The icons, fonts on the desktop are very large and appear odd on 15.6″ LED displays with 1366 x 768 pixels resolution.
#Lubuntu vs linux lite windows#
The interface looks like a poorly done version of Windows XP. The UI Theme appears dated with bulging elements featuring grey gradients.The launcher bar (aka Activity Bar) is obscenely big and must be reduced in size drastically to become usable and reduce the theft of screen real estate.The top-menu does little except flash the name of the active app, date-time etc. The desktop seems like Unity with Gnome tacked on.2 GB RAM just does not cut it and it realistically requires 4+ GB if you want to launch multiple applications and keep them active. Ubuntu 18.04 requires significantly higher resources.Ubuntu 18.04 had numerous changes due to ‘advancements’ and I just could not wrap my head around them. Sadly Ubuntu 18.04 was a huge disaster on my computer. I waited with baited breath for Ubuntu 18.04 which was supposed to replace the Unity Desktop with Gnome 3 and make Ubuntu lean and un-obtrusive.
and settling down to a mature distribution like Ubuntu derivatives has certainly proved to be a good choice for me.įor a while, I was running Linux Lite 3.4 and then I moved to Ubuntu 17.10 to try out new Interface which seemed a bit ‘same old, same old’ and caused me to move back to ‘Linux Lite 3.8’. The decision was primarily based on active development, hardware compatibility, desktop UI etc. Settling on Debian – Ubuntu as a distribution base was a decision I made after trying out Redhat and Slackware derivatives.
I also run an “ apt proxy” on a Raspberry Pi at home which serves as a package cache and saves tons of bandwidth when upgrading multiple Linux distributions around the house. I have tried Ubuntu 14, Lubuntu, Mint, Pepper Mint and Linux Lite. The laptop has faced Debian-based Ubuntu and it’s derivatives. This way, I can format the root partition if I need to change the OS without affecting my work files stored in ‘home’ partition. I have divided the HDD into a 120 GB root partition for OS (the “/” partition) and 200 GB partition for my files (the “/home” partition). For a while now, it has run a variety of Linux distributions and mostly alternates between Ubuntu and Linux Lite. My good ol’ Acer Aspire 5745 laptop featuring Intel Core i5-450M processor with 8 GB RAM, 320 GB HDD, 15.6″ LED display and Atheros Wi-Fi 802.11g came without licensed Windows OS and does not regret it one bit.
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