Hi everyone. I have an old ASUS S56C and I use it everyday for web (Firefox) and graphic design (Photoshop with Bottles, Inkscape). I have used for years Lubuntu, and it was all good with LXDE ambient, but with the latest versions it switched to LXQT and with snaps I don’t feel it comfortable anymore.

So, I’m looking for another easy weight lightweight distro, no fancy, only for Firefox, Bottles and Inkscape. I’m opened to any suggestions. Thanks in advance to everyone.

EDIT: Thank you all for your time and answers. I’ve read them all and I think I will start with Debian with LXDE. Thank you all again.

  • clubb@lemmy.world
    14·
    1 day ago

    Something that surprises me is that no one mentioned just running debian 12 with lxde. Though, I don’t reccomend using the netinstall, as the user created there won’t be part of the sudo group. You should use the live iso.

    Lubuntu is based on Ubuntu, which is based on Debian. It meets all of your requirements, and has never crashed on me in my 2.5 years of using it, except when running kde, but that’s probably kde’s fault.

    https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-12.9.0-amd64-lxde.iso

    If you don’t trust my link (fair enough, don’t click links from strangers), the iso can be downloaded by going to debian.org, clicking “other downloads” under the big “download” button, locating the live isos, in the “Try Debian live before installing” clicking “other live iso”, and finding the lxde iso.