MX-14 is great

[NGIB]

I may experiment with that but I like to install and forget when I change to a different OS. I just converted my wife from W7 to a Lubuntu setup 2 weeks ago and so far she is very happy. Fast boots, fast shutdowns, and the system works. I will likely switch her machine over to MX-14 next week and the only warning I will have to give her is to ignore the text scrolling on the screen at bootup. Plymouth is OK for hiding the text but it also has caused issues so I can live without it just fine...

[uncle mark]

...ignore the text scrolling on the screen at bootup. Plymouth is OK for hiding the text but it also has caused issues so I can live without it just fine...

I like seeing that stuff. May not catch much of it or even understand a lot of it, but if there's ever a startup issue you can at least see what's going on.

[Eadwine Rose]

First thing I always did as soon as I started with linux was disable splash. Those rolling messages were cool and an indicator I was NOT using Windows, which was also cool hehe.

Later on I learned the messages could be very useful indeed, and I use them every day now to check the naming of my harddrive (groan need to do the jumper still) and check whether I need to reboot or not

[NGIB]

I do not mind the messages but my wife is "different" when it comes to technology. I setup her computer with the bare minimum of icons, shortcuts, and menu entries as she only wants to see what see really needs to see.

Question for the smart folks. When you answer "Yes" to the "is this a snapshot install" question, does this force a hardware reexamination and necessary config changes? I ask because all 3 of my boxes have slightly different hardware in terms of video and network...

[richb]

I enable plymouth after about a week after install. My Linux systems have been very reliable and therefore I have no need to see the scrolling messages.

[anticapitalista]

Question for the smart folks. When you answer "Yes" to the "is this a snapshot install" question, does this force a hardware reexamination and necessary config changes? I ask because all 3 of my boxes have slightly different hardware in terms of video and network...

No. It simply reuses your installed homeuser directory and its configuration files.

[lucky9]

I do not mind the messages but my wife is "different" when it comes to technology. I setup her computer with the bare minimum of icons, shortcuts, and menu entries as she only wants to see what see really needs to see.

You might take a look at the Plasma-Netbook choice in Synaptic. It's minimalist oriented. It uses some KDE. Not sure of how much.

[richb]

I do not mind the messages but my wife is "different" when it comes to technology. I setup her computer with the bare minimum of icons, shortcuts, and menu entries as she only wants to see what see really needs to see.

You might take a look at the Plasma-Netbook choice in Synaptic. It's minimalist oriented. It uses some KDE. Not sure of how much.

A whole bunch of it.

[BitJam]

Question for the smart folks. When you answer "Yes" to the "is this a snapshot install" question, does this force a hardware reexamination and necessary config changes? I ask because all 3 of my boxes have slightly different hardware in terms of video and network...

As I've said before the live-remaster solves this problem. It is less work than the snapshot route, and you end up with a customized LiveUSB that has all of the hardware detection of the original LiveUSB.

It is easier and it does what you want. The snapshot tool is for backing up a particular system. The Live-Remaster tool is for creating your own custom LiveUSB that you can use for installing on different systems.

AFAIK, very few (if any) other Linux distros offers this feature.

Edit: as --> of

[Stevo]

Yes, it's pretty amazing. I had installed and set up Plymouth on the LiveUSB, but it did not work when booting the Flash drive--not that it should, of course. But I did a true install this AM onto a small spare partition on my laptop (with btrfs and LZO compression), and the Plymouth splash screen came up on the first boot of the install. I then installed and tested the new compton package from the CR to see how it worked. I had to log off and in to get the full effects, for some reason, but it works very nicely after that.