Lubuntu is an Amazing Lightweight Distro using LXQT!!!!
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- I reviewed Lubuntu which is an Ubuntu LXQT edition. It's lightweight but still full featured and stable. I set up a virtual machine with VirtManager with only 1 GB of ram and 2 cores for the CPU. I'm using my Dell G15 Laptop running Endeavour Os.
I had the old version of Lubuntu (with LXDE) installed on a netbook from 2008 with a single-core Atom and 512 MB of RAM. It ran surprisingly well. Firefox and LibreOffice were a little out of reach, but Midori and Abiword did the job for what we needed. It's nice to see LXQT is still following the same lightweight but full-featured design policy.
Try antix Linux, it makes Firefox run on hardware it struggled on.
I just installed Lubuntu on this 13 year old Presario C700 and wanted to see how it performed streaming videos.
Ran the updates and installed the Broadcom wireless drivers. Your video is playing well with only 2GB memory.
I rarely use this machine, but enjoy keeping it alive over the years just to know that I can!
I've been using Lubuntu 16.04 (LXDE) for 1 year or so. Runs really well on my 9+ year old laptop 👍🏼
I decided to try it after watching your video.. and I love it. Reminds me of Windows 95. Runs fantastic on 6 GB RAM.
I run this distro on an old Dell laptop (about 8-9 years old) with 4 GB of RAM. It can run Firefox, VSCode, qpdfview and VLC at the same time with no issues. I just have to be careful with RAM usage because sometimes it freezes. Other than that, it's an amazing distro!
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If it freezes, make sure to configure swap and/or zRAM
@@piotrmazek540 how to do that?
I use LXqt daily on Sparky 7, and it works very well. I love the customization possible with it and its small footprint. It is excellent on Fedora as well. Nice video!
Nice review. I'm writing this on a low power PC with an AMD A8-7410 APU with AMD Radeon R5 Graphics and 8GB RAM (8 GB are currently around 15€ on Ebay, no reason to settle for less) that I use for browsing/email/Skype/movies/mp3. I installed Lubuntu 16.04 on it when I bought it 5 or 6 years ago. At that time Lubuntu still used LXDE (the predecessor of LXQT, based on GTK2). Despite the switch to LXQT all distro updates workes flawlessly and I did not have a single stability issue in all these years. I'm at 20.04 now, hoping the update to 22.04 will work just as well.
My favorite DE for my workstation is still Plasma, but LXQT is simple and intuitive, and most of the keyboard shortcuts that KDE Plasma uses work for LXQT, too.
Watched the video to see what LXQt is like more recently since I haven't looked at it for around 2 years now and I just got reminded of why I couldn't use it. A few that I remembered are:
- Window resizing is a pain with how small the borders are and how pinpoint you need to be able to resize it.
- Window Management (Tiling, Maximizing, Minimizing and the like) are pretty broken with how disjointed the shortcuts are for LXQt since its different parts joined together. Would have been fine it that mish-mash of compinents worked together but shortcuts for Openbox vs LXQt parts were conflicting.
- Since LXQt replaced LXDE I thought it was going to have ram usage on part with it, but from what I've seen its around double of LXDE and not too far off from just using XFCE (which has better integration between components and less problems).
- Themeing LXQt is a massive headache and there's no native dark mode (when I was trying it anyway). Tried using Kvantum Manager (not sure if my spelling is right), but just gave more problems.
At the end of it I just gone back to XFCE and stuck with that for both my VM and an older pc I have.
I found a Dell laptop from 2007, it has a T2080 CPU and 2GB DDR2. Found a SSD i had laying around somewhere.
Lets try Lubuntu 18.04 (last 32bit release) I'll be damned that thing is actually usable! Pretty impressive.
Specially with a SSD it feels... Pretty darn good and responsive
You would make one of the most exciting product reviewers
I'm not the biggest fan of Ubuntu, but this version looks nice. If I ever spin up an older machine, I will give it test go for sure.
This seems like a great lightweight distro for beginners for sure but I know from experience that Void Linux musl (btw you may want to check out that distro, it's really unique) has a lower memory footprint even with their already packaged xfce4 version (250MiB at idle.) And that impressive since being lightweight isn't a core value in the project.
I'm gonna check out Void Linux...thanks for the heads up!
Deffo another Ubuntu flavour for me to try before having a go at Debian.
Thank you so much, Jeremy!
Try Arch (or derivates) with LXQT... it will use even less RAM and will be definitely even more snappy.
On my list for sure...thanks!
arch can't detect my internet adapter
@@modables install the correct firmware package
i'm not sure if it's arch difference, maybe preinstalled packages and init. something like devuan might be enough
Thanks for the review, but does it run mp4 format by default without any issues?
Not using a virtual machine i mean when using lubuntu as the main OS on a pc for the first time after being on windows does it have the needed codecs to run mp4 and other video formats correctly?
Dear Linux Experts,
I have a Dell Inspiron Mini 10 1010 that came with Windows 7 Starter. It will run any lite 32-bit Linux/Ubuntu distro providing you’re not wanting any audio. The audio is choppy.
This netbook appears to use the Puolsbo audio driver, which apparently is part of the GMA 500 video card. The video works fine, it’s the audio that’s the problem. Is there a Linux/Ubuntu Distro that either installs the Poulsbo driver, or has a work-around driver for that system?
Hi, bought a dell mini 10v (inspiron 1011) many years ago. Win XP was preinstalled. I gave Win 8 a try, but it was a pain. But now it runs MX Linux fluxbox 32bit without any audio issues out of the box.
Yay finally a not some broken English review! So refreshing to see a good general quick review been trying mint,haiku, and Lubuntu seems to use less resources even less than cinnamon! mint is visually better, it's fun to try them all lol!
lubuntu - найкраща операційна система для домашнього користування. Взула і забула.
why the audio quality on lubuntu 22.04 is like someone talking/playing music through the pipe? (bad quality) any articles or proprietary drivers need to be installed?
I still think the last lxde (18.04) is the best lightweight Lubuntu.
why? all lxde developpers have moved to QT(LXQT)
Excellent!!! Thanx!!
Hi, if someone apt installed lxqt on Ubuntu server, would they get a fast and light minimal environment from which they could install only their desired apps or would they miss out on some kind of optimisations that go into the Lubuntu distribution?
Hey, late reply but perhaps it's still relevant. Longtime LXDE and LXQt user here. LXQt plays along very well with all linux-software due to their low-dependencies-design-policy (therefore runs pretty stable). You can even install and use another window manager. If you 'sudo apt install lxqt' out of the repos, also install a window manager (it's not included, most ppl use Openbox or Kwin). There's also a even more minimal 'lxqt-core' package available.
It's really "agnostic" towards your choice of programs. All apps that are in the repos work well, regardless of them using GTK or Qt theming (except some GNOME-apps look out of place, but that's a GNOME-thing). However, if you like ricing your DE you might download additional GTK and QT themes or install the Kvantum-manager, as there are not many preinstalled. Also out of the box with Openbox WM it's is a very traditional floating-windows-style DE. If you want pseudo-tiling for example, you have to add these features in your openbox rc.xml or install graphical tiling-helper-apps. DE-setup options are not as abundant as on KDE and there are no "extensions" like in GNOME, but therefore you're not overwhelmed with choices and you have extremely high compatibility between user-accounts and other systems.
All in all it's complete but simple in terms of easy, out-of-the-box usability and sane defaults, it's lightweight and stays out of your way, so (with a little effort) you can add software that suits you and customize your system and workflow however you like.
Does the Lubuntu 32 bit support bluetooth and vpn connection?
You can test it withouth installing it so...
Nice job:)
I always install Ubuntu Server edition and then install lxqt-core. Even more light weight than Lubuntu.
Thanks
my parents have a laptop with 4 gigs of ram that they want to toss out because they cant put windows 11 on it. I think im going to have them try this before they toss it, all they use it for is web browsing and web apps like zoom so i bet this will work great.
Are you single?
what the hell
What does "swap fils" mean in the hard disk installation settings?
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still, impressive
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