ancient LibreOffice

[Colin Law]

On 12 October 2013 17:08, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12 October 2013 16:59, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> You can boot off the live CD and select Try Ubuntu to see whether it
>> functions ok with your card.
>
> You can, it's true - but the results can be misleading. E.g. on my
> problematic Tosh, it works off live media, but then X.11 fails
> catastrophically when you install it & then install the suggested
> proprietary drivers.

Point taken, though I believe that is unusual.  Not that that is much
consolation if it happens to you :)

Alternatively then, create a 10GB partition and install it there to
give it a go.

Colin