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Xubuntu is a light-ish spin of Ubuntu Linux. It uses the Xfce desktop environment and is suitable for older machines which would bog down with a heavier DE like Unity or GNOME or KDE.
Curmudgeonly software reviewer Dedoimedo reports:
Giving a high score to Xubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak may look as if it's getting credit only because all other Ubuntu releases this year were horrible, but it is not so. If we exclude the hardware-specific issues with the Realtek drivers--which is a big issue across the entire distro world--and the package manager choice, there weren't any huge, cardinal problems this time. It would seem that Xubuntu is recovering gently. Perhaps it is still too early to tell, but Yak is much, much better than [Xubuntu 16.04 Xenial] Xerus. And it deserves 8/10.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday November 08 2016, @01:15PM
Moved to Mint and never looked back. The Cinnamon UI is very usable. Or, if you prefer the Gnome 2 look, use Mate.
Don't know why people are still using Ubuntu. Unity is hot garbage.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Dr. Manhattan on Tuesday November 08 2016, @01:20PM
This article was about Xubuntu, though. So, no Unity.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 08 2016, @01:25PM
Mint also has an pre-configured Xfce install as well.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Kilo110 on Tuesday November 08 2016, @01:27PM
I remember hearing some criticism towards Mint a few years back about their practices. Such as hijacking upstream namespaces and mixing binaries from different sources. Probably others too. I'm not sure if that's still true or not. But I've avoided Mint since.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday November 08 2016, @10:50PM
mixing binaries from different sources.
Its all open source, So what would be the down side of that?
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by Kilo110 on Friday November 11 2016, @02:39PM
I believe Debian calls it a "frankenDebian". From my understanding, mixing binaries may expect different versions of libraries and other system files that can create unexpected and weird side effects.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 08 2016, @06:57PM
I actually like Unity, so no Xubuntu for me. But then I used to be a WindowMaker guy.
(Score: 2) by engblom on Wednesday November 09 2016, @06:10AM
I still can not understand why Mint is so much cheered. I mean, why would anyone want a distro that can not be easily upgraded to newer releases. The recommended way is a clean install. 'apt-get dist-upgrade' with official (Ubuntu) and third party (Mint) repositories mixed is not a sure thing to succeed and certainly not officially supported.
And I do not understand what all this cursing about Unity is. I mean, you are not forced to have Unity if you go with Ubuntu. That is why I would grab Ubuntu Server disks if I would install Ubuntu. I would then install the "desktop" of my choice. Whatever "desktop" environment I want is just one 'apt-get install' away. It is not more difficult than that.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday November 09 2016, @02:22PM
Just plain wrong. You use the mintupgrade command just like Ubuntu's do-release-upgrade.
Because it's an awful time wasting interface that is the default. Sure you and I might know how to switch window managers or start with Ubuntu distros with Mate of Xfce, but most people don't. Mint gets it right with Cinnamon.