I am bringing up this question as my accountant has donated some laptops (Dell Latitude E5530 64 bit i5 4 GB RAM and HD of approx 115 GB if I include the space that Win 10 Pro is currently taking up).

I am familiar with and very happy with LL 3.8 and I love "System Back" having needed to use it more than once, in fact several times!

Having read a bit about the 4.x series I am feeling that I should stick with LL 3.8 because of the lack of System Back in the 4.x series as these computers are being used for the high school youth in South Africa for academic study and research, not university or business.

My intent is to put Linux Lite on a few of these laptops as "back up" for the youth in case one of the really old laptops packs it in while I am back in Canada for 5 months.  At some future point if I required one for a youth going to University I would then reload Win 10 pro on these ones.

I'm wondering if I am missing something that may make my decision a poor choice or if it appears valid?

Because I ran into issues with one of the old laptops I use for youth I decided to try the route Artim suggested about selective updates since I am a newbie.  I was able to install it on the problem laptop, however I have tried installing it on two other older laptops and I believe I am doing the same steps.

I followed the article I found for "update manager for Linux lite 3.x series" and initially on all of them I went ahead and tried the sudo line for the unlockforus repository which didn't work and then I found out it appears that this repository already exists on the laptops. So I went ahead and put the other sudo command in to get and install mintupdate.  As I said it worked on the first laptop, but the message I am getting on the other(s) is:

WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
mintupdate-lite
E:There were unauthenticated packages and -y was used without --allow-unauthenticated

I'm not sure what I am doing different or wrong...

Might someone be able to comment and point me in the right direction should I wish to pursue putting this on select laptops?

It was suggested from another thread I posted that I try another browser on a machine that was acting unusually.

While it currently is acting normally I would like to be prepared and have Chromium installed in case Firefox stops working as I may not be able to install at that time.

I have read an earlier post that recommends I do it through Lite software so that flash player works properly, however when I go into the install/remove programs and type chromium in the search bar there are about 10-12 different lines (and their respective boxes) that I can tick - I’m not sure which ones (maybe all?) that I should tick to install.

Is someone able to guide me here?

Here's my latest little blog post, and it offers important reasons why Windows is so susceptible to viruses and malware.  Not just the standard cop-out answer, "well, most people use Windows so viruses are written for it," but three major fundamental flaws that make Windows especially vulnerable.

The video is is kinda geeky, but I kinda broke it down for us non-geeky people.

https://technophobeconfessions.wordpress...ly-flawed/

Enjoy!

I installed LL 3.8 on an HP Mini 2133. Part of the keyboard can be used as a number pad by holding the Fn key. The number pad is always on unless I hold the Fn key down.  Is there a way to fix this?

This is an old Dell Inspiron 1720 that has been running fine on LL 3.8 till recently.  The youth using it mentioned that on occasion he wasn't able to connect to the internet, then other times he was able to do so.

The current issue is that while it does consistently "connect" (or show it is connected) when he/we pull up Firefox the page is blank with the exception of the menu bar and url line and in the upper right corner the "dot" keeps going back and forth indicating it is trying to connect.  It is running Firefox quantum 65.0.1 (32 bit). I even try pulling up google on it and same thing.  I have tried refreshing Firefox, still no change.

Also for whatever reason despite having a user name and password, when it is turned on it no longer asks for user and password...

I'm thinking with it acting weird maybe the hard drive is on the way out..?

I'm at the point that maybe I will simply reload LL3.8 (previously I believe I upgraded from LL3.4), but I'm not sure if this will really change anything...

Despite the above, it can still act as a study information source as so far accessing the study info (videos, exams, etc) still seem to function.

Does anyone have any insight or suggestions?

I have run a system report and have it saved.

asus uefi wont boot unless win bootloader is set to first. keep getting "insert bootable media" message with any other  [cd/dvd, or usb] thanks.

hi ,i'm new to Linux. I've installed lite cause my machine is an older laptop.
I've noticed after a reboot everything works great but eventually everything slows down over time.
for instance after reboot i can watch a movie without hassles,but if i do other stuff for awhile and THEN want to watch a movie it doesn't play properly,i have to reboot then it'll play fine again.
i'm thinking its a hardware issue?not sure cause before had Win7 on an never had a problem.
is there maybe any settings i'm missing somewhere?

Hey guys my  entire docker on my system keeps not loading after I login every other login?? Do I need to reinstall??

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Hallo there i try to install viber on my system but i fail
here is what i do do far :


I downloaded the viber for ubuntu from here https://www.viber.com/download/ and i try to install :

first with double clik on it in my desktop and the erros is that :
https://drive.google.com/open?id=12ZnoIy...aJ2KSlGopX


and then o try: