![]() The interactive online Help Manual opens in a tabbed web page and helps users navigate through many of the tasks that sometimes frustrate newbies (and technophobes like me), like getting the wireless to work, finding the right driver (or even updating existing ones!), getting the sound to work, etc. That extra little safety assurance is similar to what Linux Mint has done with their Updater, with levels of risk clearly labeled and explained for the user. Now they can tweak and peak their OS fearlessly. All of this can be done in any Xfce distro from the Settings menu, but Linux Lite has made it more convenient and reassuring for novice users. Newbies can simply check all the “Safe” options to keep the system clean and fast. This is a sweet little all-in-one-screen utility that does a little bit of housekeeping and customizing. After updating installed software, you can upgrade within a series with a great little Linux Lite application that changes repository settings as needed to the next point within a “series.” Each series is based on the LTS releases of Ubuntu and compare with point releases. Once installed (using the super-awesome Ubiquity installer that makes all the Ubuntu-based distros installable in minutes with wonderful simplicity), the first boot of Linux Lite offers this interactive step-by-step guide to getting started. It has some pretty special little features that are great for folks trying out Linux for the first time. It’s Xubuntu-based and designed to be even more novice-friendly (if that is even possible). So just for grins, I’m giving Linux Lite a try. It runs xubuntu-core like a dream though! Well-chosen lightweight applications (Geary and Midori instead of Thunderbird and Firefox, for example) and the very basic Xfce desktop with the wonderful Xubuntu default settings (but no compositing, not a bunch of daemons running in the background, etc) make this old beast race along as sweet as ever.īut I also have a laptop with 3 gigs of RAM and a dual-core processor and it’s 64-bit. With it’s very low resources, it doesn’t really run the full-blown version of Xubuntu as well as it used to, and when 32-bit support ends it’ll finally be time to retire the faithful old box. But it is an irritating feature of Linux Lite.I take special delight in keeping this ancient Dell desktop running and out of the landfill. No doubt experts on both Mint and Lite forums can explain this in more precise technical detail than my layman's description. If it is installed as a second or third OS after, say, Mint, then Mint's GRUB doesn't recognise the Lite GRUB and update itself to include Lite as an alternative option (unless of course you are capable of doing some complicated editing of boot menus etc). Essentially, Linux Lite has to have its GRUB as the lead or original bootloader. ![]() and it doesn't play as nicely with other distros. But for reasons best known to themselves, the Linux Lite people have tweaked Lite's GRUB2. ![]() Normally, when you install dual or multi-boot OSs, the original GRUB2 will "see" and recognise any subsequent additional distros and list them. I think most Linux distros still use the GRUB2 bootloader. But there is also another "wrinkle" with Linux Lite when used in a dual or multiboot setup. Just one additional point to add to the comment about booting up and UEFI. Both have great user community forums with seriously knowledgeable and helpful members - which counts for a lot! ![]() I agree very much with the comments above by xfrank. Both work well, but I find myself using Mint much more regularly than Lite. I have installed both Mint XFCE and Linux Lite on my laptop (with shared Data partition).
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