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Linux Lite: Easy to Use Free Linux Operating System
- Santosh83 3y agoWhat desktop does it use? Can't easily see from the website. But from the choice of Thunar as file manager, seems like it is XFCE? Also default browser seems to be Chrome instead of Firefox which is an odd choice for a Linux distro, but probably to make onboarding easier. Also this is yet another distro that builds on top of Ubuntu, which is rather concerning if tomorrow Ubuntu should do a RHEL, a vast swathe of Linux distros would immediately run into trouble. And finally I'd like to know if there's any significant advantage over Linux Mint whose niche this seems to target as well. Edit: Is there any distro out there other than Ubuntu and Fedora that can play well with Secure boot enabled?
- korean-pixel_13 3y agoIts xfce with: Window Theme: Materia Icon Theme: Papirus Font: Roboto Regular
- tmtvl 3y agoIt's Xfce, yeah. And as much as Ubuntu going RHEL would hurt many distros, Debian doing so would be even bigger. As for Secure Boot, OpenSUSE should work.
- Santosh83 3y agoTrue but in Debian's case I believe their 'social contract' forbids such a move, plus there is no central for-profit entity controlling the source code.
- bionsystem 3y agoDebian is community maintained. Funny to recommend OpenSUSE but pretend debian could do the same as RHEL.
- distrowatcher 3y ago> Edit: Is there any distro out there other than Ubuntu and Fedora that can play well with Secure boot enabled? See this distro watch page: https://distrowatch.com/search-mobile.php?pkg=shim&relation=lessequal&pkgver=1&distrorange=InAny https://distrowatch.com/search-mobile.php?pkg=shim&relation=... I haven't checked which ones are derivatives of Ubuntu or red hat, but you may observe that some bsd systems are available.
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- Propelloni 3y agoIt would be shorter to answer the question which Linux distribution does not play well with Secure Boot. Debian was the last big one to get onboard and they sorted it out in 2019.
- fuzzy2 3y agoWould it? Because the answer is probably “most of them”. There’s hundreds of distros. I very much doubt they care about Secure Boot, or, even if they do, have the resources to support it. Some are even outright opposed to Secure Boot for a variety of reasons. Can you enable it anyway on any distro? Yes, but it may require non-trivial steps to do so.
- Propelloni 3y agoYou are right. I was thinking of distros in the same league as Fedora or Ubuntu. Debian, Suse, RHEL all play nice with Secure Boot. Of the big ones only Arch does not work with Secure Boot out of the box. I guess many minor distributions don't bother at all. Thanks for pointing it out.
- msla 3y ago> What desktop does it use? If the answer isn't "any one I choose" the distro is broken.
- Dwedit 3y agoDebian will work fine with secure boot. MX Linux can as well, as long as it's using a Kernel from Debian.
- seedie 3y agoWith all the ads on the page it looks more like a scam then a Linux distro to me. On mobile half the page size is filled with ads. Ad, some content, donation links, some content, ad, some content... I just can't take it seriously
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- Takennickname 3y agoI dare you to visit the site without an ad blocker and say the same thing. It's worse than gizmodo
- seedie 3y agoIf open source makes money thats great. But if your site contains more ads than content I don't spend my time finding out how you differ from other linux distros. Being "Free" is definitely not enough. But I get it, that was no constructive criticism so I try to do better. - the ad/content ratio is way to high - too many unnecessary animations and the choice of colors make me think its bad design. And i transfer this opinion on the main product. - its not clear at all to me why I should choose this distro over all the other free, easy to use linux distributions - all of the above points drive me away from spending more time on the site to find out more about the project This is highly subjective, but it seems like I'm not the only one struggling to find the information I want in a time I'm willing to spend. (Edited to fix formatting and typos)
- KSPAtlas 3y agoThat reminds me of that "Windows 12" OS someone made by basically slapping a theme onto Linux lite and trying to sell it (Michael MJD made a YouTube video about it)
- RuggedPineapple 3y agoAre you old enough to remember Lindows? in like 2000/2001 it was a straight Windows ripoff, even used the old Win 9x/2k theme iirc, and had WINE built in, preconfigured and would intercept windows programs automatically and run them via that. It was blatant enough MS actually took them to court, ended up settling by buying the Lindows trademark from them for 20 million and getting a pinky promise they wouldn't be so confusing to consumers by trying to pass it off as a Windows equivalent. The product was eventually renamed Linspire and continued as a noob-friendly distro with less 'Hey, we're actually Windows!'.
- boomboomsubban 3y agoThe distrowatch page provides more information than their website, https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=lite https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=lite While trying to find info on their website, they seem to highlight some text in a sentence by making it blue, but it's not a link. Quite annoying. And while not a major thing, calling the distro "lite" then shipping with 2100 packages so you won't have to install anything else is a misnomer
- alrlroipsp 3y ago> they seem to highlight some text in a sentence by making it blue, but it's not a link. Quite annoying. This is a blast from the past, indeed! Blue links is the ancient default when you don't use css. It was news for me that any websites still would not override the default css, though.
- notpushkin 3y agoBlue text color and underline are two things that universally help people recognize links – so no matter how custom your CSS is, using any of these traits for other purposes is a bad idea. Of course, nowadays links can be any color and without underline, and we're getting used to it too. This only means that using any color to emphasise words in a text is a bad idea, as more and more people would see that as a link and get confused. Just stick to the good old italics.
- 8organicbits 3y agoI suspect this is why many modern websites use the blue links with underline. People instantly see them as links. Examples: Azure Blog: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-learn-blog/break-out-of-your-comfort-zone-and-start-learning-new-skills/ba-p/3841176 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-learn-blog/... If you look at the CSS, they actually went out of their way to add that underline back in, it's intentional. A more common pattern seems to be blue text that gets underlined on hover. * AWS Docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ec2/index.html * GCP Docs: https://cloud.google.com/docs/ Web applications likely prefer buttons as links, which probably makes sense. They aren't "web pages" they are "applications". Text web pages stick to traditional HTML metaphors.
- rcarmo 3y agoToo many animations everywhere make it very unpleasant to navigate the site… I just gave up.
- pdimitar 3y agoLinux Mint is serving that niche really well IMO. Wonder why would anyone use Lite and not Mint?
- hospitalJail 3y agoI had a hard time installing Mint on a computer a few years ago. I ended up blaming it on my motherboard because I couldn't get anything to boot and I probably read a thread about it. Meanwhile any other linux distro seemed to work fine. No idea though. But since then, I haven't bothered with Linux Mint. Trying to stay closer to Debian and further away from Conical.
- qskousen 3y agohttps://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php https://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php they have that covered :)
- hospitalJail 3y agoWow thank you! That seems super robust. I suppose now I need to decide if I should go with a trendy new distro or the classic.
- AdaX 3y ago> Trying to stay closer to Debian and further away from Conical. My thoughts are similar, therefore LMDE is the best choice! Canonical's policy for several years goes into a bad side and reminds Microsoft more and more: - He pushes to users with his sick ideas ONLY because of a business, for example many violations of privacy, spying for Amazon, Unity, obsessive forcing snaps (because they completely control the repository) ... etc. Here read more: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Host_Operating_System_Selection#Linux_Hosts https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Host_Operating_System_Selection#... - Ubuntu with every new version is getting worse and has more and more bugs, And with them all Ubuntu derivatives - The publishing cycle issuing new versions using the force method at a fixed time limit, even when it is not fully ready and has full of unprotected errors (only marketing counts) - LTS promises support and fixing errors, but does not keep the word and there are security errors never fixed - Additional broker between Debian -> Ubuntu -> Mint increases the surface of attacks and errors in comparison to Debian -> Mint. - Debian has been a bigger reputation from Ubuntu for many years. after all, Ubuntu is a derivative of Debian, only broken along the way! - The LMDE team makes a fantastic job, but LMDE is poorly visible in the galaxy and is very underestimated. LMDE = All the best of Debian + all the best from Mint!
- GoofballJones 3y agoWow, it's free? So no more super expensive Linux distributions? /s
- not_your_vase 3y agoNever pay for software again. vs Give What You Can (USD/EUR) - Support Linux Lite I am getting mixed messages here.
- circuit10 3y agoDonating isn’t really the same as paying
- not_your_vase 3y agoIf you throw some money at the project so the dev team can drink a couple of beers on you, that's donation. If you throw some money at the project because they imply that otherwise development and software availability stops, that's paying for software. Not saying that either one is bad, or worse than the other. But this doesn't look like the first case.
- its-summertime 3y agoIf a charity stops receiving donations, it also stops. The project can stop regardless of your donation, in turn, there is no return consideration. Which is what makes it a donation.
- not_your_vase 3y agoHow is it different from any other paid software, that come with an agreement stating that the software comes without any promises and warranties (including having the software working and existing in the past/present/future)? They say it costs money to develop and maintain software. Which is fine, because it does. But from that moment the statement "Never pay for software again" becomes quite disingenuous, if you ask me.
- gardnr 3y agoSize: 2.3GB From https://www.linuxliteos.com/download.php#current https://www.linuxliteos.com/download.php#current
- UncleSlacky 3y agoYeah, it's not particularly "lite", certainly not by comparison with e.g. Void, Q4OS Trinity, Bodhi, antiX, Slitaz etc.
- jokoon 3y agoIt's pretty great, as long as the support they provide has some quality to it and can satisfy professionals. There are not many ways to make money with open source.
- butterfi 3y agoAs opposed to non-free Linux distributions?
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoRed Hat sends its regards, yes.
- debo_ 3y agoZorin also works really well as an option for folks trying to transition from Windows or MacOS. Swap in xanmod and you've got a snappy desktop that just works. My 75-year old mother found her way around it in very short order.
- leke 3y agoI recently found a really lite distro called Alpine Linux. It's flies on my old netbook from 2013.
- syntaxing 3y agoFWIW, it’s used in a lot of container images. For instance, the Python official Docker images use Alpine as their base OS.
- gema_naranyala 3y agoLinux Lite is my default preferred distro because I can find almost the latest KDE plasma in its dependency manager compared to other distros (except KDE Neon), but the SDDM login manager is broken here.
- lproven 3y agoI find the maintainer of Linux Lite to be rather confrontational, but it's actually not a bad distro. It's Ubuntu with Xfce, increasingly the most sensible no-mess-no-fuss Linux desktop, and no Snap. That's good. It looks nicer than Xubuntu, and it has a bunch of handy little helper apps and accessories. That's good. Snags: * Chrome is not FOSS * No more modern office suite, which seems like something the target market might want. * No replacement for Snap and Flatpak. A worthwhile alternative is Zinc. It's also Ubuntu with Xfce and a better setup than Xubuntu, with Snap removed. However, Zinc sticks with a natively-packaged FOSS browser, and it has something instead of Snap or Flatpak: `deb-get` and integrated Appimage support.