Lubuntu Version Fro Netbooks

[Basil Fernie]

Hi Deborah,

I settled on Lubuntu quite a while ago as my favorite 'Buntu. But I have a  
few laptops/notebooks of various makes and vintages in the house being  
used by wife and children, and for them I have pretty well standardised on  
LXLE, which is in turn a Lubuntu derivative offering a somewhat-XP like  
interface (I nearly said "user experience", but it's much nicer) as an  
option. It is aimed particularly at old, low-spec hardware.

It tends to be a little more frugal with resources than Lubuntu itself,  
and just seems a little slicker and easier for the  
not-too-computer-literate to use without bugging me for help. Check  
Distrowatch and its recent Weekly magazine.

The line-up of laptops includes a couple of Thinkpads, a Mecer, a  
Fujitsu-Siemens, the Lenovo G585 on which I write this, and I had a Compaq  
which was stolen from my car. The only machine I have where there are any  
problems with LXLE is an Acer Aspire One which uses an Intel Atom 2520 CPU  
and 2GB RAM. There is a problem with the screen size being reported in a  
way that confuses the driver system resulting in only the top half of the  
screen being used after login - VGA is fine. Hopefully I'll find a  
solution for the LXLE driver problem and get everybody on te same page.  
(Lubuntu itself has a similar problem.)

On this machine I therefore use the CrunchBang distro, descended from  
Debian, and very minimalist. On another machine I was able to install the  
Lubuntu interface on top of CB, but decided I preferred the minimalist  
version and haven't bothered to try it again on the Acer, but it could be  
worth the try.

Just my 2-bits' worth.

Basil



On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 18:07:48 +0200, Deborah P <avisualthinker at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a Toshiba NB205 Netbook with an Intel Atom N280 CPU and 2 GB RAM.  
> Since the Windows XP that was pre-installed >is no longer supported I  
> wanted to try an open source OS and Lubuntu was recommended.
> I've looked at some of the forum posts and still can't determine which  
> version of Lubuntu is best suited for my >netbook. Can you please tell  
> me which version I need?
>
> Thanks,
> Deborah



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