Xubuntu

Reader supplied reviews for Xubuntu Average rating 8.1 from 49 review(s) What are your thoughts on Xubuntu? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 23.0422.1022.0421.1021.0420.1020.0419.1019.0418.1018.0417.1017.0416.1016.0415.1015.0414.1014.0413.1013.0412.1012.0411.1011.0410.1010.049.109.048.108.047.107.046.106.06 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 23.04 Rating: 10 Date: 2023-09-16 Votes: 2 I have to give Xubuntu a 10 but there's room for improvement. I give it a 10 because I have used this distro about 10 years. I switched from Ubuntu to Xubuntu where Gnome 3 entered and it removed all of my panel apps in Ubuntu 10.10. Look, those customized panel apps are gold. Everything is right there, not taking up much space or resources! The GUI is fast, responsive, low resource. Gaming on Xubuntu is exceptional. The desktop is so easy to customize with rotating backgrounds right out of the box. Few others do that. On Xubuntu, you can download the Kernel from kernel.org and compile it yourself easily. I tried on Manjaro- no luck and the Kernel dev more or less mocked me for wanting to do that. Not with Xubunut. I'm running the latest bleeding edge Kernel with the latest AMD GPU modules and optimized specifically for my Ryzen 5800x. Complaints: * I wish some of the graphic libraries were newer. What we have now are very stable ones and that's good. However, I have an AMD GPU now and it benefits from every update! * Like another user said, Thunar could benefit from actions. Pyrenamer's development death has meant that arranging files is a chore. I'd love to order files by EXE data and then mass rename them. That's not difficult to do. I would code something if I could. I take photos on my phone then I want to file them into folders by year. You really can't do that without some external tool like the defunct Pyrenamer. Oh well. * We could use some bling. I have never gotten Compiz to work on Xubuntu but maybe that has since changed but we could really use that option. Linux is too beautiful and customizable to waste. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 20.10 Rating: 9 Date: 2023-07-21 Votes: 3 I think that Xubuntu is underappreciated. Instead of complaining about snaps, remove snapd and enjoy the fact that so many things have been already configured and prepared for you. The system is snappy and competitively light on resources. It can easily be tweaked to one's taste to a super looking and acting system. Pros Rich repositories, archive versions for a sentimental trip to the past. Software center. Automatically mounted partitions. Cons Themes, panel, icons, wallpapers, windows that have had the same uninspired look for years. "Open as root" could have been added to Thunar actions. It's only one line of code. Synaptic and Gparted could be there among the most important apps (maybe it's there already in newer versions?). Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 23.04 Rating: 10 Date: 2023-05-05 Votes: 8 Where I'm coming from is Windows from 3.2 to 7, then Linux. Started with Mint 19. It was ok until I got to know Linux better, then it felt restrictive. Tried several distros and eventually settled Lubuntu 18.04. If that version were still actively supported, i'd still be there. I really do not like LXQT. I have used Xubuntu and XFCE on and off for several releases, usually satisfactorily. There have been some not so good releases, but those were much improved one point release later. Xubuntu 23.04 is excellent right out of the box. I did make one change: deleted Thunar and installed PCManFM. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 49 reader reviews of Xubuntu...