After rebuilding my Ubuntu VM on 22.04 I started having lots of problems with stability. Also, it was not performing very well and the GUI was not responsive enough to meet my needs.
I thought about maybe switching graphical desktop environments, but didn’t want to be bothered with all the configuration and tuning that goes along with doing that.
I considered other Linux distros also, but I’m running packages that I would have had to compile on other distros. Yuck! And then how am I supposed to keep those packages up to date? Recompiling them constantly? Double yuck! The built-in support for snap packages in Ubuntu is also nice, as well as my familiarity with apt and the huge community that Ubuntu has.
Q: But wait, aren’t you a Linux Sysadmin? Like professionally?
A: Yes, but that doesn’t mean I hate myself! I’m perfectly happy to bang my head against the wall with RHEL or RHEL-derivatives at work, where I have colleagues to bat ideas back and forth, but I don’t have a lot of free time to burn on my home computers.
Anyway, I gave Lubuntu (a lightweight derivative of Ubuntu) a try and I LOVE it! Check it out: https://lubuntu.me/
The performance and stability is there for sure. It has a smaller footprint on my system, and the LXQt desktop environment is snappy, responsive, and a joy to use.
Lubuntu is a community-developed distribution, so don’t forget to give them a bit of financial support if you love their project as much as I do: https://www.paypal.me/LubuntuAssociation
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