• Valex
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Topic: Today Crunchbang made me happy

Hello,

This is my first post here and I just want to share my experience.
I'm a windows user who decided to try Ubuntu a few years ago. From that moment, I had at home two computers and used both OS. However, one month ago, I started having problems with my Ubuntu machine so I decided to give a try to other distributions. I asked mr. google for light linux distributions as I thought the reason why I was having problems was the age of my old machine hardware.

Then, I discharged livecds for Linux Mint, Xubuntu, Kubuntu, and Lubuntu. I have spend one week trying hard to install any of those without success. Graphic problems with the livecds, Installation problems in those distros whose livecds were not a problem, problems partitioning my hd, etc. I was about to buy a new computer since I was convinced that the problem was the hardware (no idea if it was the hd, the graphic card, the dvd room, or a mixture of all of them)

Until I found #! and its livecd performed a clean, smooth installation without any problem.
My old Athlon PC with 256 mb ram is again alive.
Thanks CrunchBang....

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Re: Today Crunchbang made me happy

Welcome to the forums! smile

  • Registered: 2011-03-09
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Re: Today Crunchbang made me happy

welcome to the community Valex!

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  • dubois
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Re: Today Crunchbang made me happy

That's a good story.  No wonder you're happy.  big_smile

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Cary Grant
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  • Registered: 2011-10-13
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Re: Today Crunchbang made me happy

Valex wrote:

I discharged livecds for Linux Mint, Xubuntu, Kubuntu, and Lubuntu.

Welcome, I did that too, and I am sticking to #! ,too.

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  • pvsage
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Re: Today Crunchbang made me happy

I love the potential connotations of this thread's title. wink

Welcome to CrunchBang Asylum, Valex!

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  • From: Fayetteville, Arkansas
  • Registered: 2011-04-25
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Re: Today Crunchbang made me happy

One thing that may help with live cds, crunchbang or others, is to just log out and back in after installing the video drivers. That's usually enough to see what the drivers can do for you without restarting, which of course is just starting over with a live cd.
For some reason, I'm thinking Nvidia's proprietary drivers require a full reboot unfortunately.