Lubuntu

Reader supplied reviews for Lubuntu Average rating 7.8 from 51 review(s) Please specify which version of the distribtion you are reviewing. Please selecting a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on Lubuntu? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 24.1024.0423.1023.0422.1022.0421.1021.0420.1020.0419.1019.0418.1018.0417.1017.0416.1016.0415.1015.0414.1014.0413.1013.0412.1012.0411.1011.0410.1010.04 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 24.04 Rating: 1 Date: 2024-08-18 Votes: 0 This is supposed to be a low-resource-focused distro, however it hasn't been able to boot in live mode, not even in safe mode. On my 17-year-old Dell laptop, a cursor keeps blinking in the top left corner and after several minutes nothing happens at all. I remember that in 2020, this worked without problems. So I think they have removed support for older hardware, since this has happened to me in many other distros. However, Zorin, Mx linux and Manjaro do work and boot, even after being installed. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 24.04 Rating: 8 Date: 2024-06-29 Votes: 4 They should have come up with a new name for this distro, since LXQT and LXDE are not close in terms of what kind of PCs they're best installed on. LXQT is equivalent to XFCE in terms of how lightweight the distribution is, both for CPU usage and memory. I'd put it in the "Welterweight" category not really lightweight. If a PC is too slow for Windows 10, then it will probably be too slow for Lubuntu/LXQT too. If not now, then maybe in the near future. A mid-range PC sold in the last 8 years will probably do fine with Lubuntu-LXQT. If your PC has the resources, then LXQT's search function is a plus, similar to with XFCE. I bounce between LXDE, LXQT, XFCE, and Cinnamon, depending on what the PC can handle. They are all a lot better for my purposes than Gnome 3, KDE and the rest. They use way too much memory and CPU and differ too much from what I've come to expect in a desktop after many years of using Windows. LXQT is what a desktop is supposed to be in my view, in stark contrast to the tablet-like GUI of Ubuntu's primary desktop. I'm not one of those who ever bought into the "Mobile is The Future of Computing" theory. Lubuntu LTS has always been and remains a very solid distro in Linux's .deb world, especially for those used to using ppa repos. It seems anytime I try going back to Debian or a RHEL clone, I'm eventually looking for something in an Ubuntu ppa. If you are brand new to Linux, and have a relatively new PC that can handle it, then I'd suggest using either the Cinnamon version of Ubuntu or Linux Mint with the Cinnamon desktop instead of this, since its configuration settings are a little easier to navigate. If you just want an older PC to not run slowly, then I'd try Lubuntu and add the LXDE meta package afterwards, so you can switch into LXDE at login, in case LXQT ends up being too slow. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 24.04 Rating: 9 Date: 2024-06-28 Votes: 4 It was a smooth easy install via a Rufus USB from one of my MS Windows PCs. It looks way better than I was expecting for a "lite" distro, and it feels faster than any other Linux distro I've ever tried on my 15 year old ex-Macbook 13, which is quite few. I swapped out Rhythmbox for the Syanara music player. I have a less old, and more powerful 15" Dell XPS that Dell and MS have abandoned so I plan to install Lubuntu on there soon. Congratulations and thanks to the devs who have hit the sweet spot for me. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 51 reader reviews of Lubuntu...