Xubuntu was my main and only OS for many years, and recently I switched to Debian with XFCE. The setup to get things the way I like them was not difficult, but it required more time and thought that Xubuntu. At some point I was asking myself "Why the frick do I bother with this", but I was already on the dancefloor, so I had to dance. Now Debian is my main and only OS. Besides the branding thing, besides being able to say "I use Debian btw", nothing really changed for me.
I'm more of a Lubuntu user (My first distro 12 years ago) and I have considered installing Debian lxqt but the reality is that the ubuntu variants in my experience are just better for the DE you choose be it GNOME, KDE, LXQT, XFCE etc. Better selection of software with better themes, there are teams working integrating the DE with the distro. With Debian it's just a standard Debian base with the DE packages installed on top of it. Ubuntu spins have better documentation and more helpful forums too. (from my noob experience with Lubuntu and Ubuntu). I know the Lubuntu team works very closely with the lxqt team. They are even offering a minimal install without snapd now. Also, updates to the DE of choice arrive faster on Ubuntu spins.
Of course some people will prefer the standardization and stability of Debian and I have nothing against that.
Lubuntu is lighter than Xubuntu. I installed it on my boomer uncle laptop that was struggling with the new Windozes and it's snappy af. Kinda ironic that now he uses Linux while being technologically illiterate while I'm forced to use Windoze still
good point OP
Debian Xfce isn't built around Xfce structure and file placement.
explain
>why use ubuntu instead of debian
That depends entirely on you and you should try both to see. Any reason any one person can give might not apply to another person's use case.
Give me 5 reasons to use Ubuntu over Debian that couldn't also justify using Mint over Ubuntu
Stock Debian is shit * 5.
how? what does stock mean? are you dumb?
>HUUUH? BWAAAAH? WHAAA? WHAT DID YOU MEAN BY THAT??
>it depends
Why use anything with apt-get but Debian with a matching DE?
sneed
As someone who has used both since 2007, there's very little difference.
I bet Debian has a bit of redundancy when it comes to files.
Xubuntu was my main and only OS for many years, and recently I switched to Debian with XFCE. The setup to get things the way I like them was not difficult, but it required more time and thought that Xubuntu. At some point I was asking myself "Why the frick do I bother with this", but I was already on the dancefloor, so I had to dance. Now Debian is my main and only OS. Besides the branding thing, besides being able to say "I use Debian btw", nothing really changed for me.
Thank you
even with the minimal option xubuntu is significantly bloated
debian testing is pretty great, and you can install minimal metapackages
we live in the timeline where KDE won and gnome 3 happened and I want to get off of it.
debian doesnt have snap preinstalled
Don't both use systemd? No thanks
install gentoo
So nobody really knows, huh. Aside from Snap, I guess the kernel is also different. What about Mint Xfce?
I'm more of a Lubuntu user (My first distro 12 years ago) and I have considered installing Debian lxqt but the reality is that the ubuntu variants in my experience are just better for the DE you choose be it GNOME, KDE, LXQT, XFCE etc. Better selection of software with better themes, there are teams working integrating the DE with the distro. With Debian it's just a standard Debian base with the DE packages installed on top of it. Ubuntu spins have better documentation and more helpful forums too. (from my noob experience with Lubuntu and Ubuntu). I know the Lubuntu team works very closely with the lxqt team. They are even offering a minimal install without snapd now. Also, updates to the DE of choice arrive faster on Ubuntu spins.
Of course some people will prefer the standardization and stability of Debian and I have nothing against that.
Linux XFCE
>Connect my phone to the PC
>Copy 2x10GB files
>File manager feckin' dies
Other desktop OS's
>Same 2 line
>Sometimes the file manager dies
Windows (8.1,10,11)
>Same first line
>It werks (I had like an issue a year ago once, but that's it)
Lubuntu is lighter than Xubuntu. I installed it on my boomer uncle laptop that was struggling with the new Windozes and it's snappy af. Kinda ironic that now he uses Linux while being technologically illiterate while I'm forced to use Windoze still
i dont get the ubuntu fetish its a fricking fork of debian except that bugfixes and such go upstream, this thread is moronic