My brother Jim finally got fed up with his Windows computers getting attacked by viruses. So, his son recently installed PCLinuxOS to his Netbook.
The exact version Mike installed was the newest PCLinuxOS featuring the LXDE desktop Environment. If you have a netbook, PCLinuxOS LXDE is the perfect choice.
You can get it here.
Neal and his team at PCLinuxOS really did a superlative job. The Desktop is fast, light, and feature rich. And it’s quite familiar. If you’re coming over from Windows, you’ll have no problem finding your way around the desktop.
I then took the Netbook (an Asus H1000) for a test drive and did some routine updates. Everything runs.
I think Jim is going to really enjoy using Linux. It’s certainly going to be much more stable and secure than Windows.
And he’ll discover the many reasons why Linux is so much better than Windows.
There are about 101 reasons why Linux is better than Windows. If you’ve never seen it before, here are the 101 reasons why Linux is better than Windows. Read ’em, be inspired, then get Linux.
For best results with LXDE on a netbook, may I make the following suggestions:
gnome-power-manager – This will handle Power Saving on any GTK2 desktop, it does not need loads of gnome dependencies fortunately.
acme – ditto extended keys – both g-p-m and acme can be set to run on startup in LXDE using the LXDE control centre.
alsamixergui – because there isn’t a native “mixer” control in LXDE.
cpufreq – with instruction from Texstar on the PCLOS website, to add CPU frequency scaling, for futher power saving when running on battery. http://www.pclinuxos.com/?p=1310
gcalctool – a gtk calculator, again, it doesn’t pull in loads of gnome stuff!
chromium-browser – because it makes better use of screen estate on a small machine than firefox.
pidgin / skype – because they are what the average netbook is all about.
I have set up my Samsung NC10 this way, not surprisingly it runs great. I did the same setup on an Asus eeePC900 for my friend, and it goes faster than it ever did, no sound distortion on Skype which is amazing really because it broke up pretty bad on KDE. There’s no room for a swap partition on one of these, so you have to avoid memory overloads at all costs, and LXDE does the trick.
Wow! Thank you so much!:) Will pass these along!
Thank you davecs, I will use it in a remaster for a friend