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I'm a very happy Xubuntu user. Have been for about 5 years, and even switched my partners laptop over to it a few months ago, after her win10 borked itself. Pre
by nekopa 10y ago
I'm a very happy Xubuntu user. Have been for about 5 years, and even switched my partners laptop over to it a few months ago, after her win10 borked itself. Previously I used to dual boot windows and Slackware, but after 10 odd years on Slackware I wanted a Linux system I could just use and not spend every minute tweaking.
I must be getting old.
But I still have fond memories of plugging into Ethernet to get online with lynx and try to find out how did I manage to fuč up WiFi and Xorg by editing and completely unrelated (or so I thought) file.
Ah, good times.
- k__ 10y agoI'm using xubuntu for years now, but I have the feeling it got heavier every year. Now I'm searching for a better alternative
- moderation 10y agoXubuntu user for years also. I still find it pretty zippy and everytime I go out looking at alternatives I always come back.
- nekopa 10y agoSame here. But I must confess that I do get a new laptop every 2-3 years, so maybe it is getting heavier, but I don't notice it. But I was surprised recently when win10 killed my ssd, so I installed Xubuntu on the spinning disk. And it runs as fast as win10 did on the ssd. The only thing that does take longer is booting up, but I always had the feeling that windows was cheating somehow, it would boot to the desktop really quick, but it was not a usable desktop. That still took a while to become responsive.
- Anthony-G 10y agoI’m a very happy user of Lubuntu on an 8-year old Dell laptop – with a modest Celeron 550 processor (I only recently got around to upgrading the RAM from 1GB to 2.5GB) and intend to follow it up with an SSD. I’ve stuck with Lubuntu for the past 5 years or so after experimenting with briefly with Elementary OS and regular Ubuntu. I’ve never had any issue installing it and/or configuring it.