I got my desktop upgraded all the way to Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr. Everything was fine. Then I read a few websites on how to “tweak” (i.e., personalize) your system and tried a few of them. I wound up with something I didn’t like… and could not get back to what I had. I tried repairing the system, no good. I tried reinstalling Ubuntu from scratch, apparently had errors on the disk. I didn’t want to go back to Karmic and go through the whole upgrade process again, so I tried Mint.<\/p>\n
I tried a few other 64-bit operating systems, and then remembered I had been asked to try out Lighthouse 64 6.02 B2 Mariner, a derivative of Slackware Linux in Puppy style (basically a 64-bit SlaxPup informed by FatDog64). I know that for some of you this is gibberish, but for others you’ll want the most exact language I can use.<\/p>\n
Mariner looked great and was easy to use. I knew that Puppies save a config file to the hard drive for faster boots, and went to reboot to save the file. It wouldn’t save, said there wasn’t room.<\/p>\n
It turns out that somewhere in the disk installs of either Ubuntu or Mint, my hard drive got formatted to a disk format I’m not ever aware of. So all I had toi do was run GPartEd and reformat that giant partition to ext4. Now I’m good, and very happy.<\/p>\n
I still need to run it through its paces, find out what I need to do for Skype (I have a non-standard microphone and cheap webcam, but they worked in Ubuntu), maybe check out the Messenger (though I rarely use that these days), stuff like that.<\/p>\n
I did lose one important file in all this, but it’s nothing I don’t have a moderately recent backup of and nothing I can’t construct from scratch if I have to.<\/p>\n
Anyone out there who is looking for a fast, simple, beautiful version of Linux should give Mariner a try. The forum implies that the guy working on this might be sick — it has been a long time since the B2 and there’s no Final and he hasn’t commented for some time. Even so, the forum shows a large number of desktops and laptops this has run on, including the Dell Optiplex 740 Enhanced that John Noggoel gave me to get me back into the Desktop world.<\/p>\n
Hugs,
\nMe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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