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I have attempted to install Ubuntu on my old Laptop for enhanced utility.

  • I have cleared the Hard Drive as there is no operating system on it.
  • I have installed Ubuntu 14.10 and it was successful

However, that is where the good points end. As soon as the installation completed, the screen went black with roughly 3 lines of white text and the CD ROM opened. Nothing else happened. There was no text asking me to restart or press enter.

I pressed enter and it loaded fine. I logged in however, and there was no taskbar on the left and no status bar at the top of the screen. I am also certain that the Background image had not loaded properly. I attempted to follow some instructions on the internet and install CCSM in the CTRL+Alt+F1 terminal and it failed to download. I also received a message about an update and I attempted to install but that also failed. Have I done something wrong? could anyone give me some guidance?

For reference, the laptop I am trying to install Ubuntu on is an Acer Aspire 5535.

Thanks for reading. I hope for a reply soon.

Michael Lindman
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The_Mann
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I don't know if the laptop can handle unity, it's very demanding, perhaps you should try one of the various Ubuntu based "distros".

The lightest distro is Lubuntu - you can run this on anything almost but it is no frills and looks like Windows 95, it uses the Lxde desktop.

Next is Xubuntu - This should run well on your laptop and has much more fancy bits and extras, it is inline with windows 7 with the areo effect off (basic theme with no transparancy), it uses the xfce desk top.

There is also the upcoming Ubuntu Mate - It is not out yet but you can get a beta and it will up[date later this month, this will run well and is designed to emulate the old Gnome 2 desktop.

If you are just trying distros for fun there is Gnome and Kubuntu but they are high end like Unity.

All these distros are Ubuntu and use official packages and sources and are supported on this forum.

As well as all that there are also Ubuntu forks like, Mint and Elementary OS but these are doing there own thing with Ubuntu and may work a bit diffrent.

Finaly there are hundreds of diffrent Linux distros HERE.

So don't be dishartend by Ubuntu not working there are loads to choose for.

PS With regaurds to KXstudio it is based on Ubuntu (but forked) and is for professional music production. It comes with LOADS of free software, looks nice and uses XFCE like Xubuntu. If thats what you want go for it BUT for an every day desktop user no, it is not for that and they proberly won''t support those features.

I would recommend Xubuntu then when you have installed

sudo apt-get install audacity ubuntu-restricted-extras

Should work great.

Mark Kirby
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Rewrite the image to your USB stick / a different USB stick and try it again.

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