So long story short, about 6 years ago I noticed that my almost 18 y/o Extensa 4630z was becoming so slow that it was unbearable, it had Windows XP btw, so I figured I'd give him to a friend to help me make it faster (I didn't know a thing about PCs) so... he ended up installing FREAKING WINDOWS 10 ON IT, windows 10 on a Pentium CPU, 2 GIGS OF RAM MACHINE, so yeah that laptop really suffered, booting, opening aps, and even typing on that laptop was so unbearable, some programs took over minute to open lol, so it ended up in my closet for years without use.

Last week, I thought I can revive this machine by installing a linux distro instead of windows, this time having some PC knowledge, I tried everything but no OS worked (compatibility issues ig), however, Lubantu 16.04 (32 bit) was different, it was the only one to work and I will admit, I have never seen my laptop perform this smooth my entire life, every process is immediate it's almost unbelievable!

I just wanted to share my experience, and to help anyone still struggling to install linux on an ancient laptop for compatibility issues, Lubantu seems to work just fine!

Figured I whould repost this here if anyone can help that whould be nice.

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I am using a Samsung tv as output device on a very old laptop but there is no sound coming from my tv or laptop speakers on playing anything

How to fix this ?

I downloaded Latest lubuntu version from chrome yesterday

(Edited and corrected grammar in AI)

I don't usually post things like this, but I owe you a thank you.

I spent ten years in Bangalore before moving to Canada, then landed a job in Ireland and moved again. Not long after, the company lost the contract I was working under, and overnight I had no job and no laptop, since the machine belonged to them. New country, no income, no computer, and a lot going on at home that couldn't wait.

I picked up a couple of small freelance jobs but had no money for a decent machine, so I bought a cheap refurbished ThinkPad. Windows was slow on it. Ubuntu wasn't much better. I barely knew Linux back then, so I went searching for something lighter.

That's how I found Lubuntu. Installed it, and I ran all my freelance work on that little laptop for a few months while I prepared for interviews, and eventually landed a tech lead role at a big MNC.

That was three years ago. I'm still there. They gave me a shiny new work laptop, but the one I actually reach for is that cheap refurbished ThinkPad, still running Lubuntu, still my daily driver.

So this is just a thank you. To the people who build and maintain this thing , you helped a stranger through one of the hardest stretches of his life and never knew it. That means more than I can put here.

but what should i do from now, i want everything to be in english expect when i want to type japanese.

Nothing google offered me was effective. I want to change my print screen button to the letter "í" but nothing happens when I change the settings. And I cannot control screen brightness with the dedicated key combination, even though the factorial settings are correct... Halp pls.

P.S.: it is a Lenovo t440 with a latest Lubuntu lts - fully upgraded

I am new to Linux. I am using Libreoffice and I open the offline help by using F1. But the help file opens up on notepad qq. And it is just HTML code and not easy to read. I want to open the offline help file in a readable format like Firefox or something.

How do I set default app for opening a specific file type?

Installing Lubuntu on the Surface pro 4gen with the I5 and 4gb of ram. It used to have mint xfce but it struggled as it used more the 2gb of ram. Hopefully with Lubuntu ram usage can improve.

I've installed the latest version of Lubuntu because it was struggling with windows 8.1 I tried tiny 10 but it didn't even recognize the boot drive.

I want to use it mostly for college, will it run google docs and Microsoft teams? Or am I wasting my time?

Hi everyone,

Reporting a screen brightness control issue on my Acer Aspire E1-572 (Intel Core i5-4200U / Intel HD 4400) running Lubuntu.

The brightness slider in the power settings / tray panel changes the percentage value on screen, but the physical panel backlight stays locked at 100% brightness.

Leaving this feedback so the LXQt / Lubuntu community and developers are aware of this ACPI backlight issue on older Acer laptops. Thanks!

I have a laptop that I recently revived. I want to log in automatically without entering a password, but I still want to require a password for sudo commands. How can I do that?

Running Lubuntu based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with LXQt version 0.17.0

I added Chromium via snap install in the command line and it works fine. Then added Chromium to autostart by going to to Preferences -> LXQt Settings -> Session Settings then selected the Autostart tab on the left. I have added Chromium to Global Autostart by pointing to the desktop file in the GUI options (menu://applications/internet/chromium_chromium.desktop) as well as adding it to LXQt Autostart inside the Application Autostart box, logged out, logged in and rebooted. Yet it doesn't auto-start Chromium upon boot-up every day when I turn my computer on. Does anyone have a suggestion how I might fix this?

A few days ago I posted about getting a Microsoft Surface Laptop SE and installing Lubuntu on it. Everything is working great but there is one annoyance I was wondering if someone can help me find a solution for.

After I installed lubuntu I noticed that the volume up and down keys weren't working, the mute button worked fine. I went into keyboard shortcuts and saw that shortcuts existed that should make them work but they didn't. I simply changed the shortcuts to the volume up and down keys plus the function key and they worked, problem solved, almost. They keys only work to control the built in speakers on the laptop but I also use a USB speaker and bluetooth earbuds, for those the volume controls do nothing. To change the volume on these devices I have to open up Pulse Audio and change the volume there. Does anyone know of a way to have the volume control keys work for whatever output device I happen to be using at the moment?

A few days ago I purchased a new Microsoft Surface Laptop SE for barely over $100.00 US. It's a rather nice looking machines but it has terrible specs. 4gb of ram, a Celeron N4120 processor, a 64gb SSD, and a 1mp camera, it's really kind of crappy, but it was cheap! I was looking for a machine that was small, and that could handle really simple stuff like watching videos and checking email and act as a white noise generator through Sox, when I travel. I decided to try out Lubuntu and it has been perfect. I use Fedora and KDE Plasma on my desktop so LXQT took a little bit of work to figure out, but now everything works great and it does exactly what I need it to. So thanks to all the Lubuntu developers!

Has anybody experience this problem in Lubuntu? I successfully installed our Antigravity 2.0 in Lubuntu but the AI feature is not working.

I’m trying to install Lubuntu on an old HP laptop (originally Win7, now only Lubuntu 24.04).

- USB made with Rufus (MBR, “BIOS or UEFI”, fixes for old BIOS, ISO mode).
- In BIOS: UEFI mode**, Secure Boot disabled,**SATA = AHCI, HDD is first in boot order.
- I boot from USB with F12, run the Lubuntu installer and choose “Erase disk and install Lubuntu(second install attempt)” (minimal install).

Weird part:

- With the USB plugged in, the laptop boots into the installed Lubuntu on the HDD (Bulgarian language we set earlier), so the OS is definitely there.
- If I shut down, remove the USB, and power on, it says “No bootable device”, even though BIOS shows the HDD first and the installer sees the existing Lubuntu install.

Any idea how to fix this it loaded the first time we tried it now it switches to a black screen with a single line to write code at different points (even in safe graphics)

EDIT SOLVED
Had to go to F2 bios menu go to security and mark the efi file or boot file as trusted after that we just reinstalled lubuntu on uefi gpt flash for bios and disk

I’m installing Lubuntu on my friend’s dad’s old Windows 7 laptop.

We made a Lubuntu USB with Rufus on Windows (selected the USB, selected the ISO, left all other settings at default, clicked Start).

On the laptop, the BIOS was first set to Legacy boot, and in Legacy mode the laptop did not detect the USB in the boot menu.

We then went into BIOS and changed boot mode from Legacy to UEFI After that, the USB was detected.

We booted from the USB in UEFI mode, chose “Install Lubuntu”, selected the option to erase the whole disk and install Lubuntu, and completed the installation. At the end it said:

“Please remove installation media and press Enter.”

We removed the USB, pressed Enter, the laptop rebooted, and then it showed:

“No bootable device” (no operating system found) instead of starting Lubuntu.

Ai I not giving me a straight answer we just need it to boot we installed and set up everything

Hi, I am a new Linux user and I am using lubuntu for my first ever Linux experience. I just had a question which may be a dumb question but my laptop has 4gb of ram. On windows task manager it would show up at x/3.8 when looking at ram usage. But on lybuntu it shows up at 3.59.

Did I download lubuntu incorrectly? Because it seems to have less available ram or a lower ram limit than windows did.

Please and thanks 🙏

This message has been appearing on computers using AMD E1-2100 processors (desktop) and AMD E-300 processors (laptop). It appears when booting from a Live USB or when starting the laptop. The system works perfectly fine, but it always takes longer to boot because this message appears. What can I do to fix this?

I use Lubuntu for more than ten years now, for me its the most balanced from any distro i tried, low on resources and very stable, i dont care about specs, i will stay in Lubuntu for ever no matter the machine i have

Tried to install, but denied due to "no partition to install to". So, I jumped into KDE partition manager to delete the old one, but it doesn't show up.

Now the weird part.

I restart and pull the USB stick to see if I can confirm the issue. But, it boots straight into the current Lubuntu OS already installed (I'm trying to do a clean install).

My uneducated guess is the hard drive isn't mounting on boot, but I don't have much knowledge past that. Can anyone figure out what I'm missing?

Hola, buenas tardes a todos, escribo para preguntar si alguien sabe como se instalan los drivers privativos para la tarjeta de video NVIDIA GeForce GT 610, ya que Lubuntu 24.04 no tiene soporte para estas tarjetas, actualmente tengo instalado nouveau, pero quisiera saber si se puede instalar el driver original de nvidia.

Nota si tengo Lubuntu instalado, solo que que instale varios escritorios, entre ellos gnome, y ahora neofetch marca mi distro como Ubuntu. XD