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On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 8:09 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> Sorry I should have mentioned the laptop is an old cheep dell i3 w/ 2
> cores and 4 threads and 4Gb of RAM. I put Kubuntu 20.04 on it some time
> ago.  I do not recall when.  Maybe 6 months ago.
>
> Okay I see Discover->update.  Now I need to recover my password.
>
> Thanks Brian!!
> Keith
>
>
> On 2022-10-24 16:43, Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> > If it's really old, there might not be a good native one,  most
> > people just recommended to load synaptic.  More recently there is
> > Discover and muon.
> >
> > If this is the laptop that you haven't used in 6ish years, it may be
> > running kubuntu 16.04 and that is no longer supported, so your
> > upgrades will fail.
> > I'd recommend backing up your home directory and then doing a fresh
> > install.  If you haven't used Kubuntu since you put that laptop aside,
> > you're in for a real treat.  It's a lot leaner, faster, and just a joy
> > to use compared to years ago.  While KDE classically took a lot of
> > it's look and feel from windows you'll likely notice that it's come
> > back around and now Microsoft has been taking features from KDE.
> >
> > Brian Cluff
> >
> > On 10/24/22 15:34, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I pulled out an old laptop and it already has Kubuntu on it.  I want
> >> to do a package update and during my research it appears I need to
> >> do an apt update on the command line.  Is there not a desktop
> >> utility to do this?  Not afraid of the command line just want to
> >> learn how to run a desktop system.
> >>
> >> Thanks!!
> >> Keith
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