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 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.