AntiX continues to drive me bananas.

I found one vague reference on the internet to a bug (I assume it's a bug) in the installer which prevents it recognising a hard drive of less than 4gb. Sure enough,  as soon as I allow it 4gb or more, I can install it. Goodness knows how this affects the can't-pass-the-problem-with-the-root-password thing, though. Perhaps that's still lurking in wait for another time. Meantime, fatal error /dev/ is not a block device is just as irritating.

The problem is that I would like to install it on the faithful old Eee PC 4G, whose 4GB drive is only 4 giga-marketing-bytes, which works out at about 3.72 giga-binary-bytes. Looking at my successful VirtualBox installation - AntiX should fit. Not much point if the installer bombs out on seeing less than 4GiB of space, though.

It's a delightfully light and fast distro once one does get it installed on something.

I've also had a quick play with MX-18 - a near relative of Antix, and the result of a collabortion between the former Mepis and the AntiX communities.. Polished, fast and really, really nice. Too big for the little Eee, alas, but fine on an 8GB drive.

Perhaps I'll take a little time out to play with the Windows 10 netbook again - then get back to finding easy-to-use distros. (Wish I could actually do that command-line stuff, or even a little programming. It's tedious being interested in something for which one lacks any aptitude whatsoever.)