Folks: This might be a no-brainer if I was booted up in linux, but I'm not . . . perhaps a month or so back I was trying to follow someone's instructions about doing a "persistent live USB install" . . . but doing it on an external HD thru my iBook . . . and there was some issue with the installer and it lunched my Lu 14.04 install on my iBook. So I took that opportunity to install the new Ubuntu MATE for ppc OS because I enjoy the floating feet screensaver . . . and it's a very nice system, but perhaps it's too much system for my 933 MHz processor with 560? MB RAM . . . as the fan blows constantly while typing emails in Gmail, and/or forums with smilies. I like a quiet computer and so far OSX 10.4 runs the quietest of any, and Lu 14.04 was in the middle, if it had to "think" about something the fan would start, but with MATE if the computer even looks at thinking about something . . . fan is blowing, even when the computer goes into "suspend" and the screensaver starts up . . . . Seems like both Ubuntu & MATE are "too rich" for the iBooks blood. or at least the price in noise is too much for me?
So, I'm thinking about whether I could either "rm" or use synaptic to remove, what would it be, "unity" and "MATE" and then add LXDE or XFCE4 . . . or add them first and then remove the U-MATE and see if I can get back to a basic system w/o doing another re-install and xorg.conf file and adding radeon.agp to yaboot etc. Do-able? Or too many dependencies? Or, doing that would have to be done in TTY console if I'm logged into the U-MATE? So, add LXDE, log into it, and then try to remove the U-MATE stuff? And that would get me back to the "core" system, more or less, with the basic lighter DE?? Easy-peasy or messed up? F
-- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
