LXLE

Reader supplied reviews for LXLE Average rating 8.3 from 40 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 LXLE? 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: -- Focal18.04.316.04.414.04.412.04.5 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: Focal Rating: 10 Date: 2024-07-30 Votes: 1 Fantastic lightweight distro that I stumbled upon for my old Acer 5620G laptop. It's like a breath of fresh air for my dusty, forgotten machine. The distro not only revived my laptop but also made it super useful again. With its sleek interface and quick performance, I can now browse the web, check emails, and even stream movies without any lag or crashes. It's like giving a new lease on life to my trusty old companion. I am so glad I found this gem of a distro because now I can enjoy using my laptop once again without any frustrations or limitations. Cheers to technology and all the developers who make these amazing tools possible! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 18.04.3 Rating: 10 Date: 2024-07-15 Votes: 2 Excellent distribution that could easily and simply revive an ancient netbook samsung np-nc110 with only 1Gb RAM! Quickly and without problems installed the latest 64-bit software including the latest beta of telegram-desktop. Not new to linux, as a non-IT home user I started with Slackware in 1995. When solving the current problem I tried Arch, Archman, Debian, antiX, Lubuntu, but each time I didn't get what I wanted. Lxle has succeeded. I was easily able to revitalize the netbook and achieve my goal. Sincere thanks to the authors of this build. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: Focal Rating: 8 Date: 2024-06-29 Votes: 8 This is a good distro to use on those PCs that are too slow to do well with Lubuntu, Xubuntu and other lightweight distros that simply aren't light enough to function well. I have it on a couple laptops over 10 years old that are too slow for the other full desktops out there, including Lubuntu/LXDE. I was disappointed to see Ubuntu stop making an LXDE spin of some kind, even if they felt they needed to move Lubuntu to LXDE. LXQT is no replacement for LXDE, but another competitor for XFCE. LXDE remains unique its its space at the low end, so its unfortunate that there are so few distros aimed at the non-technical user that have it pre-installed. I understand that LXDE was itself abandoned for a while, but that situation has reportedly been corrected in recent months. LXLE was one of the few to have LXDE pre-installed, but as others have pointed out, this distro appears to be either dormant or abandoned based on the lack of activity on their website. There's been no update coinciding with the release of Ubuntu 22.04. However, the previously released version of LXLE can be manually updated to Ubuntu 22.04. First you need to make sure LXDE, the "metapackage for LXDE" was installed beforehand, using the Synaptic Package Manager. LXLE did not have this previously installed, but I was thinking it might help avoid a situation where the upgrade breaks the the distro and it seemed to work well enough. LXDE-Common and LXLE-Core were already selected by LXLE. In the Sakura terminal, I then did a "sudo do-release-upgrade" command to start the upgrade process. It took a few hours and asked me several times to confirm if I wanted to replace some default files with the package manager's version, which I accepted with a "y". I kept none of the originals. In the process, it temporarily disables the set of ppa repositories that LXLE had pre-installed that are managed by people other than the LXLE maintainers. After the upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04 "Jammy" is completed, I used LXLE's "Y PPA Manager" app to "Update release name in working PPAs" to change them from focal to jammy. Then I rebooted the PC. Then I had the same app "Re-enable working PPAs after Ubuntu upgrade." After it completed, I went into the Sakura terminal to do another update with a "sudo apt update" and then "sudo apt full-upgrade" commands. After this, I rebooted the PC again and the upgrade was done. While the maintainers have abandoned it, its still in a usable and upgradeable state with the latest Ubuntu LTS, so it's still not a bad option if you're willing to do a little manual maintenance work on occasion. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 40 reader reviews of LXLE...