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[Closed] Lubuntu. How ace is that?!?!?

Stoner · 2013-02-11T09:17:51Z

Have been mucking around on a pair of netbooks of late. One has XP (I need it for Excel as a work computer when roving) the other one I had put a copy of Google ChromiumOSbut due to Adobe/MP3 Codec etc licencing restrictions it was a bit lacking as a Sofa Browser computer. Then I read of Lubuntu - A lightweight distro of Ubuntu ideal for netbooks and for those of us brought up post-DOS on idiot-proof GUIs. It still has terminal, which is handy for copying google instructions into, but you can use Lubuntu without needing to know anything about Linux. And of course it is FREE! Its easy to make a bootable stick to try out in your hardware and then from there just as easy to install it side by side with your existing OS (Say XP or W7) if you have the room. It will install a boot manager too so you can select the OS to boot. All for the hard of thinking like me! It boots in less than 15 seconds, runs Chromium browser so syncs with your google world. It means I can have a simple browser machine when I want and can go back to clunky MS XP Excel machine when I need it for work. read how here(but you need to go here to download the ISO) I have seen the light, and it's penguin shaped! :)

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Stoner

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http://www.minitool-drivecopy.com/ worked for me as a drive copy.

I used it to replicate my old 32GB SSD and move the image to my new 64GB one. Booted straight away. Perfect.

Also check out EASEUS partition manager - been great for sortign out various drives and doing integrity checks.

Posted : 18/02/2013 11:21 pm

dawson

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cheers

Posted : 18/02/2013 11:31 pm

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