{"id":2893,"date":"2014-05-02T18:47:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T10:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alfredivy.per.sg\/blogger\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2014-05-02T18:49:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T10:49:11","slug":"using-lubuntu-daily-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2014\/05\/using-lubuntu-daily-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Lubuntu as a daily driver."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous post, I wrote about putting Lubuntu on my Compaq Presario notebook. \u00a0Now that is some tweaked (turn off LCD screen, use external monitor), I am trying to keep it as a daily driver.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Office. \u00a0I thought I could just use what was packaged. \u00a0My daughter wanted to do a presentation and there were some old slides in PowerPoint. \u00a0So I installed LibreOffice. \u00a0It looks complete with all the features of a productivity suite. \u00a0I need to explore it further.<\/p>\n<p>Lubuntu reads the old Windows XP partition and thumbdrives properly. \u00a0The strange thing is filenames are case insensitive! \u00a0I have not seen this since the days of MS DOS! \u00a0I kept trying to change case in filenames and got nowhere. \u00a0I might dig around and throw the case sensitive switch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2014\/04\/windows-xp-lubuntu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Windows XP and Lubuntu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous post, I wrote about putting Lubuntu on my Compaq Presario notebook. \u00a0Now that is some tweaked (turn off LCD screen, use external monitor), I am trying to keep it as a daily driver. Microsoft Office. \u00a0I thought&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,124,73],"tags":[350],"class_list":["post-2893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-linux-and-unix","category-windows","tag-libreoffice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2895,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions\/2895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}