[SOLVED] Suggestion - LXDE Build of Linux Lite

[rokytnji]

@the OP

https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/trisquel-mini

copy Linux Lite /etc/apt/sources.list into Trisquel after the install.

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sudo apt-get update

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sudo apt-get upgrade
Can't have fun till you walk on the wild side of Life.
If you want something bad enough. You have to work for it.
I have no interest so I won't be trying this.

Like I said earlier. I do my own core command line installs when I walk on the shoulders of giants and prefer my own Window Manager install.

[sysdrum]

Currently in the world of lite weight and flexibility DE. XFCE and LXQT (LXDE gtk2+) are equal memory usage and openbox light weight king.


http://blog.lxde.org/?p=1117


But the point is that XFCE allows the most flexibility for the end user. As LXDE is in the middle of a change from one framework to another. Which make it a little heavy up front moving to QT.


But as stated before I do not think a move to LXQT or LXDE will ever happen.


 

[Mike]

Wow, you'd think he was selling LXDE or something.

[Wirezfree]

I would still class my self a noob...9 months in, I have tried quite a few distros, nice but to much eye candy even for Linux.
I don't have any hardware constraints/issues, apart from an oddity with WiFi(rtl8188ce) on a "newish" laptop I'm more than happy
There would have to be some pretty compelling reason to now move from LL.

Also LL makes me feel that I'm part of a supportive happy family

Dave

[N4RPS]

Hello!

LL 'is what it is' for a reason, but I really like LXDE, also. LXDE uses Openbox Configuration Manager, which I also see as more easily customizable. However, To use LXDE in LL would require a distro-changing rewrite - one that will probably never happen. WAY too much work. Except for Lubuntu (no OpenOffice) and LXPup (VERY little of ANYTHING included, AND a REAL pain to add things to), all the other LXDE-based distros (LXLE, Peppermint, etc.) are slower LiveCDs and installs than LL is.

One day, I'd like to see LL become a DE all its own - one that will 'play nice' alongside other Ubuntu DEs, like LXDE and MATE. I also like MATE a lot, but not enough to switch to it, unless it will 'play nicer' with UEFI than LL seems to. MATE seems a bit sluggish to me.

To me, it's a hassle to even go as far as customizing LL to get the 'look' it had in 1.0.8. Easier for me to just leave everything be...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

 

[Kalifornia]

On my old 2006 Dell with 1G of RAM, LL uses only 201MB of RAM with nothing running, and only jumps to about 500MB with Firefox and LO open. That's pretty light. If you need lighter, then you must have even less RAM in your computer.

[Coastie]

... Xfce also allows for way more options to tweak and customize it than Lxde.  So, for those that do want to spruce it up a bit, its much better.  Just my 2 cents. ...

Couldn't agree more! Plus Xfce has the great Whisker menu.  Test drove other DE's on live DVD's and watched video reviews of many more. None of the menus compare and none of the other DE's seemed as tweakable or customizable.

[gold_finger]

Lxde may indeed be lighter, but not by enough to make a significant difference.  Xfce is light enough to install on almost all PCs that are still being used today -- I've installed it on a few old P4's from 2001-02 with only 512MB of RAM and it works better than when they had XP on them.  Aside from that, Xfce also allows for way more options to tweak and customize it than Lxde.  So, for those that do want to spruce it up a bit, its much better.  Just my 2 cents.

Lxle is the distro for you if that's what you want.

[Coastie]

... we will not be changing ... the DE. ....

 

[gcoulthard]

If you like LXDE, I'd suggest LXLE. For XFCE, Linux Lite is my preferred distro.
-- Glen

[rokytnji]

Meh. I made my own LXDE spin off of a core install. It was not the bees knees I thought it would be. But that was long ago and far far away in a land time forgot. 
http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=31202
If ya want it. It is just a sudo apt-get away.

On my Ubuntu 14.04 minimal iso install. I went with Icewm instead of LXDE.
Command line install is the way to roll baby!

Total Control then. But?

If you are an accomplished linux user and know what you are doing

I resemble that remark.

[Jerry]

If you are an accomplished linux user and know what you are doing, you are of course welcome to make your own modified build of LL. We don't have the time nor the inclination to support that, but being free software you are free to do as you wish. Windows has one 'DE' and you are stuck with it, in linux you have choice.

[cjtron]

Oh damn...  Cmon
awww...

[Jerry]

I hate to burst your bubble cjtron, but we will not be changing or adding the DE. Suggestions are of course welcome for adding and removing system components, but that excludes the DE. XFCE is still light, and as has been discussed before there is always something lighter, but that is not the only consideration here. Cheers.

[cjtron]

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If this is truelly a Priced distro as people and I think and follow it as fans,
Why not give us alternative REAL Lighter OS ? LXDE does everything one needs
and is pretty easy, I am total noob to linux that switched from windows,
but take it from me, LXDE is easy to use and configure !
Also, I know a good thing when I see it !

Why not give us a choice for a true Lite Linux
XFCE is nice an all but is still not considered lite enough
for this kind of ideals as Linux lite is saying is trying to accomplish,
it can only compete with Gnome and KDE as being lighter. There is
LXDE and E17

 [P.S e17 is kinda wierd though, and harder to use]
unlike e17, its just so usable, even Mint linux realized it and use it
for their Debian remix distro !

Give us a second choice please !?  New second .iso with it
as most others do it or preinstall it with same iso shipped with xfce!

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Linux Lite needs to wake up too. Get on the horse and see what LXDE
can really accomplish, before you discard this awesome DE from your ideals/plans.



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What it IS: A full blowned, easy
 to work with, fully featured DE
But lighter and faster than the
others; gnome, kde or xfce

What it is NOT: Cut down, hard to configure,
Missing features, slimmed DE