Another one for LL.

[Moltke]

Hi everyone! Hope you're all having a nice life!

I recently came across this article at Fossybytes.com titled "10 Best Lightweight Linux Distros For Old Computers | 2018 Edition" in which its author, and co-founder of the site Adarsh Verma talks about "Which are the best lightweight Linux distributions for 2018?"

I started to read it and it just happens that LL is mentioned in third place, and the author says:

It’s a great Ubuntu-based lightweight Linux OS that’s based on LTS releases. It comes loaded with all the popular and useful applications like Mozilla Firefox, LibreOffice suite, Thunderbird email client, GIMP graphics editor, VLC media player, etc. It means that with Linux Lite, you’re in for an out-of-the-box functional Linux desktop experience. Linux Lite’s menu might remind some people of Windows XP. The beginner-friendly and lightweight Xfce desktop environment make things easier.

Overall, Linux Lite manages to do something that other popular Linux distributions struggle matching. Even after maintaining a lightweight stature, Linux Lite comes with all major tools and delivers an uncompromised performance

He even says that

It’s also one of my personal favorite Linux distros.

At the bottom of the article author gives some final words, he says:

keeping in mind the easy installation and hassle-free experience, I’ll recommend you to use Bodhi Linux, Ubuntu MATE, or Linux Lite on your old computer.

So I think it is great seeing this kind of articles around the web talking big words and recommending LL as a great choice of a distro.

Here's the article https://fossbytes.com/best-lightweight-linux-distros/  in case anyone wants to read it and share it so more and more people get to know about what a great distro LL is.

Well, that's it, I figured you people would like to know about this, so I thought of sharing the good news

[bitsnpcs]

Hello Moltke,

interesting article and good news

[Artim]

Speaking of Bodhi, I read today that their desktop uses about one-third of the resources that Xfce does.  I wonder if a "Linux Extra-Lite" might be possible using that amazing desktop?

[Moltke]

Moshka desktop is quite lightweight but when I tried Bodhi back in 2016 found it not as intuitive and customizable as XFCE and I didn't like the way it displays menus; seemed quite messy to me. I wonder now if it'd support whisker menu, in fact I think am going to try it out in a VM and see how that goes.  8)  Here's a Moshka desktop's screenshot from that time I tried bodhi.

[Artim]

I really do love my Xfce!  I'm just hoping to keep a reeeeeeally old, ancient, relic desktop out of the landfill for as long as I can.  It's running a stripped-down homemade version of ubuntu-core with LXDE desktop.

[Valtam]

Go Lite, or go home

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[torreydale]

I think I read the same article.  Even though it's another one that categorizes LL for old computers, I'll accept the mention. 

[Moltke]

Even though it's another one that categorizes LL for old computers, I'll accept the mention

I thought the exact same thing, but I also think people might guess that if it works great on old computers, if would do greater on newer ones. I know I would. The most important thing is the more they talk about LL the more people know about it   

[Artim]

I tried Linux Lite out at first because of the name, "LITE."  For me that the most important thing at the time.

[torreydale]

I tried Linux Lite for these reasons:

1) Spatry endorsed it.
2) It had a familiar looking menu.
3) The help manual was comprehensive.
4) I wanted to make the transition to Linux, and I felt the above reasons would help to make it happen.

I stay with Linux Lite mainly for this reason:
The forum.  Cooperation and suggestions from forum users help make Linux Lite better each year.