I've been having ups and downs with Fienix. More ups so far, the most surprising and delightful of which was being able to click on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v66P2HaH4M0 in an earlier post and see and hear the video. It works after a fashion on my MATE 16.04, but getting Youtube to work there was a real hassle, and I still wouldn't be able to get sound on REMIX.
My first real downer was when I put the .img on my hard drive and immediately ran out of memory. Christian reminded me how to fix that, but is was too late. Many important things were missing, including Office, MATE Terminal, System Tools, and Firefox. I had to re-format the drive and reload the .img.
Now I wonder if some remaining negative aspects are unique to my system, or are they common?
1. When I boot Fienix, I get a screen of green and purple (see attached photo) with a text cursor in the middle, which changes sometimes to a cursor arrow. I have been able to get past that, to a proper log-in screen, sometimes by simply pressing the Enter key.
2. On the left of the Fienix desktop, three icons come and go. I have been able to keep them afloat at least once long enough to click the middle one and launch Firefox.
3. When I try to download something from the internet, the "You have chosen to open ..." window pops up. I choose the "Save File" option and click OK. Firefox always vanishes from the Desktop.
I can't use the Log File Viewer. How do I get it to give me permission? (I know the root password.) I tried the Terminal, with these results:
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fienix@Fienix:/var/log$ sudo nano user.log
[sudo] password for fienix:
fienix is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
fienix@Fienix:/var/log$ su nano user.log
su: user nano does not exist
fienix@Fienix:/var/log$
I haven't been able to figure out how to get fienix into the sudoers file.