lubuntu and u.

i had a windows 8.1 pc for a good decade. my first pc, which i used a lot for reading about tech. it was from lenovo, i3, it was this pic for me.

windows 8.1 was such a weird aesthetic, it was very niche, i would rarely find anyone with a win 8.1, in my village everyone had a windows 7, xp or the classy win 10.

i had downloaded firefox and thought i was different (which i was) in a special way. FOSS, torrents, blockchain was very interesting for me. all this was running smooth and good till start of 2023, slowly some apps i used daily stopped supporting win 8.1, i was left with no option but to upgrade to windows 10, i had tried that previously but at that time windows 10 used to be bought on a CD. And I wasnt much of a pirate myself. now it was free for anyone to download. but i was more attracted towards linux distros. the first encounter i ever had with linux was because of a penguin. Tux Paint. that name would ring a bell if you studied ‘Computer’ as a subject in 5th grade. Tux Paint was the Scratch of drawing. Scratch and Tux Paint both brew a lot of creativity in me. although i forgot the syntax of scratch :\

Linux was talked by mostly the adults who were into hacking, and some of my classmates were ethical larpers hackers apparently. so i started my immigration research, i only knew about a few distros. Ubuntu, Kali Linux, Fedora, and these were supporting my PC quite well. i read on reddit that Lubuntu is a distro which is basically lightweight ubuntu. well its literally based on ubuntu and made for lightweight systems. it uses lxQt (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment Qt (qt stands for you ;)) instead of GNOME. lxQt uses significantly less ram.

Lubuntu is actually crazy on RAM, it can run on a gb of ram and 8 gb of disk memory. it’s light as a feather. for comparison raspberry pi OS (cmd) requires 512mb of RAM. i had struck a goldmine. i learned the basic stuff, how to install apps on terminal, i loved this as there’s not a single configuration we gotta do other than installing. i decided its a do or die and drafted my photos from the pendrive to cloud, and installed rufus, installed the iso on my pendrive. i dual booted it at first, and i was always prompted into two windows. during this setup i followed guides on reddit.

later on i made a rookie mistake, i asked a LLM without any context, on how to remove the dual boot screen. well, lets just say my windows was completely bricked, but i was able to single boot tho, and retrieve my data. this was my cannon event on letting an LLM control me. always review the code/script it gives you and have some searches on it. the best way i think to review the code is to leave some fun comments into it. understand it properly and move forward.

sudo means super user do. i didnt know this until recently.

thanks for reading!