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Crumpled6273@lemmy.ca Joined: 2025-12-09

rumschlumpel@feddit.org Joined: 2024-06-23

When the hell has Ubuntu been "the lightweight Linux distro"?

Crumpled6273@lemmy.ca Joined: 2025-12-09

I think in the first couple of years. Maybe it was an accident.

pasdechance@jlai.lu Joined: 2025-06-03

2006 or 2007 is my guess. By 2008 it was too much for my computer at the time (a Dell D610).

nik282000@lemmy.ca Joined: 2023-08-22

Agreed. Ubuntu used to be what I would recommend to new users because of the light mental-overhead needed to move from windows. Now there are too many gothas that will show up down the road, Mint or plain old Debian are where it's at.

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