Recent content by darry1966

Hi Guys, Can anyone enlighten a forgetful old fella like how to change my Xubuntu 24.04 from booting to login manager asking for password to booting directly to desktop. Forgot when installing to choose that option. Do I need to modify xinitrc? Not sure what to do thanks.

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I think Thinkpads and Dells would be my go tos and also Compaq.

Ok there is a stupid bug that has not been fixed if using Google-chrome on some machines as shown here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1395620/chrome-libva-error-usr-lib-x86-64-linux-gnu-dri-ihd-drv-video-so-init-failed Sorry but that is pretty lazy, as this error was in previous versions...

I'm using Xubuntu 24.04 as I felt like a change. It seems to be running very well so far on my Thinkpad T420. As for the Snaps I am using the Xubuntu minimal and I chose a firefox appimage instead of the snap. I found snaps very slow to install. I just keep to a simple only what I need system.

I'd like to pick up on the saying in the world of Puppy namely "do-ocracy" with emphasis on the word do. A newcomer can really find their distro(s) of choice by trying different ones to see what suits their machine. You can make mistakes and learn from them and grow in your knowledge. You...

Welcome aboard. Sounds like a good strategy regarding keeping old machine going until you get used new Linux machine.

Hi, welcome aboard. I see this question so often. The answer is basically you need to try different ones out and see what works best with your computer. Reason all laptops and Desktops are different and react differently to different distros. So short answer your Linux journey trying...

Welcome.

Stumbled across this back from the dead.... https://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

Can you tell us more ablout our machine like the model etc.

Welcome aboard. Enjoy the Linux journey.

Rest in peace Alan. My condolences to his family.

Congrats on your retirement. Welcome aboard our forums - have any questions please feel free to ask many wise heads here.

Well been watching season 2 of this and it is getting better. Roz turned up - one of the original characters. Be great if they brought back Brent Spiner's character.