Why would anyone use Lubuntu over Linux Lite?

[GhostMaker77]

LUBUNTU IS LINUX HELL... LITTERALLY..

STAY AWAY FROM IT...IF YOU VALUE YOUR SANITY

[TheDead]

SCREAMING AGAIN! (Caps lock Off please)

Well, technically I would put the LXDE / LXQt desktop interfaces as the culprits here.
Lighter, but still quite "niche" audience.

Subject related... A request, with the XFCE/KDE talks, I would like to know what the "DE" popularity chart look like. Is there a respected one somewhere on the interweeb? You can also flame me and redirect my request to another thread.

[ProDigit]

From someone who uses Lubuntu,
1- support
2- everything just works from the iso. Unlike other Linux versions, that certain configurations aren't supported, any 5-10 year old hardware until today is directly supported by the OS.
If you have really old hardware, you should try 14.04 or 16.04, which have backwards compatibility with much older hardware.
3- compatibility. Lubuntu 18.04 just works for multi GPU systems needing fan or power control over the GPUs. More modern versions don't.

If you like the search option in the start bar, I'd recommend you to try out Lubuntu 19.04/19.10
They're in essence the same as Mint in functions.

As far as Lubuntu's CPU support, they quote a 1.4Ghz CPU, but I once did a test, and it works fine with a single core 1Ghz CPU. Once you go below this, you may run into boot errors, due to the timer expired on boot file loads. (Meaning certain files won't fully load at boot,causing errors when operating the OS).
A dual core cpu of 1Ghz works just fine.

Also, Lubuntu moved from lxdm to sddm since 18.10, and should support it in their LTS (20.04).

[TheDead]

Concerning your point 2...
Thats one of the reason I started using Linux Lite .

I use 3.x on older hardware, 4.x on newer.
If neither of these work, that's my cue for changing to newer hardware ;-)

Search is good, but have the program description "in your face" was what sold me to XFCE+Whiskers.
I played around with other "lighter" distros and put XFCE on them.. my personnal best was last summer, 132MB RAM upon booting.
Haven't tried on a Pentium 3 yet :-D

Also, I would take a 2x1000MHz CPU versus a 1x2000MHz anyday! lol

[tikiti]

[member=9185]minesheep[/member]
I'm not surprised Firefox crashes on only 512MB RAM on LL - it is a very resource-hungry browser - Chromium (popular amongst Linux users) will use about half the RAM of Firefox, and Midori even less memory. Qupzilla is an extremely lightweight alternative (not sure though if it uses HTML5). You could try Slimjet (very fast), though I don't use it as I don't like closed-source software. Try at least some of these out & you might solve the browser-crashing problem on LL ...

I checked both Chromium & Firefox usage on my laptop running Linux Lite 4.8 & the difference was like around 10MB. Does Chromium use half the memory in your system?

[Paul74]

Hello,
Sorry to update this quite old topic !

I tried Lubuntu on an old HP with AMD Atlon 64 X2 4200 processor and 6 GB or RAM with a 120 GB SSD.
Lubuntu is easy to install, more or less as LL.
But using Lubuntu is a nightmare    !
Small list  of problems I got :
- File manager doesn't permit to access other drive easily
- Local language is not installed for all pieces of software      (LibreOffice, Gimp, etc... stay in english and must be customized to get local language
- OpenVPN is not installed and you will get a real headache and spend some hours  to get it working, it tooks only 2 minutes with LL !
- not easy to create a new item in the dashboard  at the bottom of the screen
- I installed "Numlockx" but was unable to got displayed message telling me the satus of 'caps lock' or "numlock"
- 2 packages managers instead of synaptic
- software updates are longer compared to LL
- .....

[TheDead]

Maybe KDE will be the way of the future... (just to make thread start flaming... Trolololo! )

[The Repairman]

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[TheDead]

Yeah... I would only touch KDE with Jerry and the Linux Lite team's magic touch.

I re-read the last few posts here.
Just a tought since I didn't check but NumlockX could be XFCE only? So... does not work in LXQt maybe...

[The Repairman]

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