I have been using UBuntu 18.04 for last few months. The default Desktop Environment is GNOME. I have used UBuntu earlier when the desktop environment was Unity. I somehow did not like the GNOME environment. Especially the file manager Nautilus and lack of menu bar. I also noticed that the GNOME desktop environment is heavy on resources. I experimented with KDE and in fact installed complete KUbuntu. But there are some problems with the AMD Radeon graphics card which I have in my Lenovo Laptop. KUbuntu would often just freeze without any warnings. I tried installing Manjaro Linux, but then faced problem with the Bluetooth and wireless functionality. Even though I like Manjaro but working with it was becoming too much. I feel comfortable in Ubuntu space. I am also able to find more information on the internet regarding Ubuntu and its variants then Arch Linux. Two days back then I thought of installing lightweight Xfce4 DE on top of my Ubuntu 18.04. Mind here that I did ...

I have a Lenovo G50–70 laptop which came with a 1TB Toshiba HDD. But unfortunately after 6 years of use the HDD developed a lot of bad sectors. The situation became so bad that the installed operating system Windows10 started to crash. I could not understand the problem first. Tried to repair windows, reinstalled it. But nothing worked. After few days of usage again the OS would crash. Then I noticed in one of the disk checking utilities that there were a lot of bad sectors shown. So I did some search on internet and concluded that there is no way to repair the bad sectors and if the number of bad sectors is growing then ultimately the HDD will die. It was time to invest in a new HDD. But this time I was already thinking of a SSD instead of a mechanical HDD due to great performance benefits which you get from SSD. Additionally SSDs are more reliable. You can move your laptop which the disk is working without any problems. Such an activity in a HDD may result in problem wi...