Mint has always been the better Ubuntu.
Prove me wrong.
I’ve never heard Ubuntu claiming to be lightweight.
Ubuntu’s initial claim to fame was a normie (non-techie) could install it and the stuff they wanted to work would Just Work- there’d be a little option during install ‘do you want to install closed source or proprietary or patent encumbered shit?’ and you’d click yes and then your graphics card would work and your MP3s would play and your sound card worked without having to fuck around with kernel modules and command lines.
If you want lightweight install Xubuntu (xfce environment).
The current version of Ubuntu recommends 6GB of memory and a dual-core processor
4 GB.
Ubuntu doesn’t have other lightweight options, but Linux Mint offers XFCE and MATE editions.
Wrong. XFCE and LxQt versions are offered - Lubuntu and Xubuntu.
Snap is a packaging system that includes every possible file or runtime that the app needs to work.
Yes, so it actually works at proper containerisation. That is actually the whole point of containerisation.
Flatpaks frequently fail to work because of library incompatibilities.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements
I’ve never heard of ubuntu being described as light weight.
only thing it was ever described as, is as an easy to use distro for first time linux users… and even thats not entirely applicable anymore
I don’t think I have ever heard of Ubuntu be described as anything other than the “default Linux” distro that you use or give to someone if all you/they care about is good first and third party support.
It is the iPhone or Samsung Galaxy of the Linux desktop OS world.
Hasn’t ubuntu always been the “non-tech friendly linux distro”? Their market niche was not being light weight.
As others have stated, Ubuntu was never a minimalist distribution.
When Ubuntu first came out, most common CD drives could only work with CDs of a about 700Mb capacity, but assuming that the tech would keep improving, it was reasonable to suggest this. It was never because Ubuntu was touted as “lightweight”, though. Then writable DVDs became almost ubiquitous, and they eventually migrated to that. In the meantime, USB flash drives were getting cheaper, and Linux installer tech was also improving, so eventually (quite early actually) these were supported too. But this was simply a logical progression of tech development and catering to the predominant baseline capacities of storage media.
If you want a proper minimalist, try PuppyLinux or DamnSmallLinux. If you want to run on a Raspberry Pi (or one of their other supported SBCs) try DietPi.
When was Ubuntu “lightweight”? I’m not saying it was always bloated, but it was never supposed to be minimalist either. It was just an easy works-out-of-the-box Linux experience.
It was only lightweight in comparison to Windows, but every other OS is.
When they first started, they had a list of promises. One of them was to always fit on a 800meg CD.
In the early 2000s, that wasnt particularily lightweight. I believe it came with openoffice and the full gnome desktop. That was not really minimal in any way.
Did someone mentioned Ubuntu was never lightweight yet?
When they first started, they had a list of promises. One of them was to always fit on a 800meg CD.
Alright ubuntu was the most preferred in companies and startups. At least for south asia.
Every college, and companies had ISO setups, cause it was the easiest software to install from boot. So i agree with this. The article is dumbly written tho
Ubuntu stopped being a viable desktop distribution 15 years ago, light or heavyweight.
GNOME 3 and afterwards didn’t help. And Snap was the last nail in the coffin.
I recently abandoned windows for Linux on one of my machines (not my first, won’t be the last), and I chose Debian specifically because it’s the leanest by reputation.
I’ve just deployed a full debain active directory business network. We’ve had suppliers in the last 2 weeks installing equipment and I’m now bored of explaining to people why our infrastructure is so fast and just works.
Even the 2 windows 11 machines we require to run some lab equipment have drawn some comments because they work so much better in our local environment without being bogged down connecting to MS cloud garbage.
I’m doing this for my partner as I’ve been out of IT for 15 years. I’ve never had this level of interest and enthusiasm about a business network I’d installed back then
Sometimes I feel like Linux Mint has a low-key marketing budget or something lol
I don’t think they do, it’s just a good plug and play option for people just wanting to get away from Microslop. It’s not really meant for power users, but people that want as little tinkering as possible (while still having the option if needed). Though I think they should do marketing, and get more people off of Microsoft products.
And for the record, I am still waiting for my check from Linux Mint for this ad.
why would it stop when it never was to begin with? lol
My exact thought. Always been at least mid weight, if not flipping heavy as.
IMO that’s why it became popular at the time. It was a Linux distro anyone can install and use right away after installation.
Easy install with drivers included and a rich guy willing to mail you installer CDs in a nice jacket for free. Every computer club in any school had a stack of them to give out.
Right, it had everything built in and ready to go
When they first started, they had a list of promises. One of them was to always fit on a 800meg CD.
Is it kind of weird to respond to every thread with this same claim? A CD iso with full gnome desktop and openoffice wasnt minimal at the time.
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There wasn’t a single second between now and 1970 where even the most delusional people could’ve seen Ubuntu as “lightweight”.
When they first started, they had a list of promises. One of them was to always fit on a 800meg CD.
Not saying lightweight but Ubuntu 10.10 booting was fast at least even on HDD.
Compared to what “heavyweight” distro at the time?
Compared to Ubu…
Back when they were still fucking around with upstart and mir its was light enough. Today its just another windows.
It’s basically bearing the brunt of Windows heads using Linux. It’s a very common disto on WSL.
