Hey everyone! 

We all love Linux lite, and we know how awesome the os is. Linux lite is constantly improving in features and accessibility, and getting better and better.

So, as the community we might as well play our part, and help LL get widely known.

What we can do :
1. Review LL on various websites. Eg. Distrowatch, Slant and your favorite.

2. Write about LL on your blog and write review of LL in blog. Commenting on a blog post to let the blogger know about LL.

In case you think more points shall be added here, let me know.

Please consider following :
1. Use sensible language while writing review or comments about LL.

In case you think more points shall be added here, let me know.

Also, don't forget to write here about your contribution on making LL reach to more of them.

Cheers.

Namaskar, 

I was wandering around the web with keyword Linux Lite. I found some useful information which may be used by community and LL team to enhance user experience and to enhance reach.


1. I found some links which have thoughts of users about LL. I am sharing them here.

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=225069

The main problem people think, seems to be incompatibility with UEFI. Actually, people are real angry for that.

https://freedompenguin.com/articles/opin...inux-lite/

It's a one year old review, may be useful.

http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/2016/09...linux.html


2. When I was searching for an appropriate OS for my PC, I had crawled many comparing sites and many forums to come to a decision, which was Linux Mint XFCE(I'll be honest here). But, only some time after my decision and some time before I had installed OS, I came to know about Linux Lite. And, the result is LL.

May we be lacking in marketing and in taking the word out?

I hope Linux Lite makes top in near future. 

Thanks,
Sanmay

After loading of Linux boot and login is fine. None of the above work to shutdown the system. If I press and hold the power button the system will power off..... BUT..... as the power button is released the system boots back up.

Any ideas.... I have followed most suggestions and not found a fix. I do not believe it is an OS problem... seems to me a BIOS problem. There seems to be no setting in the BIOS that will prevent the reboot.

Version
Kernel Linux 4.4.0-70-generic (x86_64)
Compiled #91-Ubuntu SMP Wed Mar 22 12:47:43 UTC 2017
C Library Unknown
Default C Compiler GNU C Compiler version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4)
Distribution Linux Lite 3.4


BIOS
Date 09/14/2012
Vendor AMI
Version 8.08

Thanks in advance for and suggestions....

bgtexas

I'm still learning, tweaking, and playing around with this new install of Lite. I'm constantly being amazed at what it can do. One of the problems I was experiencing on my old install of Mint 18.1, was a painfully sluggish Firefox. Not only did it take a LONG time to open the app, everything about my web surfing was slow. I have Internet service with my cable provider and have 100 Mbps service. I was NEVER able to see speeds above about 50 Mbps. While that's plenty fast to do all the things I do, I just felt cheated that I couldn't get everything I was paying for. I just ran another speed test and this one was only 106.40. Yesterday I was constantly hitting 108 - 112 Mbps.

Another thing I'm noticing is that Firefox itself just SNAPS when I do anything like open a new tab, open bookmarks, or open anything on the MenuBar. It's just a great feeling to actually see this laptop performing the way it should be. This G50 isn't a very high end laptop, but with the hardware it does have I knew it should be showing me a lot more than it was with Mint. Don't misunderstand me. I'm not criticizing Linux Mint. I used it for  long time with no complaints. It's just that something started happening between Mint and my 2 laptops about version 17.1 to cause really sluggish performance. It's entirely possible that the real problem was with the laptops, or the way I tweaked my installs, and not with Mint at all. I'm just really pleased with the way the 2 laptops are performing now with Lite. Looks like I'll be around here for a long while.

G'day All,


Just curious about people's opinions on using the btrfs filesystem vs ext4.
I've been using btrfs for new installs of different distro's for about a year now, so far mostly without any hassles.
Apparently it's to be the way of the future, eventually.


What are your thoughts on using or not using it?


8)

I have an LL3.4/Win7 dual-boot setup on a single 250GB SSD, for a Dell Latitude D630.
However, I needed a bigger drive for more data files and also a Windows recovery partition, the latter apparently needing a significant about of disk space.

So, I cloned the above set-up onto a 500GB SSD using the 'dd' command:

Jerry,
Would you consider MegaSync as an alternative to Dropbox for the LL distros  Based in NZ they offer 50GB of secure cloud storage for free and have linux options..  Trialling it now as Dropbox storage offers limited  "free"capacity by modern standards.

Hello, Everyone,

Noticed a bit of a strange thing. I use LibreOffice Draw quite a bit, and I wanted to add it to my Favorites list in the Menu. But when I went to find it under Menu>All, I didn't see it listed at all. Only Writer, Calc, and Base are listed. Yet, Draw is installed, and I have been using it (by opening Writer then File>New>Drawing). So my question is, how do I add it to the Menu items, so that I can add it to my Favorite programs?

Thanks!
Kris

I'm happy to say that I got Lite 3.4 - 64 Bit installed on my Lenovo G50-45 this afternoon. I had trouble yesterday getting it on my wife's B50-45, but finally got it. I had no trouble at all installing on my G50. Everything went silky smooth. I did all the updates, tweaked the look of things a little bit, then even did a full home directory backup and set a restore point. I don't normally do either one, but figured it would be nice to be able to roll things back if need be. I'm going to do the backup and restore on my wife's laptop maybe tomorrow, then I'm considering copying the backup and restore from both laptops onto a USB flash stick for safe keeping off the hard drives.

I just can't say enough about how totally impressed with Lite I am. I've been using Linux on every PC in my house for about 15 years now. Over that time I've tried, and used, a wide selection of distros. I've been pretty loyal to Mint Mate for the last few years. I'm not sure what happened, but both of the laptops we have started experiencing real sluggish behavior. It started with version 17.1 and continued as I upgraded to 18 and 18.1, which is why I started looking for an alternative distro. Really glad I did. My wife's laptop is like a whole new critter now. My G50 is unbelievable with Lite on it.

So to each and every person involved with making Lite what it is today, THANK YOU!

I kind of hate to be so dumb about something like this, but I'm just not following what all is going on with Flash for Linux. As I do understand, Adobe/Macromedia is no longer supporting or developing Flash for Linux. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong. But I see regular updates coming as I do my software updates. But then I also see different attempts at other third party alternatives. So, what's the story? Should I be using Flash or not. Is there an alternative I should definitely be using?

Any help on this will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.