OK, This is what I did. The Dell in question is the same one that I had the wireless issue.
Now I have tried to update it to Beryl. I tried using the live cd but then realized it is only a dvd-rom. So, I created a live DVD and the laptop booted up from there. I installed the OS on the drive and right at the end of the installer it says that the installer crashed. It would not shut down unless I clicked on shutdown. Then it hangs or something and I have to hold power button for 5 sec.

When I try to boot up the machine it does nothing. What have I done.?
Even if I hit F12 and select the HDD it still will not boot. I have even tried to boot from the grub screen with boot internal hdd, I see booting from local disk and a courser (<--spelling) below that, but that is it. What have I done or what can I do now?

Many thanks.
Ohjrson

This one has come from quite a few transformations...finally achieved the desired end result.

Independent/Unusual Movies or Short Movies

I like independent movies. They're not always the best (sometimes even terrible) but I still like them. Here's a few, please add your own - so I more to watch

Wer (2013)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2229511/

Let the Right One In (2008)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139797/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

So Pretty (2012) <Short Film>
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2376210/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Freely available on YouTube

I have been idly wondering if the menu options Install Additional Software, Remove Additional Software and Install / Remove software (under System) could cause some confusion for new users as it sounds very much like they do the same job? I was thinking that the Install Additional Software and Remove Additional Software could be renamed to "Quickly install popular software"
and "Quickly remove popular software" would make the difference more immediately clear.



One last thought while I am being picky, would it be better for new users to have (a possibly re-branded) Lubuntu software centre replacing the slightly more scary looking Synaptic and giving it a name that suggests the now familiar concept of an app store?

... is the no-fuss way that it accepts new commonly-used hardware. This morning I plugged in a new mouse and it just went to work no problems. I remember that in windows one would get all the notices about 'found new hardware' installing your new hardware' etc...even for just plugging in a new USB thumb drive!

It's so refreshing!

This is an "all-in-one". After several frustrating hours got it working. Installed it and test print worked fine. Tried scanner from scan application and that worked (surprise!). Then tried printing from applications and it would not work. Traced to having named the printer "Fred's printer" or equivalent. Remove the single quote and all is fine!

I guess this problem would apply to any HP printer, and quite likely to others. Beware!

Hello,

I've just installed linux lite on an older computer - unfortunately I am not able to change the language (menus etc. to German for the main user.

I tried to change it via the setting > language support, applied system wide, even removed English as an option but all the menus in all programs remain in English.

How can I change the language?  (by the way German was selected during the installation process in the first place)

B.

ok so i have been to MULTIPLE sites and tried everything to get to origin running on my laptop so i can play my sims 3 gams that i spent so much money on if someone could please please help me i'm really new to linux so i am assuming i may or may not be missing something i am really not sure .....thanks to anyone who tries to help in advance

Began trying to install LL last night after enabling AMD RAID (1) in BIOS for 2) 2 TB disks.  Left to install and went to bed.  This morning when I went to check on the install, there was a window on top of another saying that the installer had crashed.  Both windows were unresponsive and I had to reset.  Nothing was installed on the disk(s).  Will be working on it again tonight but wondering if anyone has done RAID on AMD HW and gotten LL installed successfully (do not know if the problem with installer crash is related to my attempt to enable RAID or not (and RAID may not in fact be enabled, only see one disk when the install begins and the AMD RAID BIOS screen does not look right)).

On a related note, I thought I came across a tutorial on the forum regarding how to properly provide pertinent info in a posting to get help when reporting on a problem.  Can someone put me onto that (or am I remembering incorrectly?)  Like for instance how to get the command line stuff behind the GUI if I continue to experience installer crashes?

Thanks,

Robert

I'm a long term Linux user who has never settled on one distro for very long. I have poor attention span I guess! Although Linux in some flavour has been my only OS at home for over a decade my journey has been so smooth that I haven't really become an expert in it, except in areas where I have needed to learn my way around. Despite this I do moderate on a couple of other Linux forums.

For the past few months, I have been installing Fedora with Xfce which I love, using it for a while and then replacing it with Linux Lite which I also love and so on. Currently back on Linux Lite.

I love Fedora as it is so bleeding edge (it has just got the 3.16 kernel for example) and is pretty quick. I love Linux Lite because it is based on an LTS version so should be supported for a while and is blindingly fast which is all the more remarkable as it includes full fat software like Libre Office. Yes I am aware they are conflicting things. Welcome to my mind!

I had what I thought was a good suggestion to improve the software installer (check boxes instead of radio buttons for multiple selections) but found it had already been done after an update; so it seems the distro is in a constant state of incremental improvement which is a good sign especially after the recent news about Bodhi. I have been heard saying that Linux Lite is what Xubuntu should be, but isn't quite.

My main desktop: