I read a nice article on LL on "Planete Linux" magazine and here I am.
I quickly adopted it since I immediately enjoyed it.

I migrated from Mint 17 that is a nice distro (it made me to abandon W******).
However with the recent versions it tends to become heavy.
Migrating to something too light but incomplete is not a good idea either.

So a BIG THANK YOU for LL which has found the right balance !

(10-12-2014, 06:30 PM)Spatry link Wrote: ... I believe Linux Lite to be the BEST Ubuntu based distribution available today. ...

Putting this in the Off Topic section because I don't think it's LL related.  If it turns out to be, someone can move it.

I never turn my computer off (ever, other than a reboot once in a while).  In the past month or so, I've sat down at my desk only to find that, at some point, the computer's rebooted on it's own.  Unfortunately, when it does this, all I get are blank monitors.  The computer was (over) built my me about 3 years ago, it's as cool as it's going to get without water, the dust was blown out about 6 weeks ago and I only installed LL about the same time.  No issues when it's running and (so far) it's never happened while I've been sitting in front of it.

I've gotten the occasional Blue Screen of Death (on other computers) back when I was running Windows but there's just "nothing" there when this happens now.  It's like the monitors are turned off.  Memory is correctly seated (although I guess it "could" be dying) and there's nice cool air blowing out of all 3 exhaust fans.  If I hit the reset button on the computer case, she boots right back up (although a little slow).

What do ya'll think?  HDD?  RAM?  mobo?  Linux?

ASUS M4A89GTD PRO mobo
AMD Phenom II 965 Black Edition Deneb Quad-Core running at 3.4Ghz (not overclocked)
4GB (2 sticks) HyperX DDR3 1333 RAM
EVGA GeForce GTS 450
Corsair 650W PSU
all wrapped up in an Antec 1200 case

Everything but the PSU and case were new in '11.  The PSU and case were new in '09.  If there's a hardware issue, I don't mind replacing a part but I can't afford to build a new computer.  If it's Linux related, I don't mind reinstalling it other than losing all my Firefox/Thunderbird data.  I CAN'T lose some of that.  With nothing like Mozbackup to back that stuff up, I'm screwed.  (One of the reasons I haven't ditched Win7 on the laptop for LL.)

When XP used to slow down significantly, defragging the HD helped a lot. My computer is significantly slower now, I am wondering if I should be doing something similar to defragging?

If not, any ideas why it has slowed down?

Thanks

Alex

...instead of using xdg-open or whatever it uses to pick an application for an unknown file. This happens also when opening a directory from another application (eg, opening my downloads folder from firefox)

It will open a terminal with the Linux Lite updates script. Looking in the task manager, it just creates the command "updates /home/bugzee/foo/bar/filename"
I tried sudo rm /usr/scripts/updates, now it opens a terminal with nothing in it.
I tried making /usr/scripts/updates into

I needed to install flash player with sudo. But when i go to download it it asks for a sudo password. I don't remember setting one and can't install flash without it. I've tried to reset the password, but it asks for the current password to do that. So... I need help.

This program has started loading everytime I switch the computer on - I don't know what it is and I don't want it. Please, how do I get rid of it?

thanks

Hello,
there is a free online course for beginning with Python at Codecademy.
It is done using their online editor.

I am completely new to Lunix so please bare with me.  I have taken an 2007ish Dell Inspiron 640M and loaded linux lite on it for use as a computer to hook up and leave with our TV.  So far loving Linux Lite - easy install and easy setup for everything I need this to be able to do except I can't get it to come out of "Suspend" using the power button on the external keyboard, it comes out of suspend fine using the power on the actual laptop.  I have gone into the Bios and updated it to enable wakeup via USB but this didn't fix it, I assume there must be additional configuration but have been unable to find it.  I did look through/search the forum before posting.  Any help would  be great!

Thanks!

I am looking to install a Photo program that requires Adobe air first. Is there a trick to installing Adobe air on Lite or is it just not supported?