acer install
4 messages · started by Daniel Thomas on Feb 09, 2020
acer install
From Daniel Thomas · Feb 09, 2020
I’m back on my acer install problem.
I did figure out how to get it to boot and the Lubuntu 19.10 appears to play OK.
Two issues before I proceed:
1. reading on-line the advice (for a newbie such as I) is to stay away from 19.10 and use 18.04 instead – primarily for stability & support. Given I really only want to use it for internet access (searching, streaming, etc) and occasional writing “simple” seems to make sense for me on this machine. Any comments?
2. acer’s Window problem was that its 16 GB drive, which was mostly gobbled up by Win10, did not have enough room to update the OS so I looked to Linux for a “smaller” OS. But on-line articles state that minimum for Ubuntu is 25 GB. One user claimed his version of Ubuntu installed in 16.04 GB and suggested Lubuntu would take less but did not state how much less. Of course, if a version would load leaving enough free, I could remove the automatically installed applications that I don’t plan to use to free up more space but how much more? And, how much free space do I need for system logs, future updates, etc? Another article claimed other Linux versions can install in less than 8 GB but named no names! Any suggestions?
Daniel Thomas
acer install
From Daniel Thomas · Feb 09, 2020
I’m back on my acer install problem.
I did figure out how to get it to boot and the Lubuntu 19.10 appears to play OK.
Two issues before I proceed:
1. reading on-line the advice (for a newbie such as I) is to stay away from 19.10 and use 18.04 instead – primarily for stability & support. Given I really only want to use it for internet access (searching, streaming, etc) and occasional writing “simple” seems to make sense for me on this machine. Any comments?
2. acer’s Window problem was that its 16 GB drive, which was mostly gobbled up by Win10, did not have enough room to update the OS so I looked to Linux for a “smaller” OS. But on-line articles state that minimum for Ubuntu is 25 GB. One user claimed his version of Ubuntu installed in 16.04 GB and suggested Lubuntu would take less but did not state how much less. Of course, if a version would load leaving enough free, I could remove the automatically installed applications that I don’t plan to use to free up more space but how much more? And, how much free space do I need for system logs, future updates, etc? Another article claimed other Linux versions can install in less than 8 GB but named no names! Any suggestions?
Daniel Thomas
Re: acer install
From Devi Garcia · Feb 09, 2020
I’m back on my acer install problem. I did figure out how to get it to boot and the Lubuntu 19.10 appears to play OK. Two issues before I proceed:
I’m back on my acer install problem.
I did figure out how to get it to boot and the Lubuntu 19.10 appears to play OK.
Two issues before I proceed:
1. reading on-line the advice (for a newbie such as I) is to stay away from 19.10 and use 18.04 instead – primarily for stability & support. Given I really only want to use it for internet access (searching, streaming, etc) and occasional writing “simple” seems to make sense for me on this machine. Any comments?
2. acer’s Window problem was that its 16 GB drive, which was mostly gobbled up by Win10, did not have enough room to update the OS so I looked to Linux for a “smaller” OS. But on-line articles state that minimum for Ubuntu is 25 GB. One user claimed his version of Ubuntu installed in 16.04 GB and suggested Lubuntu would take less but did not state how much less. Of course, if a version would load leaving enough free, I could remove the automatically installed applications that I don’t plan to use to free up more space but how much more? And, how much free space do I need for system logs, future updates, etc? Another article claimed other Linux versions can install in less than 8 GB but named no names! Any suggestions?
Daniel Thomas
Re: acer install
From Rex Bouwense · Feb 10, 2020
We have installed both Lubuntu and Xubuntu on very small hard drives. The smallest was 9.1 GB and there was plenty of room to update, create documents, and save photos and music. Also something else that is relevant, a Linux distribution does not grow when there are updates as a Microsoft Windows does. If you start with an installation that takes up roughly 5-8 Gbs of space on your hard drive, it is very likely that two years hence that same OS will still be basically the same size. When it updates it replaces the old code with new code one line at a time. None of the old code is saved (with the exception of kernels which have to be deleted manually - but a kernel is is only 68 Mbs and it is the guy that starts everything and tells everything else what to do.
Devi also mentioned Bodhi Linux and Linux Lite OS. If you are not satisfied with either Lubuntu or Xubuntu, they are excellent choices. One additional operating system that he did not mention is Trisquel, https://trisquel.info/. It is composed of entirely free and open source software.
Rex
The more “bare” Linux distros they mentioned are more for advanced users as they’d come with no GUI/DE in most cases and if they did come with a come with a DE/GUI the OS
The more “bare” Linux distros they mentioned are more for advanced users as they’d come with no GUI/DE in most cases and if they did come with a come with a DE/GUI the OS itself would be mostly Terminal/CLI based commands.. Lubuntu or Xubuntu should be good for light distros.. also ishttps://www.bodhilinux.com orhttps://www.linuxliteos.com the thing with Linux versus windows is sometimes it requires a lot of legwork(research) to find what you want versus every being out there in common knowledge.. Linux is a vast jungle of knowledge...
On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 12:53 PM Daniel Thomas <danjant@cableone.net> wrote:
I’m back on my acer install problem.
I did figure out how to get it to boot and the Lubuntu 19.10 appears to play OK.
Two issues before I proceed:
1. reading on-line the advice (for a newbie such as I) is to stay away from 19.10 and use 18.04 instead – primarily for stability & support. Given I really only want to use it for internet access (searching, streaming, etc) and occasional writing “simple” seems to make sense for me on this machine. Any comments?
2. acer’s Window problem was that its 16 GB drive, which was mostly gobbled up by Win10, did not have enough room to update the OS so I looked to Linux for a “smaller” OS. But on-line articles state that minimum for Ubuntu is 25 GB. One user claimed his version of Ubuntu installed in 16.04 GB and suggested Lubuntu would take less but did not state how much less. Of course, if a version would load leaving enough free, I could remove the automatically installed applications that I don’t plan to use to free up more space but how much more? And, how much free space do I need for system logs, future updates, etc? Another article claimed other Linux versions can install in less than 8 GB but named no names! Any suggestions?
Daniel Thomas