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You can disagree with me all you like, nonetheless, FE "theory" still doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
I'm yet to see a flat Earth proponent provide any positive evidence for the flat fantasy.
It...

Stars rotating around a central point anti-clockwise in the northern hemisphere & clockwise in the southern hemisphere indicate that the Earth is a spheroidal body.
There is plenty more evidence to...

Hi there.
Install the deb file from the Skype website with gdebi or software centre, I think.

Hi Impavidus.
That's worked a treat.
I was able to boot the 104 kernel & do an update, normal boot resumed thereafter.
Thanks very much :)

Hi everybody.
I went to boot my Ubuntu 16.04.3 install a day or two ago & got the following error message, which I can't make heads or tails of.
Sorry it's a photo, but it seemed like the easiest...

Hi there.
Just my opinion:

1. Stick with the LTS (Long Term Support) release, which you have. (16.04 - that's the year & month of release by the way, so 17.10 is October 2017 release).
LTS...

Hi there.
Many years ago I had an issue with a Realtek chip on a second hand laptop. (Unfortunately I don't recall which chip it was now & laptop has long since been disposed of).
My cure was a...

Hi there.
If I recall correctly I got 2 x 2Gb DDR2 for £7 a stick (£14 total) in a second hand game/tech shop named CeX in the UK. It's a chain & they have all kinds of things, games, phones,...

I've a friend who worked in the NHS for many years.
At one point the trust he worked for weren't even using genuine Windows...
We laughed when the tribute to the NHS during the 2012 Olympic opening...

I've not played Goat Sim for a while - yes I actually bought it, & I bought copies for a couple of friends too.
It makes me smile.

I was complaining about how difficult it was to use the...

Hi there.
I have an XP 332 which was a little bit tricky initially.
This thread was really helpful:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2261230

It seems to be a case of installing drivers...

Hi sudodus & thanks for the info.
I don't want to come over as an ingrate but, I was hoping to use a 64 bit OS so I can install google chrome for Netflix.
Both boxes, although a little underpowered...

Hi DuckHook.
Thanks for the tips & info.

Currently the MSI works well with Lubuntu - I'm going to leave that alone for now.
I'm running the Lubuntu openbox session on the Presario with a couple...

Oh I see, my bad, sorry.
I don't think I can help you with the firefox thing. It's outside my sphere of knowledge.
Sory man, good luck.

Hi again.
Perhaps I'm not being clear.
I've never used Rufus & have no intention of using Rufus.
I make my install USBs using either Unetbootin (available on Windows) or Startup Disk Creator....

Hi everybody.
I've a couple of old/low end machines I'm trying to keep alive using minimal installs:
MSI U180 netbook: N2600 Atom CPU GMA3600 graphics, 2Gb RAM
&
Compaq CQ58 Presario: AMD E300...

Hi again.
I've no experience with Rufus, nor am I about to embark on that journey, sorry.
I generally use Unetbootin for creating Live USBs. (It will make a USB with persistence).
I also...

Hi again.
I have another machine - a Compaq CQ58 Presario (AMD E300 APU, dual core @1.6GHz, 4Gb Ram) which also runs Lubuntu 16.04.2.
I stopped using Firefox on that machine as it was pretty...

Hi again.
For me lscpu yields the same result as your second code box. (Showing 64 bit architecture).
Yes, 64 bit uses more resources, but as I'm not doing a gazillion things at once with my low...

I'm running 64 bit Lubuntu 16.04 on an MSI U180 with an N2600 Atom CPU, GMA3600 graphics, 2Gb RAM.
I do this because I want 64bit Google Chrome for Netflix.
It works just fine here. (Kinda - see...

I run 64 bit Lubuntu 16.04 on an MSI U180 netbook, 1.6GHz Atom CPU (dual core, 4 threads); 2Gb RAM upgraded from 1Gb at very little cost.
It runs very well. I can't ask much of the little machine...

Hi there.
I gave up in the end, mainly because I had another issue with my HP touchscreen laptop, not because I couldn't get Ubuntu installed. (My machine froze every time I tried to shut it down...

Hi there.
I believe it's a recognised bug.
I had this issue a few days ago &, luckily I guess, running

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
from a terminal fixed it...so far.

I know...

Hi there.
I recently had an issue with gnome software crashing. I believe it's installed by default in 16.04 rather than Ubuntu Software centre (center? /shivers at spelling).
I resolved my issue...

Looks like sudo apt-get upgrade has worked for me too.
Awesome :)