Xubuntu
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Privacy focused
Features
- Based on Ubuntu
- XFCE support
- Based on Debian
- Works Offline
- No Tracking
- Ad-free
Tags
- gnome-based
- debian
Xubuntu News & Activities
Recent News
- Maoholguin published news article about Ubuntu
Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin launches with new kernel, GNOME 48, ARM64 support, and moreUbuntu 25.04 "Plucky Puffin" has officially launched following its beta stage a few weeks ago. This...
- POX published news article about Ubuntu
Ubuntu 24.10 “Oracular Oriole” beta released with Linux Kernel 6.11, GNOME 47, and moreCanonical has announced the beta release of Ubuntu 24.10, code-named “Oracular Oriole”. This versio...
- POX published news article about Ubuntu
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS “Noble Numbat” Beta released, powered by GNOME 46 and Linux Kernel 6.8The Ubuntu team has announced the beta release of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS “Noble Numbat” packed with new f...
Recent activities
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What is Xubuntu?
Xubuntu is an elegant and easy-to-use operating system. Xubuntu comes with Xfce, which is a stable, light and configurable desktop environment. It is based on
Ubuntu the easy to use Debian based
Linux kernel based operating system.
It is perfect for those who want to make the most of their desktops, laptops and netbooks, featuring a modern look and enough features for efficient, daily usage. It works well on older hardware too.
Ideals behind Xubuntu
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Usability Xubuntu should help the user to accomplish their task, not be in the way. Furthermore, the various aspects of Xubuntu should be configurable.
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Performance Xubuntu should allow the user to get the most out of their hardware while being user-friendly. It should be lightweight enough to run on moderately old machines as well.
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Ready to use product The Xubuntu experience should be smooth and unified from the boot to the shutdown. All aspects of the operating system should be integrated and polished.
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Community The community infrastructure and communication should be robust enough to enable the contributors to direct their efforts into making Xubuntu better and not resolve irrelevant issues.
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License Xubuntu is protected under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license or "CC-BY-SA" for short which means you are free to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format. You are also free to transform and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.









Comments and Reviews
Xubuntu is an official lightweight flavor of Ubuntu designed for budget computers and old hardware, it feels like using a modern Windows XP but way better.
Their is no status/log while loading. The iso goes to grub but trying or installing just loads indefinitely. Check disc reported no defects. This is the only distro without logging/status display during loading SO I can't debug. If you're determined to use ubuntu/xfce then use Linux Mint Xfce... Mint community is way more active and I only had to run in safe graphics mode.
That’s strange; I never had any issues installing Xubuntu, not even on quite old netbooks.
Xubuntu is my favourite OS, as I like the way it can be configured, and that it runs fast and smoothly on rather old hardware.
What I dislike is, that Snap gets installed without giving the choice to contradict, so you have to remove Snap later. And this is the reason why I’m thinking if I should change to Debian (where all Ubuntus are derived from anyway). But the point is, (X)Ubuntu is a bit easier to use and a bit more flexible.
If you have a Nvidia card and have been experiencing issues with other Linux distros, then Xubuntu is probably your solution. It's much lighter than the regular Ubuntu and doesn't have any of the Amazon bloatware.