Before Linux Lite

[Nyto]

I have been away from Linux for almost 10 years. The last distro I used was Freespire.

In the old days laptops would never last but now I have an 8 year old Acer 10 inch that works fine but not with Windows.

Ah, Freespire, the former Linspire from the former Lindows.
Remember Lindows?  It was doing OK, until Microsuck sued the sh*t out of them   .."because it was misleading potential customers to believe they were getting Windoze XD
...sometimes judges are sooo stupid...

[TheDead]

Wonder if they called it something else like Lindoors, Lindoze or "This is not your average Mucrosuck OS!", would it have went to court?
To the Time Machine, Doctor!

Cheers!

[kpanic]

I guess I'm an ol'-school Linux user (My late father actually knew Linus Torwald's mother, not that it has to do with anything else, than the fact that Helsinki is a small city), I began installing some old Red Hat distro around ~96-97. Then I began to use SuSE Linux - and I still don't know why! However, I used it about 20 years or so until the openSUSE distro became practically unusable this year - it has been long time coming though.

So, I began to search for a lighter and more consistent distro for personal use and after testing a couple of Ubuntu flavors, I found this one. And man, I love it! No bells and whistles, just everything you need - and of course the huge repository full of software. Super fast, well polished and very consistent Linux Distribution.
As a professional System Administrator since year 2000, I give this distro 9.5 out of 10

[mdiemer]

My first Linux was Ubuntu 13.10. Then I tried Mint. Then Zorin, Ubuntu Mate, LXLE, Solus, MX, Manjaro, Deepin, elementary, Fedora, Ubuntu Budgie, and some others I can't remember. Currently, I have Linux Lite on one drive, Windows 7 on another, and True OS (BSD) on another. Another computer has Windows 7 Pro but that is my music machine. My wife has W7 on a Dell laptop (both of my computers are desktops). and we have an old Gateway with windows 98 that never gets used and was never online.

Many of the above systems are not stable on my Gateway GT5656. Manjaro and any of the Ubuntus work well, besides Linux Lite. Zorin and Solus I really liked, but they always break down on me. Mint just bores me for some reason. I settled on Linux Lite because of the stability, intuitiveness and easy transition from Windows. This is important because I want to put Linux on my wife's laptop as a dual boot. I think LL will be easy for her to learn. And I will have exactly the same thing on mine, so I'll be able to take care of hers more easily. I'm hoping my distro-hopping days are over, at least for awhile. The BSD I just fool around with. You can learn a lot about computers with it. It's a unix system, kind of in-between unix and linux. Many of the commands are the same. But it's a challenge, no doubt about it.