MX Linux Forum

Thanks to everyone for the advice. I'm going to upgrade it to 4 gigs of ram and install Linux Mint. My Granddaughter wants to learn Linux and I think that would be the easiest one for her to learn on, plus that is one of the distro's her teacher uses. Since they are learning about Linux in school ...

I have a 2007 Gateway MX6959 laptop. It has an Intel core 2 T5500 processor, 2 gigs of ram, Intel mobile 945 GM GPU, and 320 HDD. I installed Lubuntu with LXDE desktop and it was buggy. Tried to change the panel preferences and it just wiped all icons off the panel. Then some of the icons it wiped ...

I manipulate my image with Gimp, it's the first time I used Gimp. Getting closer to a windows free environment!

I voted for change little, but I change a little at time. The more I learn from others and the changes they made the more changes I make. Then again I've made changes and hated them and changed them back. That is why I think Linux is the best operating system, no one dictates what you do to your ...

Thanks Bartman, I'm not spending anymore money on this laptop. I replaced the Battery and took it from 6 gigs of ram to 8 gigs (I think that's the max). I wanted something I could explore linux distros and see if I liked one more than Linux Mint. I have tried a few and I really like MX linux, I'm ...

Thanks Buck, I didn't know.

not sure what difference it makes but was under the impression that the ahs version you have installed was specifically created for newer hardware rather than machines of your vintage


That's funny you mentioned that, I have the CPU temp displayed on the panel on my Linux Mint machine. I wanted ...

This is my work laptop. I timed both laptops from power on to desktop, the time includes typing in the password. Work laptop - 17 seconds, old HP laptop 1 minute 12 seconds.

System:
Host: tenmm61 Kernel: 5.3.0-40-generic x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: Cinnamon 4.4.8 Distro: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia ...

This is my old HP laptop, I upgraded to 19.1.

System: Host: mx Kernel: 5.4.0-3-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2
Distro: MX-19.1_ahs_x64 patito feo February 15 2019
Machine: Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook v: 0588120002242B10000020100 serial ...

You should post the output of

inxi - F

For both machines in this thread so a comparison of hardware can be made. Also it'll help establish if 1.1 to 1.2 mins boot up is reasonable for your home machine.

Are we talking bootup to login screen, or are you including the time to log in to the ...