I want to share with you the experience I have had with Lubuntu 14.04 on an old computer that I have at home. These are its specifications:
- CPU: Intel Celeron Dual Core 1.7GHz
- GPU: I have no idea, sorry
- HDD: 80 GB
- Brand: Olivetti
- Model: I have no idea, sorry
- RAM: MB 1024
I suppose that more than one will think that it is not such a bad machine, but it must be added that the hard disk is literally a pigsty. It is very worn and that makes it very slow compared to other systems that I have tested. In fact, I have compared this machine with a Netbook with 2 GB Ram, Dual Core 1,6 GHZ Atom and a 250 GB hard disk and the difference is very big. The other machine happens to have a very good quality hard drive.
Narrating what happened
Many months ago, I was a linuxer to die for. This machine had crunchbang, the best operating system ever installed on your poor hard drive. But everything changed when I bought a new computer that had Windows 8 pre-installed. I thought "As soon as I have it, I install Ubuntu" but after using it I was very surprised by the great performance it had. That is, the computer had very good specifications, but with that Windows the machine flew.
Since then I had become a total Windosero. I bought a Nokia Lumia 520, installed Windows 8.1 in the aforementioned Netbook (which by the way works like a heart attack), I used almost all Microsoft services and, as you can imagine, I also installed Windows in this Notebook.
At first the truth is that it worked well, but I have noticed that the system was running slower and slower. Couldn't have more than one tab in Explorer or another browser without crashing. If I did not use the Explorer, the YouTube videos were slow and the truth is that it only served me to play Counter Strike 1.6.
So I got tired of the performance it had and decided to install Lubuntu. I was going to install crunchbang but it did not fit on a CD and I wanted a more familiar interface, because due to a long history (which has nothing to do with the operation of Windows 8, it has always worked perfectly on that machine) I had to install Windows 7, and I wanted something that is not so complicated to handle.
My analysis
- Installation: Everything was very simple, it let me install Flash and the audio codecs and it didn't take long to actually install. Of course, when it is used from a CD the system is noticeably slower, but it is normal ...
- Post-installation: The first thing I did was check if the Flash worked, so I went to YouTube, I put the first video I saw on the cover (One of the Rubius for the curious) and voilà, it was playing without any problem and with good performance. Then I checked if I could play it in HD and I got it, no lag or weird stuff. I was quite impressed, honestly.
- Interface: The weakest point in my opinion. The interface is simple and easy to understand, but I think the default theme is very ugly. This has not much to do with keeping the system light, Crunchbang, for example, was a system with a more difficult but much more modern interface. What I did was »tune it» a bit to make it more like Windows 7. I have done this without programs, proof that the developers could have made a more beautiful interface. Honestly I really liked the result, nothing comparable to Ubuntu, Elementary OS or Windows, but I think yes at the level of for example XFCE or even KDE. By the way, do not criticize me for putting the large panel 🙁
- Web navegation: Pretty good, Firefox works splendidly on Lubuntu. I am able to have multiple tabs open without any issues or slowdowns. The flash works great too.
- Playing music and video: Lubuntu comes with Audacious as the default player. The first time I opened it, I didn't like the interface very much, but then I discovered that I could display the player in the style of a GTK app. Now the truth is the result is very beautiful and minimalist, and the MP3 has been reproduced perfectly. The only thing I did not like is that it did not have predefined settings in the equalizer. As for video I have not tried it but I must assume that there is no problem either.
- Office Applications: It comes by default with Abiword, a text editor with a very good interface but I don't like the zoom that the text editor has so much since it doesn't adapt well to the middle of the screen, besides lacking many options. In its replacement, I installed LibreOffice and it works great, for simple documents it is luxurious.
- Application installation: Well, in Lubuntu I have only installed 2 apps: LibreOffice y Skype or Whatsapp. The first one installed without any problem. With Skype when I looked for it in the software center I could not find it, something that surprised me a bit. Then I looked it up on the internet and installed the package. In the middle of the installation it asked me to put a command in the terminal to be able to finish the process. This displeased me a lot, not because I did not know how to do it, but because it should be something easier and I should not need to use the terminal for something silly like having Skype. I did it anyway, and Skype runs smoothly, well apart from the awful Linux interface it has. Clarify that only Lubuntu has this problem; In Ubuntu, Skype does appear in the software center, perhaps because they use different programs for the app store.
- Small details: Well, there are a few things that I particularly liked. The first is to be able to scroll with the touchpad. This is done by all known desktop operating systems except Windows. In Windows this only works on certain models, and in a somewhat mediocre way, I have tested it on another computer with this feature and in web browsing it leaves much to be desired. Here it is very fluid and with a very good response. The second is the font smoothing that Linux has, which destroys Windows without thinking. And finally, how easy it is to use a Linux machine. Honestly, I have had less work configuring Linux than configuring Windows, the drivers have been recognized automatically and, without being an expert, it has been easier for me to configure Linux than Windows. Of course, when you want to do something more complex, such as emulating Windows programs or even running a Steam game, it is much more complicated, but in the future I think this will be solved.
Conclusion: Lubuntu 14.04 it is a very solid and functional operating system. Although it is by default quite ugly and has all the defects that Linux has for a medium-basic use, it is very effective. It consumes few resources, has a really good out-of-the-box experience, has a lot of useful software installed, and it feels like a very stable system, with no hang-ups or weird stuff.
For various reasons, which I will not say to avoid problems in the post, I prefer Windows, but in computers that have less than 1 Gb of RAM I think that Lubuntu or other light distros are a great option, which should be taken more seriously by various governments.
Well, I have to say that Skype IS found in the Lubuntu repositories.
Just go to Synaptic -> Settings -> Repositories -> Other software -> and mark the repositories "Canonical Partners" and "Independent". And then, in the Updates tab, you have to activate the "trusty-proposed" and the "trusty-backsports" (which I think are not activated by default). When updating the repositories, you will see that then the Skype package does appear.
But yes, the version that is available for Linux on the official Skype website is a little more recent than the one in the repos.
Thank you!!!
You must die slowly Windowsero, this is a blog about Linux xD
Pst: I comment from Windows because it is the work machine.
Hahahahahahahahaha nothing! you gave yourself away
P.S. It is also the work machine: B
Hahaha. The same thing happened to me commenting on ubuntuperonista from a windows phone.
Lubuntu is a great distro for old PCs or with few hardware resources, I install them to friends who want to revive their old jars and it is luxurious. On the other hand, I don't give a damn if you come from windows or mac, the important thing is that you are testing gnu / linux and if you like it then stay.
The Taliban mania of some commentators on the blog do not take them into account.
Greetings @Patron and enjoy Lubuntu or any other distro.
Completely agree, panchomora
Hello, I installed it on the notebook and I had a problem with the wifi that I could not connect, did it happen to anyone?
It happened to me, Emiliano. I tried several options, but it does not enable wifi.
The same thing happened to me with the b43 ... and the other problem I had was that caliber does not work in lxde, I had no idea ... ... That is where my adventure with Lubuntu ended.
I hope this solves it for you. It works for me. http://trastetes.blogspot.com.es/2014/05/wifi-en-lubuntu-1404lts.html
If miguel that is the answer to me, the same thing happened to me a long time ago and well that was the solution to that discomfort of manually placing the wifi
Unlike your assessment, I quite like the default interface of Lubuntu, what I did not like at all was the screenshot that you put>: D with the apologies of the case.
hehe same ...
It is very good that you have compared that after using a win time, it is not stable, my distro works the same as the first day I installed it; I do not understand the worn out hard disk, it sounds more like the 1024 MB more memory than the notebook has, against which you compare, not so much the quality of the disk, I think you would not even feel it in normal use. And as they say above, if you like to stay with a linux, you will not regret it.
regards
Ah, another thing I wanted to say, Skype is that ugly (and it is not in the repos), because the company does not release the code and does not release updates as it does with win, surely company policy.
regards
Actually, that is not really the problem, I have had Windows for some time and if you take good care of it, it works very well, the problem is if the computer has a very worn out hard disk, that makes it endure worse over time.
Although it is true that Linux withstands the passage of time better than Windows, although in the end it all depends on how the user uses it….
I am very surprised, I thought they were not going to publish my post because my text was very badly positioned, but they not only fixed that problem but now they organized my post much better and it looks very professional.
I am also reading the comments and the truth is that they are very open-minded, it is a great joy that they do not behave like Taliban.
On the main machine I will continue to use Windows although I may test Ubuntu 14.04 ...
The important thing is that you have not had to throw away the PC because you have given it a second life, it does not matter if you use Windows, Mac or GNU / Linux
Oh by the way, I was able to install Counter Strike 1.6 on this machine, it goes surprisingly well, I would even dare to say better than Windows 8.1. With both systems I sometimes have slowdowns, a proof that my computer is a pigsty, but I can play it at a rate of 2 FPS with very little dips at 60 and at full resolution.
I have a neetbok Acer Aspire One O725. The problem I have with Lubuntu arose in this version 14.04 and is that during the installation, the proprietary wifi driver (broadcom 4313) cannot be installed. You have to navigate through many places trying certain forms and this is the date and I have not been able to do it. This version had jacker.deb removed, replacing it with ubuntu commo (or something like that). And that caused the removal of the Wi-Fi Driver. I even tried the suggestion for that problem on this page and it didn't work. Unfortunately, I have to install version 13.04, which is the one I use.
What a shit mate, I am very surprised with your problem, the computer on which I am narrating these lines is not from a well-known brand and has recognized all the drivers.
Try another distribution, I recommend Crunchbang.
Oh by the way, I have Counter Strike 1.6 open while I'm writing these lines, no slowdown, I am surprised ...
Thank you
Broadcom is a problem in any distro, but Ubuntu just does include the 43XX driver, I have a 4312 and only Ubuntu has recognized it by default. If you want to stay with Lubuntu you must install the driver manually, I think you have 3 options, the STA driver, the b43 or the BCMAC, it depends on your card, you can review the steps to follow here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx
Thanks warheart. I have tried a thousand ways and it has not worked.
Try this:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall bcmwl-kernel-source
For this you must have it at least connected via ethernet
Hi. Did you try the Lubuntu forum? here is a thread where it seems they have the solution. Patience, which is long and is in English:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2220830
Hello to me the same thing happened to the wifi with ubuntu and lubuntu but I solved it by downloading the broadcom drivers in .deb from there I passed them with a usb and installed them by double clicking, after that even if you do not believe it you have to restart it Because if not, the driver will never recognize you, then when it restarts, a message that says there are nearby networks
Where can I download that walpapper?
I found it on a page called Artescritorio, here I will upload it to OneDrive in 1080p quality
https://e6j8yg.bn1301.livefilestore.com/y2pYjb-I-THTLwqTi-3iIIBCg-abs0wTvpNedLz7psAQl8tBO5qkHtwURo3dvg9AR7obzgebugKUnbhaUlNgMfw2NPJ9ulH_TeUr0fSToFOqi8/4WW-NYC-1920X1200-1610.jpg
Then you give me a photo of how your desktop looked with that wallpaper!
Offtopic: In firefox I see that the link of the image of the previous comment exceeds the container of the comment. A "word-wrap: break-word;" in the CSS style of the class ".comment-body .comment-meta {}" fix the problem 😉
The same thing happens in Google Chrome.
One question, I have a P4 with 1gb of RAM, 256 non-integrated video Nvidia (PCI or AGP I don't remember), 300gb of HD, the detail is that I use Ubuntu and the truth is I am somewhat lazy to reinstall (some time ago I lost the illusion of testing distros and I'm already a bit old for that), but in this jar I notice a very poor performance (generally it is the processor that is always at full throttle, especially if you open the Internet or download even videos they go with terrible performance, the memory management in use is rather perfect according to the System Monitor)
I have read Lubuntu wonders on old jars like mine but will it be worth losing my current setup? I wanted to try Elementary OS "Luna", as the Live CD behaved well, but I imagine it is a misleading environment to test the distro, or would you recommend a more minimalist distro like Puppy, DSL, Vector or CrunchBang? From Vector I read that it is optimized for old Pentium .... Greetings
Have you seen anything about Manjaro? It is based on Arch, but tuned and I have tested it on old PC's where it works very well. They also have a version for netbooks with Gma500 / 3600 graphics using a minimalist desktop that works well on small screens. In addition, Arch's extensive documentation (the best organized of all) helps you. Dare to try a liveCD ...
Thanks to both of you (Pedro and Peter), I encouraged myself with Lubuntu and the processor "peaks" dropped a lot and it lets me do a bit more on it, and the advantage is that I have my favorite programs at hand. Luna really didn't behave stable on this computer, neither did Vector, which I found incredible. I promise to test your recommendations, I use Linux since 1998, I am not a crack and the truth has never happened to me, only now that my old PC no longer runs these modern systems very well, but I refuse to stop using Linux for those little ones details I know that my PC still has utility for a while longer.
In the style of Crunchbang (based on Debian and with Openbox), I recommend one that has captivated me: Semplice Linux: https://www.google.es/search?q=semplice+linux&client=ubuntu&hs=fPh&channel=fs&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Yw5kU_e9IMmP0AWF5oHIAw&ved=0CEUQsAQ
Although it is based on Debian Unstable, it is not at all "unstable". If not, Lubuntu is a safe bet, and if you google a little you will find a way to make it much more beautiful.
Well, yes, you're right, Lubuntu is aesthetically horrible, and the truth is that I really like LXDE vanilla, I don't know why Lubuntu insists on making it look ugly.
One of the problems of a new PC or laptop that comes with Windows pre-installed (any version is the most recent) is all the bloatware that comes from the factory and that is installed not by Microsoft but by the company / brand of the laptop (Sony, Toshiba, Acer , etc), over time this is what degrades performance because all that generally runs in the background consuming resources in an incredible way. By law, when I buy a new laptop that has Windows (which is not very often) I reinstall the system with a clean Windows image, and as now the original key comes in UEFI on these new computers because it is originally auto-activated (before the key it came on a sticker).
It happened to me with a new computer that I bought 9 months ago with 6Gb of ram, 3Ghz Core i3.4 CPU and 600Gb of HDD, at the beginning everything was fine for 2 months, then the performance went through the floor and I say it literally because until To right-click on the desktop and exit the context menu, it took 3 or 4 seconds. What surprised me was that another 3-year-old PC with an AMD Athlon Dual Core 2.7 Ghz CPU with 4gb of ram and the same Windows ran twice or three times faster than the Core i3, the difference? The laptop I left with what came from the factory, the other PC had a clean Windows formatted without bloatware.
I have tried linux distros as well and since I have revived equipment that I had on one side, I have done it and look at them now they work great 🙂 On a PC from 10 years ago I have put the latest Xubuntu 14.04 and it runs fine. "My little dinosaur" has been revitalized (that's what I call that team hehehe).
Greetings.
I have it installed on a netbook and on my main PC with VirtualBox (to "test" the changes that I want to apply later to the netbook) and, really, very good, there are things that if you have to search on the Internet but Linux is well, it is to learn to do new things, or in another way.
PS: I also prefer Windows but, for a low-resource PC, Lubuntu may be the solution.
I love Lubuntu, it's fast and a nice interface, it could even survive with its default interface, I like it better than Unity.
(also commenting from work xD)
On my Mac Mini I have Snow Leopard, Mountain Lion, Windows and Lubuntu installed. And practically the only one I use is Lubuntu, tuned to my liking, although the aesthetics are somewhat subjective. Here you have a screenshot: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mqkdf3aPTnk/U2QdBNM-VRI/AAAAAAAAASc/6XeyU2BoaP4/s1600/mi_lubuntu.png
Snow Leopard and Mountain lion? Piola, did it cost you a lot to install them, right? it was worth it? I watched videos and I loved the os x interface
Two tips for Lubuntu:
1.- About the menus:
a) With ALACARTE (installable from the repos). Don't mess with other java-based editors. You're warned.
b) The menus are editable in two ways. Or with PCMANFM (yes, like that) going to where it says Applications on the left side. But they will have to open the file manager with sudo in order to reflect the changes.
2.- About the shortcuts:
Use OBKEY (https://code.google.com/p/obkey/) It is super easy to use and perfectly handles any combination of keys and even chains of events (if you are intrepid you can edit the xml where the shortcuts are by hand: p). To invoke it use / obkey /home//.config/openbox/lubuntu-rc.xml because by default it looks for rc.xml to dry.
Another tip:
In order for the power button to function as SUSPEND or HIBERNATE, you have to activate the xfce power manager (xfce4-power-manager). Although it is XFCE, it will work perfectly on Lubuntu. There is another way but it is by editing /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh and putting the desired command there. I recommend that you use the Power Manager.
In my opinion lubuntu is by far the best distro with lxde, I have it installed on a netbook with only 1gb of ram and it literally works excellent. The best of all is that I use it to connect it to the tv and play movies in full-hd 🙂
I don't presell, but I'm with Tanglu, and it seems like a very good distro.
Lubuntu always gave me errors, however, it is very fast, I installed it at a pentium 4 of that of 2.8ghz.
IS THERE ANY PLACE THAT TEACHES ME FROM SCRATCH TO INSTALL UBUNTU ON A PEN-DRIVE?
I CLARIFY THAT I TRY, BUT I CAN'T
I AM 75 YEARS OLD. WILL THAT BE THE CAUSE?
I HAVE A COMPAQ PRESARIO SG3310LA PC WITH 1GB RAM AND 160GB HARD DISK, WINDOSWS 7 ULTIMATE. . I WANT TO TRY LINUX TO SEE
Man, of course:
https://blog.desdelinux.net/?s=unetbootin
Age is not a problem to acquire knowledge, I assure you 😉
Let me congratulate you on that. As Elav says there is no age to learn. Welcome to Linux 😀
I learned with this tutorial, I hope it is useful to you.
http://www.taringa.net/posts/linux/12427823/YUMI-Creador-de-arranque-multiple-USB-Windows.html
I don't see the problem in having to use the terminal to install some program. Also Skype is available in a .deb on the official website. After a while I stopped using the Software Center to the point that I uninstalled it, the terminal is epic 😀
I'm already installing Debian with XFCE on PC's that are very low-resource (like my current Netbook), and the truth is that distros like Lubuntu are worth installing on PC's with these characteristics. With Debian, zero problems (even on netbooks despite holding up to Ubuntu with Unity).
And by the way, it's ironic, but Firefox on GNU / Linux is much more fluid for me than on Windows itself (it doesn't matter if it's the fork like Iceweasel or the same official binary offered by the Mozilla foundation itself).
What do you do with Windows? Eight? Didn't you love vista xd?
With all due respect, your review is very poor ... Maybe your writing style is in itself very ugly. I'm a regular blog reader and it's a humble opinion. The first minute of reading the post you see the contrast with the other entries. Again it is a humble opinion. Cheers
The story really seemed very interesting to me and I also have to say that the first distribution that I tried was lubuntu and as you didn't know if the videos in that distro looked good. Well, if they look great, use a player called vcl if I'm wrong.
I prefer Arch Linux + XFCE goes fancy. And you forget about the versions, here you are always up to date. Greetings to all.
Any distro with LXDE is a plane, I use kubuntu 14.04 on mine, it is so beautiful.
Greetings from. My Nokia lumia xdddd
I use it from my old Pentium IV, 2.66Ghz, 512 mb of RAM (the slot for the other card died), with S3 Unichrome pro IGP video onboard (the worst I've ever seen). After having some video problems in Debian and Linux Mint, I decided to forget XFCE for a moment and go to LXDE, more convenient for my limited hardware, and I was already getting along with Puppy.
I really liked its stability, and I only had problems setting the keyboard to Latin with accents where they should be, but it didn't take me long to figure out how either.
Just install LibreOffice for the ppt, and the classic lubuntu-restricted-extras.
And it works fluently even here.
Hello, yet another who fell into the trap of Windows 8 and its horrible interface. Also at the time I was fascinated, later I realized, when comparing my machine with that of a friend who had Windows 7, that even Windows 7 is capable of working better than 8, I say it is capable because first you have to deactivate the aero, which is what makes the biggest difference, already with the "windows basic" theme, windows 7 already consumes less than 8.
I tried to optimize both, removing and deactivating everything that did not serve me and I was not going to use, windows 7 fared better with a consumption, only of the operating system of 400 mb, while w8 was at 500 mb. It is not a big difference for a large computer, but I have a netbook, with similar specifications to your machine, maybe a little better.
To conclude, I even opened some things faster in windows 7 than 8, not to mention that I do not have that modern ui interface. Anyway, I still prefer GNU / Linux, and among all the Fedora distributions, simply the best there is.
Your story caught my attention because until two weeks ago I didn't know anything about Linux, but with Windows XP losing support, some work machines were giving problems, so I decided to format them and install a Linux distribution, and I chose Lubuntu precisely because everywhere they commented that it was a great option for old machines. Now there is no major problem because this distribution is going great, my only real problem is making the staff forget Microsoft Office and do their work with LibreOffice.
QUIET FRIEND THAT WITH THE WINE PROGRAM YOU CAN EMULATE THE WINDOWS PROGRAMS SUCH AS THE MICROSOFT OFFICE, AND USE IT WITHOUT PROBLEMS, SO I DO WITH THE OFFICE 2007 AND EXCELLENT.
Thanks for the Review, very nice.
I also tried it with a similar pc but with 512 RAM, it seems to me that it is ideal for pcs that are considered obsolete by proprietary operating systems.
Regarding whether it is ugly, it is al pepe, you said it, "tune", the first thing a GNu / Linux user does, if I'm not mistaken, is to start customizing, nothing remains as they come by default.
For those who tried and did not have wifi, do not install without first trying everything, that's what the live cd is for.
Hello all the community. I have an Asus netbook with Atom N570 Dual-Core and 2GB of ram. I've been using Lubuntu for a long time since version 12.10 and whenever a new distro comes out I update it. It should be noted that I have Lubuntu installed within Windows, it is not a virtual machine, it is the classic Wubi installation. Well, the problem is that in 14.04 when the system starts for the first time it starts to get messages from the root unit and the unit / tmp that cannot mount it, I ignore all that and the black screen remains without doing anything. If I use version 3.11 of Linux the system works, but with 3.13 it throws all those errors. I had to go back to version 13.10 because I am studying and need it to work well. I know that they will tell me to install it in a new partition, I do not do it because I am already at the limit of the primary partitions, they are one for Windows 7, another for recovery and another for data, plus I install Lubuntu that way for whatever problem that arises (I installed Ubuntu several times on PC's and after three days the system crashed, and that had already generated some mistrust).
The issue is, Is it possible to install Lubuntu 14.04 with Linux 3.13 and Wubi without problems in the mounts?
But what is this shit!
excellent post, all very nice until I read:
"For various reasons, which I am not going to say to avoid problems in the post, I prefer Windows"
D:
At this moment I have Ubuntu 14.04 and I want to install Lubuntu 14.04 instead of this but I do the normal procedure, I save the iso image to a dvd from the official lubuntu site, I insert the dvd and I restart the computer and nothing appears only the Ubuntu 14.04 interface asking me for the password to enter, how can I check if the DVD was recorded well? or simply Ubuntu does not recognize that it is another system for being part of the same? and I have to do another installation time ¿?
The solution was the dumbest in the world, I simply had to press F12 and choose to load with a CD, the installation was simple and that is what I was expecting in an environment without so much makeup, everything works fine despite strangely I got hung up and I had to disconnect it the bad ones, I imagine it was a lack of updates, on the other hand flash works perfect but all the time it asks me if I want to install plugins, maybe it's just giving the option of not asking anymore, because it works correctly. I wanted to request help not for me expressly but for a facebook group is very worrying and well it becomes sad that the whole group asks for help and they seem to be adrift hahahaha poor everyone there is one who says that lubuntu is a WED ... of pure desperation so if someone defends himself more in this Lubuntu x please if you give them a hand thanks !!! lubuntu community (Spanish)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/lubuntucomun/
Hello, I really liked your post, I am downloading Lubuntu right now to partition my hard drive and leave it with 80 GB Windows 7 and 80 GB Lubuntu and I am trying, once I get used to Linux I am leaving behind the lousy and insecure Windows that It has already given me enough problems with Trojans, spyware and other garbage and those antivirus that are useless I will not say brands.
I installed lubuntu 14.04, when I installed chromuim the keyboard did not work in the program. From what I read on the internet it is a problem with libraries or something like that with the whole Ubuntu family the same thing happens. Does anyone know if that is already solved? For now I went back to lubuntu 12.04 which is +10 on an old pc similar to the one in the article.
I have tested it on a Compaq v2000 amd semprom processor 1.3ghz fart and 512 mb of ram and the truth is that I was surprised because I always use windows xp and even the home sp1 was heavy, this is a gem, the only thing that made me give birth was to activate the wifi, but in the end I could give it 7 points for computers with less than 1gb of ram memory ...
Good morning everyone
I am very new to linux, I already installed lubuntu on my ASUS laptop i3 processor with 4 RAM, I really love it, but I need to learn how to install programs, it seems that it is not very difficult, I have read something about apt-get and dpkg to install.
Someone could help me?
Thank you very much
look for relevant information about synaptic which is the flagship program to install applications in lubuntu and ubuntu
look for relevant information on synaptic which is the star program to install applications in lubuntu and ubuntu, on apt-get, it is the method to install by terminal, search the internet. "Install applications by terminal in ubuntu", there is a lot of info
Hello, they installed Ubuntu 14.04 on a Levono laptop and I am new, I don't know how to receive imails because I have no idea how to configure it, and to do something you have to know how to get into the program and I have no idea.
I am familiar with windows, but I put the windows cd to install it and it doesn't let me either …… it doesn't do anything.
Could you help me or clarify something, PLEASE
Thank you very much in advance.
Hello, how am I starting to use Lubuntu since I was previously using Ubuntu and Windows 7, everything here is great except for a single detail I cannot install free office because according to what it installs and when I run it it only opens the interface to choose the type of document I want to create that does nothing, it is as if it were "hollow" and I have searched in several places and it does not work for me, nor can I uninstall it from the terminal, it tells me as if it had not been installed but it still appears in the menu.
Hi, a query install Ubuntu 14.04 and I'm slow .. I think it is because of the following:
Intel® Atom ™ CPU D525 @ 1.80GHz × 4
2 gigabytes in RAM
and Intel® IGD x86 / MMX / SSE2 graphics
(lenovo all in one)
So my question is if Lubuntu will run better?
regards
Well, I'm a bit laggy? I installed it next to a partition next to win 7 the machine has the following characteristics:
Two hard drives, one 80 GB and the other 40 GB
I installed it in the 80 GB next to win 7
Single core 1.66Mhz processor
Ram Memory 512MB
And I don't know if I've done something wrong or what?
but it takes even to write
I installed it on a 15GB partition as primary ext4 / at the beginning of the beginning (I don't know what it will have to see that always comes out when I install a beginning / end distro of the beginning): v let's continue ...
1GB of swap (considering that I have 512MB) as logic and also at the beginning
And that was all before I had installed it with the partitions as logic but in swap I put it at the end and the truth was I noticed it faster but now as I did dual boot with win7 I don't know if it would have affected something in particular (the machine is not mine) a relative) well here I say goodbye greetings people! 🙂
In the 20 years of using Linux it has never disappointed me, viruses are not a limit to its operation, installing or uninstalling is something so easy, but when choosing a linux, for notebook or laptop, there are linux better than others. true, but that is a major reason to choose it you have more variety to try. there are some complicated and unfriendly ones that are for more advanced users, and others that are super friendly. As for Windows, I have always had a bad time since the famous DOS, going through the version windows 3.1, 98 and everything else, my conclusion is that it is a poorly made copy of other programs, it even has linux things. Lubuntu is the right thing for notebook or laptop, something spartan but hey, I think that where the strong man should get is in the linux desktops, since gnome is not so light, KDE very heavy, Bodhi or enlightment should improve as well as cinnamon, mate and all should be standardized so that they work well in all environments, especially for novice users. I think Ubuntu took that step aimed at users who do not know much, I think the next step is to make a more standard desktop that works in any distribution. I have noticed that stability problem with some that I have put to the test.
Lubuntu is the OOOOOOndaaaaaaa!
I installed Lubuntu on a Toshiba from 2007 (core2duo T5200 with 1GB of RAM). It is a laptop that was luxurious with its factory WindowsXP and that little by little has been losing performance. Formatting and reinstalling WinXP with the original Toshiba CD revived it a bit, but it still ended up having acceptable but slow behavior.
With that WinXP is no longer supported, I put Lubuntu. With the trial version on Lubuntu pendrive, it worked fluently for me playing 3 movies at the same time from the hard disk, with the abiword open and pasting images, and with a couple of open firefox tabs (one playing YouTube, fourth video in parallel) . The HW has worked directly (wifi, pendrive, CD / DVD - although I have not tried to record, only to read-). So great, backup everything and install. I thought the hardware was in the doldrums, but what this Toshiba needed was a lighter OS. And for the record, I've been happy for many years with WinXP, which fit him like a glove, but for some reason it didn't shoot so well lately. My recommendation: first try the trial version WITHOUT INSTALLING on CD or pendrive, sure that Lubuntu or some other distro will suit you, but try before.
I have installed linux / lubuntu and ps at first it seemed something to me as if it were more business than personal use but when using it I loved the fluidity that this system has. lubuntu in my opinion the better than ubuntu since I have also installed it and ps I do not like much to say…. now I have lubuntu both my home pc and my laptop and I have no problem, my pc is an amd 64 × 2 / 1g ram / 1gb graphics card and the laptop is a pentium 4 with less than 512 mgb of ram and I'm doing very well on both machines ...
I have a thrown Notebook with characteristics similar to those they say at the beginning, so I will be encouraged to install Lubuntu, or failing that, manjaro.
Although on my main pc I am more than happy with Zorin OS
PS I also post work (that's why I get the windows xD logo)
Most excellent¡¡¡¡ Thank you, I was able to show that we do not have to be tied that we can be free and for my case dust my old pc, IT IS FLYING, thank you very much, very good Lubuntu!
As long as Linux offers software compatibility, goodbye Windows.
I use Windows just to play games, I don't see any other use for it 😛
Confusing, when I saw that the page said DESDE LINUX I said to myself, wow, it will be a mega super experience, and I started reading carefully and my enthusiastic face began to change until I read the first Windows. Because I don't understand what it means to tell an experience that is supposed to be good with a Linux distro and end with a machete saying, "For several reasons, which I'm not going to say to avoid problems in the post, I prefer Windows," and it's like saying in order not to waste anything I put a little Linux on my gadget, but it's not a comment from funboy or nothing but So be it. A distro designed for low performance equipment, I tried it to remove the doubt that it was so light, I was delighted with this distro and even though I have a machine to install a distro like arch or debian with kde or environments heavier I prefer this one. I want to say with this that I think it was too much to include the comment about Windows here, in my very humble opinion, Windows is no longer any competition for Linux. Reasons, every Linux user who understands the philosophy of free software will know that it is enough to list a single reason. To show what I'm saying, whatever it is, it's a distro for low-resource PCs. The utility is the same as what the largest distro that exists can provide. The only thing that changes is a graphical interface. If I had been you, I'd think first. If I'm going to end by saying what was in the last paragraph, I'd better not do anything, because maybe later I'll show up with another experience. If you buy a Mac
supposedly each variant of linux was focused for each purpose, be it security like kali linux or others, anyway all of them are very good and stable… ..aunq good hurts with that comment at the end you screwed up, anyway the info is look useful.
It happens to me that in lubuntu 14, when I want to exit I can't right away, I must insist on the exit icon (if it is) or the option of the main menu to "exit" in the panel (lxpanel) ... and it is a great crap, I love Linux and Ubuntu, I love them but that stupidity bothers me a lot ... I usually walk from one side to the other in a hurry and sometimes I need an immediate response! ... If someone knows how to solve it, let me know at my email (ivedci 89 @ gmail. com), all together clear 🙂 GREETINGS
I tell you that my first experience with linux was through the so-called student computers called canaimitas, which at my son's school they gave him one then the OS damaged and searching the network I got OS elementary moon I found that distro and I spent a long time thinking about putting it on my pc but since I was using the windows xp OS I couldn't make up my mind, until I couldn't update the flash player or java anymore, that I gave monte elementary but the machine started to work extremely slow ( opening an application took between 10 and 15 sec.) and when closing it, it was minimized little by little like in slow motion, I removed it and put ubuntu 14.04 lst and the result was the same, read it slow to die! reading and searching the net I found lubuntu that they claim to be for very old computers and voila! fast, fluid and immediate response to each order of execution of opening and closing of applications or programs with the other distro it was happening that the consumption of cpu was almost 100% (from 90 to 97) almost all the time and the ram was the less consumed (450 to 667mb) what surprised me more, the fact is that in the official pages of these distros (elementary or ubuntu they say that it works on machines with little processor (up to 2.0mhz or less) and little ram (1gb at least) recommended) no matter how much I look for answers to that slowness and I did not get specific information and as a result I reached lubuntu 14.04 that the distro that worked best on my pc
These are the pc specifications: 2.8mhz intel pentium 4, 1gb ram, video agp ati radeon 9250, hdd 40gb western digital and hdd80gb western digital.
I think it is a pc enough to have been able to with the other distro but nothing fluid or fast
I have this pc p4 3.4ghz, 3gb ram ddr2, radeon 5450 1gb ram ddr3, creative live 5.1, 2 hard drives of 250 and 320gb respectively ...
I currently have 2 systems on the 1st disk and the other as storage, windows xp and crunchbang waldorf ... neither of the 2 have problems (xp has more than a decade installed and cb since its launch)
but xp only serves me for a couple of games for which I have a law of »they must be and will be on my pc» besides that they are no longer compatible with other systems… shadows of memories and the thing…
I suppose that if I want to have a fresh install of my systems I will have to rescue these windows games and all the music that I have in both systems (in general, music is what occupies the most)
but crunchbang I am already somewhat obsolete, the truth is its stability based on debian has the solidity of adamantium or that of an old-fashioned nokia in any case ... but I'm thinking of lubuntu and maybe later modify its openbox so that it resembles crunchbang, How feasible would it be to make that change and how functional?
a small partition for winxp I suppose about 50gb and the rest all for lubuntu including the hard disk of 320 storage ...
I wonder ... could you give me a hand with the transformation from lubuntu to crunchbang ...?
Hello, it is easy to change the desktop, for example, search in google to install cinamon in ubuntu and you will see the steps to follow, it can also be others but from there you get an idea
very Good the post
I write from my lubuntu in a VM with 512Mb ram and this goes without any problem the only thing heavier is when I open chrome since I have to use it for web development but of the distros that I tested it is the second lightest (the other is puppy) but this is 100% functional for me! and I have not had any problem with anything! even share folders with other windows pc and my android phone
let's stay free use linux!
I installed an icon pack and it looked great.
The truth is I have an old PC amd semprom 1.8 ghz with 2gb ram 160gb hdd and the truth is that it had windows 10 installed but when I started to install programs it became too slow (it must be because of the old processor) and in the end I decided to switch to Linux and I tested Lubuntu 15.10 and the truth is that it surprised me, I love it, it is very light and stable, firefox works perfect, I recommend it for those who have an old PC. and if I get to buy a pc better I will continue with Linux
I'm testing the Lubuntu 16.04 on an old inspiron 6000 laptop that only had XP. It's going very well, I was patient and I managed to configure the wifi (the wired connection went well), this video helped me to do it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phTaRDxNJ50
As an initial note, Linux passes the note, I like it because I feel like a challenge to use the terminal and use commands and sudo and all that blablabla. It reminds me of my beginnings years ago when I was a DOS expert. To say that the day that Linux, maintaining these same performance parameters and free access, "toned up" the system so that it was more "friendly" for the inexperienced user, that day, Mr. Gates' business was out of business. And that I am a fan of Windows 10, it is super efficient for me, of course in a last generation pc .. and how they gave it to us "free" hahahaha
Each one with their tastes. The real thing is that Linux is the best OS, having used pirated wins for years I am happy with the performance of lubuntu in 20GB I have Eclipse, Kdenlive, libreOffice, StarDict, Makehuman, Blender, Audacity, Gimp, ettercap 🙂, Chromium, Firefox and some more things. I regret not having the courage to try linux years ago (win was good until I met ubuntu there is no point of comparison with its 4 desktops). Some say that lubuntu is so reliable that it bores you with how well it works haha
Greetings.
I am between lubuntu and mint with xfce I have tried almost all distros for a Samsung netbook 1.6 ghz mono core 2 gb ram.
If I flirt with surroundings it has ever become unstable. Now I'm back to lubuntu 16.10 and fluent in fluency.
Programs that least overload the cpu in ram, no problem.
Midori as one of the main browsers conbino with another light blue icon I do not remember the name and sometimes it operates.
Lubuntu previous version did not recognize the WiFi in this one if.
I need efficiency pim pam and ready and lubuntu is the one that seems best to me.
I have tried ministries for old PCs and they have not convinced me.
My netbook came with win7 and the processor was slow. Upgrade to approved win10 which is free and save me an original license and it was impossible to open anything.
Now I enjoy using lubuntu to open and close but I would like the environment without changing it to have more colors and to be more fun when I started Windows XP with its green start or Windows Vista.
Do you know how to give more colors to the start button, taskbar, windows and drop-downs… ..
It would already be perfect.
Thank you