=== An old entry lifted from my Wiki [0]  ===

AntiX

I'm testing a Live-USB Linux **AntiX** on a Lenovo laptop that has
always been sluggish running Windows 10 (and even running Debian
from the HDD).

I don't know if the issue is related to the performance (speed/RAM
etc) of the machine or to the HDD itself. To see how the machine
performs separately from the HDD I'll use AntiX for general web
browsing and email for a few days and see how I find it.
Persistence

I've set up static root persistence to allow me to install and
configure software, and save files etc. that remain after
rebooting. This required setting up persistence :

rootfs = 3GB homefs = 3GB

I installed rwho and rwhod to confirm new packages remained after
reboot. I needed to change the default Live-USB user passwords to
allow persistence to work - the first time I rebooted after setting
up persistence I was forced to do so. I also added a new user,
rather than stick with the Live-USB's default of demo

Browser

I then installed chromium as the preferred browser (instead of the
default seamonkey)

To make it the menu-selected choice of browser I struggled to see
how the menu item desktop-defaults-run -b (-b for browser) was made
to point to chromium until I found one way (using the GUI control
centre):

menu control centre preferred applications web-browser -->
/usr/share/application/chromium.desktop

chromium does not allow syncing to a google account any more,
despite appearing to let you sign in to Google to initiate the
sync.

I'll stick with chromium for this Live-USB version.

Email? : not sure I need to go this far, unless it turns out to be
much more user friendly than the Windows10 OS from the HDD.  Mouse
Touchpad

I hate “tap-click” on touchpads….

add :

# disable touchpad tapping for button1
synclient tapbutton1=-1 &

to ~/.desktop-session/startup Update

After a couple of hours of using AntiX for Websurfing, You Tube and
Dokuwiki editing I'm happy at the speedy response….

Let's see how it performs for other things ….

sudo apt-get install claws-mail

~/.bashrc

Change default prompt to a single line, rather than split across 2
lines: comment out default PS1 and copy/edit to look like :

PS1="$PURPLE\u$nc@$CYAN\H$nc:$GREEN\w$GREEN\$$nc "

if [ "$UID" = 0 ]; then
PS1="$red\u$nc@$red\H$nc:$CYAN\w$nc\\n$red#$nc " else
#    PS1="$PURPLE\u$nc@$CYAN\H$nc:$GREEN\w$nc\\n$GREEN\$$nc "
   PS1="$PURPLE\u$nc@$CYAN\H$nc:$GREEN\w$GREEN\$$nc " fi

Desktop Choice

I prefer fluxbox for low-resource linux machines, and I'm using the
zzz/fluxbox desktop which integrates the zzzFM file-manager. The
default single-click-opens-files is annoying and I found the way to
disable it is:

right-click on the ''File Manager'' desktop icon, select ''Desktop
Settings --> General'' tab and un-tick ''single-click open files''
and do the same on the ''Desktop'' tab.



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