I installed Lubuntu on a 2015 MacBook Pro 13’ a few days ago and for some reason the screen scaling is way too small to realistically use. I tried to change it via the display settings but there appears to be no option to change it, I also looked for a command to change it online but couldn’t find one. Does anyone know how I could make the scaling bigger? I run Lubuntu on a 2010 white MacBook and that worked without issue, though it has a different screen which may explain.

I will also add that I have very little Linux experience so if this a very simple thing to fix and I look stupid this is why lol

I tried to install it on a fresh 256GB SATA SSD.

I tried twice, both times it was getting stuck at 34.

Re-flashed(Rufus) the iso twice on the USB stick, but still the same results.

How to get past this point?

Update: tried Ventoy and still getting stuck at 34.

I have Lubuntu 24.04.5 on an older thinkpad. I get Lubuntu updates maybe once every other day. Sometimes twice a day. After this version of Lubuntu is no longer supported, April 2027. What should I do? I assume I won't get any updates at that point. This is an older laptop, Lenovo E550, that may not have enough system resources for the next version of Lubuntu. I maxed out the ram and installed a SSD already. Should I look at OpenBSD running Calm Windows Manager? Slackware?

Description: Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS Release: 24.04 Codename: noble

I want to have a plan but I'm not sure which direction to go. I just read and write watch a youtube video occasionally. No games, no music.

I've been trying to install Lubuntu on my Lenovo Chromebook 300e 2nd Gen AST (24.04), but when I hit the install button and entered the specifications, it was not able to install. Does anyone know what to do?

I found a blog post that Ubuntu stopped being the light weight distro. I would like to know your experience.Read here

Hi, is it possible to change the boot screen on that one, i don't like the new boot screen with the bird! XD

Just installed the latest Lubuntu on a Toshiba Satellite A135 and the Play/pause and Stop buttons work in VLC but both the previous and next track skip buttons just make it restart the current track. I've not tried them in another media player.

I installed playerctl and configured both buttons in shortcut keys but VLC ignores those settings. In VLC's hotkeys setup, the global settings don't see them.

I'd like to have these buttons work with VLC and any other media player.

Then there's the homepage and media player launch buttons. I'd like the homepage button to launch firefox and the media player button to (for now) launch VLC.

Would be nice to have a GUI app that make setting these up easy, taking care of all the configuration in the background.

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.

(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?