A Quick Look At Linux Lite 4.8 DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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Kimdam
Aaaaannnnnd another distro instead of the community focusing on perfecting a single one. I cannot switch to linux because of all the animation programs I use that work perfectly on windows. People complain about windows and yet I haven't had a problem with it since windows 98. Is it bloated? Yes. But some of that bloat allows me to use all my programs perfectly. That is the trade off. As long as the various programmers keep pumping out new distros instead of making one distro truly work then linux is always going to be no more that a programmers toy that the majority avoid while the few pretend it is awesome.
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Aaaaannnnnd another distro instead of the community focusing on perfecting a single one. I cannot switch to linux because of all the animation programs I use that work perfectly on windows. People complain about windows and yet I haven't had a problem with it since windows 98. Is it bloated? Yes. But some of that bloat allows me to use all my programs perfectly. That is the trade off. As long as the various programmers keep pumping out new distros instead of making one distro truly work then linux is always going to be no more that a programmers toy that the majority avoid while the few pretend it is awesome.
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Blood
I installed Linux Lite on my USB stick and it works so good it actually surprised me. That being said, it IS kinda bloated on install. The 1.5gb install iso is deceiving, once installed it was about 6.5-7 gigs (which was unfortunate for my 8 gig flash drive :D). Could use some debloating (and a bigger usb flash on my side), but I'm really pleased with it, since it has almost all of the things I'm familiar with from my main Mint installation. I did try a lot of other lightweight distros (puppy etc), and while they were lighter, they were also significantly less feature-packed than lite.
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I installed Linux Lite on my USB stick and it works so good it actually surprised me. That being said, it IS kinda bloated on install. The 1.5gb install iso is deceiving, once installed it was about 6.5-7 gigs (which was unfortunate for my 8 gig flash drive :D). Could use some debloating (and a bigger usb flash on my side), but I'm really pleased with it, since it has almost all of the things I'm familiar with from my main Mint installation. I did try a lot of other lightweight distros (puppy etc), and while they were lighter, they were also significantly less feature-packed than lite.
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chmoduk
When I got rid of my Amiga and bought a new pentium 166mhz with Windows 95, I soon realised I'd made a mistake after being used to the Amiga shell and workbench. Shortly after I had already switch to redhat linux must've been the early 90s. Of course I had to have a copy of 95 just for duke nukem, unreal tournament, quake etc, but redhat was my first distribution.
I've used most distros since then but settled on Gentoo years ago. Openrc system init, portage, source compiling packages tailored to your native hardware and option choices through package and system wide use flags.
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When I got rid of my Amiga and bought a new pentium 166mhz with Windows 95, I soon realised I'd made a mistake after being used to the Amiga shell and workbench. Shortly after I had already switch to redhat linux must've been the early 90s. Of course I had to have a copy of 95 just for duke nukem, unreal tournament, quake etc, but redhat was my first distribution.
I've used most distros since then but settled on Gentoo years ago. Openrc system init, portage, source compiling packages tailored to your native hardware and option choices through package and system wide use flags.
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The
Windows 7 users should take advantage of the free to Windows 10 upgrade - that is if they still want to run Windows programs because Linux Wine sucks. It runs only a very limited number of windows programs. The newer the program, the worse it run them.. If you are going to run GIMP, Libre Office, and other open source programs you might as well run them from Windows 10. There is nothing magic about running open source programs with Linux. The Open Source programs were first designed to run in Windows.
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Windows 7 users should take advantage of the free to Windows 10 upgrade - that is if they still want to run Windows programs because Linux Wine sucks. It runs only a very limited number of windows programs. The newer the program, the worse it run them.. If you are going to run GIMP, Libre Office, and other open source programs you might as well run them from Windows 10. There is nothing magic about running open source programs with Linux. The Open Source programs were first designed to run in Windows.
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Vint
Very informative video, I am a Windows 7 user with and older laptop and frankly tired of Microsoft in my life, I recently replace the HDD and installed a fresh copy of W7 to get back up running. I am seriously considering Linux Lite and as soon as I can work out all of the questions I have like drivers needed for my printer, and mouse and other items I will be moving over. Thanks again for the much needed information.
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Very informative video, I am a Windows 7 user with and older laptop and frankly tired of Microsoft in my life, I recently replace the HDD and installed a fresh copy of W7 to get back up running. I am seriously considering Linux Lite and as soon as I can work out all of the questions I have like drivers needed for my printer, and mouse and other items I will be moving over. Thanks again for the much needed information.
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Ron
Linux is missing one crucial feature... It doesn't remember the last-opened position of windows and dialogs. It also doesn't remember window/dialog sizes between one use and the next. I've dipped my toe in the Linux waters many times since the mid-1990s and this one thing is still missing. I'm not a Windows advocate, but this is one thing Linux is going to have to do before most Windows users will stick around.
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Linux is missing one crucial feature... It doesn't remember the last-opened position of windows and dialogs. It also doesn't remember window/dialog sizes between one use and the next. I've dipped my toe in the Linux waters many times since the mid-1990s and this one thing is still missing. I'm not a Windows advocate, but this is one thing Linux is going to have to do before most Windows users will stick around.
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Spencer
I just installed this on a 20 year old desktop with 1 core and 2 gb ram. I had recently installed ubuntu on it which made it so slow the computer was just a big paperweight. After lite, it runs great. Its fast and great for running C and assembly programs. When it comes to running lite on an old/ underpowered computer, lite blows everything else out of the water..... no contest.
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I just installed this on a 20 year old desktop with 1 core and 2 gb ram. I had recently installed ubuntu on it which made it so slow the computer was just a big paperweight. After lite, it runs great. Its fast and great for running C and assembly programs. When it comes to running lite on an old/ underpowered computer, lite blows everything else out of the water..... no contest.
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Kees
I change from win 7 to Linux Lite 4.8 op my older laptop i.ts run perfect, fist I try linux mint 19.3 but that,s running not so well, to slow.
in my work laptop this one a lot faster ,this one have two SSD drive,s, I Install with dual boot Win 10 up first drive
and Linux mint 19.3 up the second drive,and it works great
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I change from win 7 to Linux Lite 4.8 op my older laptop i.ts run perfect, fist I try linux mint 19.3 but that,s running not so well, to slow.
in my work laptop this one a lot faster ,this one have two SSD drive,s, I Install with dual boot Win 10 up first drive
and Linux mint 19.3 up the second drive,and it works great
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john
Great video Windows 7 users should change to Lite 4.8 and dual boot so they can copy all their files over the Lite Deskto. I have made procedure to install and set the desktop up copy your files with a tour round the features of Lite also how to turn it into Windows 12 see ginamiller.co.uk/superlite.php
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Great video Windows 7 users should change to Lite 4.8 and dual boot so they can copy all their files over the Lite Deskto. I have made procedure to install and set the desktop up copy your files with a tour round the features of Lite also how to turn it into Windows 12 see ginamiller.co.uk/superlite.php
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Chris
The biggest problem for linux is that people just don't want to have to use terminal. Linux users like to say that terminal is easier and they are just wrong. It's not a steep learning curve but it has to be done. Make everything point and click, that is when linux will get a bigger market share.
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The biggest problem for linux is that people just don't want to have to use terminal. Linux users like to say that terminal is easier and they are just wrong. It's not a steep learning curve but it has to be done. Make everything point and click, that is when linux will get a bigger market share.
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