newbie seeking advice

[SteveSpillage]

Cheers guys, it's very encouraging that you all seem to be saying the same sort of thing. I had read on other sites that the graphics/sound couldn't be changed but wanted to make sure, I'll go for a 2 gb RAM upgrade and have a read up on swapping HDD for SSD. 
(Sorry, one of the big problems I have is with video/audio. On a bad day you tube is just a bunch of stills in between buffering and the audio can be just as laggy with it.)

[torreydale]

@SteveSpillage

Yeah, I figured YouTube would be a problem with this system.  I hate to encourage a newbie to install a program outside of the vetted repositories, but in this case you might want to try installing Minitube as a workaround.  The version in the repository is old and not working.  I've found downloading the *.deb file from their website does the trick for me.

flavio.tordini.org/minitube

Maybe this will allow you to view YouTube better.


P.S.  Before installing Minitube, you might also want to consider this thread:  https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/insta...-machines/

P.S.S.  Once you get the machine to 2GB of RAM, you might also want to see how YouTube performs using Google Chrome.  You can install it via Menu->System->Lite Software.

[torreydale]

I don't want to assume.  Did you also try the Additional Drivers option?  Menu->Settings->Install Drivers.  Does the Additional Drivers tab provide you any other options?

[Wirezfree]

@ stevespillage

Is your broadband speed O.K..??  http://www.speedtest.net/

To get a feel for your graphics there are a few tests:
glxgears, not sure if this is standard, open a terminal and type

Code:

glxgears

if it's not there
Go to Menu > System > Install/Remove S/W and search for mesa-utils and install it, try the above again, to stop it ctrl-c in the terminal window.

Also,
You can try glmark2
open a terminal and type

Code:

sudo apt-get install glmark2

then type

Code:

glmark2

Let it run, it may fail if graphics not up to snuff,
Otherwise, from what I read, 500+ gives reasonable performance for day to day normal use, high end cards can be 1000's

If you want to take this further it maybe better to open new thread in: Hardware > Video Cards
Save hogging the "Introductions"

[paul1149]

For youtube, other possibilities would be to try a different browser, and to turn the hardware acceleration option off. Also, html5 may work better than straight flash.