Lubuntu 12.10 is very touchy

[scottie5256]

I had to reinstall 3 times before I finaly accepted that the updaters are faulty except for the apt-get update in terminal. Lubuntu 12.10 is very slow on my system Powermac G4 "sawtooth" AGP 450mghz single cpu and 512mb RAM. Lubuntu Softway center doesn't work at all and Synaptic is iffy. Woe betide those of us new users if we want to toss out Firefox,and the offered apps and use other choices. In this instance Lubuntu balks and I get the manually run dpkg ~config~~a. DUH! Us Newbies go uh whaaa? I don't like Audacious, GNOME Mplayer. I DO like Banshee and VLC, but I get no audio if I attempt to USE them. But then again I had trouble with Lubuntu 12.10 when I installed it on a PC machine of mine. Methinks I'll trundle off into YDL land Toodle-oo, y'all. Disgusted in texas!!

[matt_symes]

Not a support question so thread moved to Ubuntu, Linux and OS Chat.

[thatguruguy]

I had to reinstall 3 times before I finaly accepted that the updaters are faulty except for the apt-get update in terminal. Lubuntu 12.10 is very slow on my system Powermac G4 "sawtooth" AGP 450mghz single cpu and 512mb RAM. Lubuntu Softway center doesn't work at all and Synaptic is iffy. Woe betide those of us new users if we want to toss out Firefox,and the offered apps and use other choices. In this instance Lubuntu balks and I get the manually run dpkg ~config~~a. DUH! Us Newbies go uh whaaa? I don't like Audacious, GNOME Mplayer. I DO like Banshee and VLC, but I get no audio if I attempt to USE them. But then again I had trouble with Lubuntu 12.10 when I installed it on a PC machine of mine. Methinks I'll trundle off into YDL land Toodle-oo, y'all. Disgusted in texas!!

Your title is misleading. It should have been "Lubuntu is very touchy on my 10 year old powerpc-based Apple computer that uses a CPU that isn't even supported at all by Apple anymore, so I should be amazed that I can find anything to run on it at all." Or something like that.

I think the problems may be more hardware-related than software-related.

EDIT: Oops, sorry. I was wrong. It's not 10 year old hardware, it's 14 year old hardware. Seriously. It's time to upgrade.

[Sam Mills]

Your title is misleading. It should have been "Lubuntu is very touchy on my 10 year old powerpc-based Apple computer that uses a CPU that isn't even supported at all by Apple anymore, so I should be amazed that I can find anything to run on it at all." Or something like that.

I think the problems may be more hardware-related than software-related.

EDIT: Oops, sorry. I was wrong. It's not 10 year old hardware, it's 14 year old hardware. Seriously. It's time to upgrade.
I agree. Even though Lubuntu is lightweight, it's not really meant for ancient hardware. The OP would be better off using puppy linux. And I believe there is a version that is made specifically for older hardware. It's like trying to run windows xp on a computer made in 1993. Sure it will work, (kind of) but not very well.