New LL user just starting my journey in the Linux world.

I've been using computers since the Apple 2E and BBC at school, even had a MicroBee at home when I was a kid.
Thing is I've never really looked into how computers work or how they do what they do, more been a user of software and that's about it. I was more interested in mechanical things (bikes, cars, and trucks mostly) and making them go fast.

Fast forward to recently and I've fallen into a job at work that in some parts means I deal with computers on a deeper level using Win and Linux mostly so I've taken the step of starting to learn how things work and how to make them work. I'm certaly a noob of noobs in this regard but I'm learning everyday.

Up until about 4 months ago I didn't really know what Linux was, now I have 2 distros working, one LL 3.X on a 15yo Toshiba laptop (512Mb, 40Gb, 32bit) and another dual booting Win10/LM19.3 on a recent HP all in one desktop.

Thanks for letting me in and maybe one day I'll be able to give something back (might be along while tho ;-)  )

I have a bit of a problem with LL 4.2 UEFI not seeing my WiFi which means I can not get onto the www or any other network.
Info/outputs are at the very bottom of this post.

Using the very good info on this thread I have installed LL4.2UEFI on an external HDD that I recycled from an older laptop and so far it seams to be running spotty dog apart from the network issue I'm having. I guess you could say that I am dual booting Win10/LL4.2UEFI
I've tried LL4.8 in BIOS as this laptop can do legacy mode but still the same problem exists.
Problem also exists when using both versions of LL via live USB
I haven't tried an earlier version of LL yet but that is on the cards if I can't find a solution.

I do have an earlier version (3.X IIRC) of LL running on a 15 yo laptop and this doesn't have the problem so I copied all the network info over into this laptop with no joy.

To me it looks like LL on this laptop is not picking up the network card/adaptor so maybe drivers are missing however with no WiFi to search for what is needed I am not sure of the next step to take so I can resolve.

I'm currently search forums (mostly Ubuntu related forums so far) etc for info that may lead me in the right direction and wondered if anyone here might be able to help point me in the right direction.

Quote: djcall~  inxi -Fi
System:    Host: djcall-Lenovo-ideapad-S130-14IGM Kernel: 4.15.0-38-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3
          Distro: Linux Lite 4.2
Machine:  Device: laptop System: LENOVO product: 81J2 v: Lenovo ideapad S130-14IGM serial: N/A
          Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0R32866WIN serial: N/A UEFI: LENOVO v: 9HCN26WW date: 07/09/2019
Battery    BAT1: charge: 29.7 Wh 96.1% condition: 30.8/32.2 Wh (96%)
          hidpp__0: charge: N/A condition: NA/NA Wh
CPU:      Quad core Intel Pentium Silver N5000 (-MCP-) cache: 4096 KB
          clock speeds: max: 2700 MHz 1: 932 MHz 2: 973 MHz 3: 903 MHz 4: 915 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel Device 3184
          Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 ) drivers: modesetting (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
          Resolution: [email protected]
          OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel UHD Graphics 605 (Geminilake) version: 4.5 Mesa 18.0.5
Audio:    Card Intel Device 3198 driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: ALSA v: k4.15.0-38-generic
Network:  Card: Realtek RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
          IF: N/A state: N/A mac: N/A
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 448.1GB (1.7% used)
          ID-1: USB /dev/sda model: Tech size: 320.1GB
          ID-2: /dev/sdb model: HFS128G39TNF size: 128.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 291G used: 5.1G (2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
          ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.15GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda1
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:  System Temperatures: cpu: 34.0C mobo: 10.0C
          Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 173 Uptime: 17 min Memory: 464.2/3761.3MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.56


djcall~  sudo lshw -class network
  *-network UNCLAIMED     
      description: Network controller
      product: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
      vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
      physical id: 0
      bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
      version: 00
      width: 64 bits
      clock: 33MHz
      capabilities: pm msi pciexpress cap_list
      configuration: latency=0
      resources: ioport:1000(size=256) memory:a1100000-a110ffff

Bonjour à tous,
    Après un tour de table des distributions linux, j'ai installé LL 4.8 sur un Toshiba T130-13C (passage en SSD 128Go). Tout est OK (imprimante DW2835 de base, scanner V39 après chargement et script epson) avec des performances honorables:
systemd-analyze time
Startup finished in 6.555s (kernel) + 7.394s (userspace) = 13.950s
graphical.target reached after 7.311s in userspace
Quelques reprises en français avec l'éditeur de menus. Quid à la prochaine mise à jour?
Longue vie à LL.
      jpn

Ubuntu will not be including Python2 in 20.04

The first victim is Cherrytree, the note taking app in Lite Software. So now we need a replacement for it. Any ideas?

I just installed Linux Lite on an old PC (not too old).  I'm starting a serious transition from Windows 10.  I need to move several applications over, a password manager, VPN software, a few other baseline apps.  I'll worry about user files later.

Question: Can I user any basic Linux how-to book with Linux Lite?  Looking for a basic overview of Linux. 

Thank you,

Ed

I assume this is a software issue

Regular keys seem to work. Even AZERTY

But the 'at' key for e=mails doesn't work. And as you can tell e=mail also malfunctions

And there's other like exclamation mark


Dutch is available, but only Netherlands Dutch, which uses a  completly different layout (QWERTY for starters)

Not Belgian Dutch

nstall Updates Error log
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Install Updates could not fetch the package cache information lists.
Go to https://dfgkh547-jsdfv8.iyhkj.tk/forums/ and paste the log below into a new or existing thread for assistance.

============ Log ===========

Geraakt:1 http://repo.linuxliteos.com/linuxlite diamond InRelease
@Geraakt:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Geraakt:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease
Geraakt:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease
Geraakt:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease
Geraakt:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/teejee2008/ppa/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Ophalen:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/otto-kesselgulasch/gimp/ubuntu bionic InRelease [15,4 kB]
Geraakt:8 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Pakketlijsten worden ingelezen...
E: Bij pakketbron 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/otto-kesselgulasch/gimp/ubuntu bionic InRelease' is de 'Label'-waarde gewijzigd van 'gimp' naar 'gimp stable'

I have Linux lite 4.8 installed on Win-10 using Oracle virtual-box 6. I failed to install
Guest addition installation.

Hope some one can help me
regards

vlc will not recognize the cd. the cd is mounted and the music files show up on the drive but when vlc opens and i click on the devices icon the files do not transfer to vlc media player. I can move the files to my music file but i have to input all album info. What am I doing wrong. I though vlc would get all the album info automatically.

Upon my first bootup of v4.8, I got the popup requesting login. I typed in "linux"(but no quotes), and got error message saying wrong password. I read to do that somewhere on the LL site. I then tried some of the usual pw's-user, admin, root; nothing worked. Please advise. Thank you.
Update: Somehow after posting this, I got onto Jerry's post about this topic, so here's some further info:
- What software did you use to write the image?
MultiBootUSB- this was before I saw the "doesn't work with MultiBoot USB disclaimers. It has the PLOP bootloader built-in. However, booting still gave same error.