Post #1765496

2026-04-27 18:47 UTC

If we&#39;re going to abandon Ubuntu in all its flavours, what&#39;s a sensible #Lubuntu replacement? lxqt/lxde desktop, bonus points for something snap-free.

Replies (9)

@ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-04-27 19:05

@lopta OpenSuse is good.

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@blainsmith@fosstodon.org 2026-04-27 19:30

@lopta I shifted over to vanilla Debian + XCFE for a very boring and lightweight desktop environment.

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@radhitya@navi.lain.day 2026-04-27 19:40

@lopta https://devuan.org 👍

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@mwhjohnson@mastodon.online 2026-04-27 19:55

@lopta if you want to try an Arch spin, EndeavourOS has the DE you want and a helpful community in my experience.

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@raster@mastodon.uno 2026-04-27 20:40

@lopta If debian doesn't work, other distributions that should install lxqt could be Fedora, OpenSUSE, EndeavourOS, Artix and Slackware, I think? If you have not need of games or particular software on Linux, Freebsd/GhostBSD or one of the other flavours could be fine. In any case, in many distros you can add LXQT later post-installation.

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@linker3000@mastodon.social 2026-04-27 20:43

MX? https://mxlinux.org/

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@wbpeckham@techhub.social 2026-04-28 02:04

@lopta MintDE.

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@xenotar@mastodon.social 2026-04-28 11:28

@lopta debian?

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@ottercynical@is.nota.live 2026-04-29 20:47

@lopta i used #BunsenLabs on a laptop and it's a close enough facsimile of #crunchbang, which is decent if you know what you're doing with linux. Else... idk Knoppix/DSL lol?

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