I’ve never understood the point of these articles.
What does anyone gain by attacking other linux distro’s? It’s not like people don’t give Linux Mint a chance… I’m not a fan of Snap, but, there are many who are…
Ubuntu also offers SLA’s to companies (15 years support) and Linux Mint doesn’t offer paid support, and there are likely many other reasons to use Ubuntu over LinuxMint.
Use what best suits your requirements.
Mint has always been the better Ubuntu.
Prove me wrong.
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
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.
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 ran hundreds of flatpaks and they never failed to run even once, what do you mean with “frequently fail to work”?
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.
Did someone mentioned Ubuntu was never lightweight yet?
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
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
Ubuntu stopped being a viable desktop distribution 15 years ago, light or heavyweight.
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.
I don’t recall Ubuntu being a lightweight distro or ever aiming to be. It was always Debian with more stuff.
They have had light official flavors (Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Netbook remix). But primary distro that has always been either Gnome or Unity has been fully-featured. It’d only consider it “light” compared to Windows.
ChatGPT, write me an article about Linux that gets traffic.
So XDA developers page too is affected by AI Slop.
Yea they got bought out recently, right?
Not recently I think. It’s around in 2022. Acquired by Valnet Inc.
You are all falling for the rage bait
Unless they’re comparing to LMDE, they’re mostly similar about being lightweight.
