I'm here in an old Lenovo laptop that was given to my family for free. It was a Windows XP machine trashed by viruses that the people got sick of fooling with, so they gave it to us and bought a new machine. I originally put Kubuntu 13.10 on it, which ran great except that the wireless card would not work. I then tried with Lubuntu. No luck. I was using instructions for Ubuntu 12.10 because it's all I could find. So that's why Ubuntu 12.10 is on this thing, even though I don't like the interface of this distro. The idea was to troubleshoot the wireless networking problems the the same distro that the instructions I found online were for.
I was successful. This thing is finally connected wirelessly after much troubleshooting. I'm happy, but this thing still has the yucky Ubuntu interface that I don't like and it isn't the latest version.
Next step: Get this OS up to date and convert it into Kubuntu, the interface that is so much easier to work with than regular Ubuntu IMO. I did find this link about it:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/30628...form-of-ubuntu
It suggests doing this at the command line:
Is that it? Is it that simple to convert Ubuntu into Kubuntu? Is there anything else I need to know about or do? Also, should I run the upgrade command in Ubuntu first, bringing it up to Ubuntu 13.10 first? Or should I Kubuntuize first and then run an upgrade?
I appreciate any suggestions. Thanks.
I was successful. This thing is finally connected wirelessly after much troubleshooting. I'm happy, but this thing still has the yucky Ubuntu interface that I don't like and it isn't the latest version.
Next step: Get this OS up to date and convert it into Kubuntu, the interface that is so much easier to work with than regular Ubuntu IMO. I did find this link about it:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/30628...form-of-ubuntu
It suggests doing this at the command line:
Code:
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
I appreciate any suggestions. Thanks.
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