
Rank Language native other total 1 Mandarin Chinese 900 million 410 million 1.31 billion 2 English 339 million 603 million 942 million 3 Spanish 472 million 94 million 570 million 4 Arabic 295 million 90 million 385 million 5 Hindi 260 million 120 million 380 million 6 Russian 150 million 110 million 260 million 7 Bengali 240 million 19 million 259 million 8 Portuguese 215 million 35 million 250 million 9 Malay 77 million 173 million 250 million 10 French 80 million 140 million 220 million 11 German 95 million 115 million 210 million 12 Urdu 68 million 94 million 162 million 13 Punjabi 146 million ? 146 million 14 Japanese 130 million 0.0115 million 130 million 15 Persian (Farsi) 60 million 50 million 110 million 16 Swahili 16 million 82 million 98 million 17 Tamil 80 million 12 million 92 million 18 Italian 65 million 20 million 85 million 19 Javanese 84 million ? 84 million 20 Telugu 75 million 6 million 81 million 21 Korean 77 million ? 77 million 22 Wu Chinese 77 million 77 million 23 Marathi 72 million 3 million 75 million 24 Turkish 71 million 0.3 million 71 million 25 Vietnamese 78 million ? 78 million 26 Yue Chinese 62 million ? 62 million
In other distributions this seems to be no problem. I think Mandarin, Spanish and Arabic comes on the ISO.
Mandarin for speeches with special input method.
Spanish for a Latin language with more native speakers than english.
Arabic for a speech with right to left-direction.
For the others of the 26 most important languages there have to be tested and maintained repositories. Since LXLE claims to be for old computers it should have in mind who uses old computers. That are less developed countries or rural areas, were people can't afford or have no access to cutting-edge gadgets.
Since Windows 10 I try to give some old machines a second live. But for productive use language support is absolute mandatory.
ya, but lets be honest, there are plenty of distributions that specialize in certain languages only, the iso is slimmed where it could be in order to provide such a complete out of the box experience in a relatively small iso file size.