Missing Dash/Panel/Launcher

[Grizzly]

08 September 2018  at 12:01, Colin Law wrote:
Re: Missing Dash/Panel/Launcher (at least in part)

>Is it a 32 bit machine, I had forgotten that if you mentioned it?

No, AMD64, just it lost a ram stick a while back, and got sidelined

>That does limit your options rather.  All the 17 releases are out of support
>now I think. 

I know, only mentioned as thought it "may" add an extra clue 

>How much RAM have you got?  Have you considered getting a new(er) laptop?

I have others that run (mostly duel booting a mix of) XenialPup 7.04, Lubuntu 
17.10, Ubuntu 14.04.5, Elementry & Tails

A netbook (only 32bit) running 18.04.1 with (so far) no problems 

>On a low power machine you would probably be better off with one of the
>less resource hungry flavours.  Lubuntu 18.04 is available in 32 bit I
>think and goes much better on an old machine.  You could try the live
>version of that.  Not sure whether you can upgrade to Lubuntu 18.04 from
>what you have using the live image.  You might have to re-install.

I'll check my storage to see if I still have the iso's for them, though I don't 
think I liked Lubuntu much