 Hey everybody welcome back to the channel today. I'm going to be taking a look at Linux Lite version 5.4 now this is a version of Linux that is based on Ubuntu's latest long-term support and it's meant for people who are New to Linux who maybe are also running machines that are Lightweight, I'm not gonna say our like low-end because I don't think that Linux Lite is actually like Completely the lowest end you go in terms of a link to show that's meant for older hardware It has quite a few modern features in it that we'll see as we jump in here. So let's jump into it and See just how light Linux Lite is Now we're gonna be installing this in a virtual machine, so I've already set up the The machine here, so we should be able to just get it started and And we'll start Linux Lite. Oops. I got actually yep That screen that we just saw there was typical of an Ubuntu install it wasn't quite as neatly Designed because normally the text that's up there at the top is in the center and there's like an icon Why they made it like that? I'm not sure but it was okay. It checks for errors in the install medium It has a startup sound Now I'm not actually sure what desktop environment. This is this is probably Alex cute. I would guess Before we just install it. Let's find out if Neo Fetch is here No, I'm just curious what the desktop environment is because curiously you can't find that information on their website I looked alright, so actually this is Xfce Interesting, okay, um, I should probably should have recognized that from the beginning It's very well designed for an Xfce thing because normally the Xfce stuff out of the box is kind of Textured it has layers upon it. This is all very very flat kind of like Alex cute Or what at least what I remember Alex cute being but this is Xfce. So that's cool Why they don't promote that on their website or at least I didn't find it on their website So they do have their own custom logo, which is cool. All right, so let's go ahead and install this thing. Shall we? Interestingly their welcome app does not actually show you or prompt you to install the thing itself So we're gonna have to close that and Click on the thing on the desktop That right there is probably not the most user-friendly thing now. This is calamaris. It looks like This might be and oh, this isn't calamaris. That's dumb. This is the ubiquities installer It's just prettier than the ubiquities installer. I didn't And I'm not expecting the ubiquity installer to look be, you know pretty There's no minimal option here, but I'm assuming it's because it's meant to be minimum minimal, you know On on its own. It does have the experimental ZFS Thing here, but we're not gonna use that. We'll just go and install it Continue New York is fine and we'll name this light VM Because why not? Matt is fine We'll create a strong and complicated password. You know, hopefully DT hasn't Trademarked that If so, I've just copyright infringed DT All right, we're installing. We'll see how long this takes through. It's at seven forty five Okay, that took about three and a half minutes. So not very long at all Let's go ahead and what I'm going to do is go ahead and Continue testing here and then shut down properly that way I can remove the install medium from virtual box instead of restarting because now All the time will virtual box remove it properly We're just gonna shut down here And then we'll do this stuff here. Oops. I was gonna I was gonna delete it completely that would have been Matt you're starting the video over Oh Here we go. Oh this time it removed it Sometimes it does sometimes it doesn't and really I can never figure out why it does and or when it will and when it won't It's very weird. I'm sure something that I'm doing wrong. All right. Here we go looking at startup times Okay First of all that wallpaper. Oh boy, that's ugly It's just my opinion, but those colors. Oh Yeah, I'm not impressed with the wallpaper. We're gonna change that almost immediately Desktop settings me. Yeah, I think so that's my that's so much better Okay, before we get started on anything, let's start up a terminal here and see just how light this is So we're gonna do free dash M And we're looking at 608 megs out of the box Now I did start up that wallpaper thing. So it's possible that that's taking up a little bit of room I don't understand why that would stay running in the background, but it's possible the welcome app is here running as well So that will be taking up some space 608 megs is not the lowest I've ever seen so there I've seen some Xfce things that have gone down to 300s I've seen Alex cute down in the 300s Obviously if you're running just a stock window manager a lot of the times you're gonna get down to the 300s But 608 it's not huge It's not the gigabyte plus that you'll often expect to see with something like GNOME or something like that. So Not terrible. Let's look at the kernel. So you name dash a So we're running the Linux kernel 5.4 Which is the previous LTS Kernel release and the one that came with the Ubuntu LTS as well So I don't use Ubuntu so it might be possible that the 5.10 kernel has been back ported to the LTS I'm not sure. So That's something you might have to keep in mind So if you want obviously if you're looking for the latest and greatest you're probably not going to be looking at Linux light This is meant to be something that's uber stable something like Debian stable or Obviously the Ubuntu LTS these are these things are meant to be workhorses that you just let sit for a long time You know on your computer until the next LTS comes out. So we can close that now So here we got the oh the welcome app So let's just see we can make it a little bit bigger. So we install updates install drivers set a restore point Install language support and select darker light things. Let's try that first we're gonna Okay, so dark theme applied I Would say that's not true At least the least the welcome app does not seem to be in the dark mode. Let's let's open up Thunar here So Thunar did go to the dark theme. Now. This is the the adapter GTK thing. I believe So I've always thought that that was very good looking so Interestingly enough it does not go to that p-color yellow background that they decided to choose so I'm gonna come back to that wallpaper quite often. So let's see if there's like a back button. It's like a back button a Big home button at the top. Okay. I Don't need to go through do any of that stuff online support help menu now supposed to leave the help menu manual Help menu help manual Has been updated for this release now Obviously, I mean that seems like an obvious thing, but supposedly it's different than it was before Now I can't actually go through and tell you whether or not that that's true And whether or not that applies to this online version or if that's just the One that's located on the computer, which I actually don't see So supposedly it's located on the system Right here. It's located right here Because yeah, these are exactly the same, which is good. All right, so you this is the online version This is the one that's located on your system. So start here. I'm not actually gonna go through and do a lot of this Actually, you want I bet you this is on their website and this is where it lists as X FCE is the desktop environment Yeah, okay, I did I Did go through and look on their website to see what desktop environment they were using and granted I should have recognized this is X FCE right away Because I like X FCE, but That flat look to it makes it look like LXQ to me But you got to remember I haven't also used LXQ in ages. So I might just be making this up in my mind It may be a complete figment of my imagination, which is so that's completely possible Anyways, the help manual supposedly is one of the things that was a big focus of this release and it looks highly extensive so if you're New to Linux chances are this manual here will be something that will really help you And I'll show you how to go through and install software and How it has synaptic that's interesting as a package manager Because synaptic is not what you would call new user friendly. It's just not all right Well, we're gonna explore the sub the software here in just a second We'll finish it with the welcome app hardware database you at UEFI and secure boot Contribute so there's not I mean, it's a nice looking welcome app, but not necessarily I mean, what do you want from a welcome app? It has the help manual. It has the the buttons you want to get started on That's really all you need. So we'll close that so We talked about the changed user manual But another thing that supposedly has changed is an updated version of the papyrus icon theme Again, that's one of those things where I just don't know enough about it to tell you whether or not This is actually something that looks different than it did last time or not, but I've always liked the papyrus icon theme It's always been what very well put together. It's probably the most popular icon theme out there for Linux It's just something everybody seems to like it's not offensive to anybody's eyebrows We want to offend your eyebrows Oh That's good. Oh, I need to write that one down. That's good So we got 10 new wallpapers, which we looked at here a few minutes ago Which 10 those are I you know who the hell knows? Let's see if we can actually look at that touch target was not very great These wallpapers Wait a minute what the I Somebody's getting sued seriously that is seriously it was a Miller light is at the Miller light logo, but with Linux light Interestingly That's interesting. Okay. That's a cool wallpaper So they have a couple really cool wallpapers here these ones here in the center with the Linux light logo Some of them are not bad the dark ones here aren't bad these yellow ones. Don't use those. Those are horrible And then they have a car that no one actually ever owns as that it's some kind of beamer. I mean nobody ever I mean seriously suicide doors look cool, but Not functional in the least I don't think This is gonna bang your head on those you know you will anyways you can close that Okay, so the rest of the changes in this particular version of Linux light appear to be with UEFI and incremental updates to Certain applications, so let's go ahead and go through some of the apps shall we all right So we're gonna go start here with my computer, which is just a list of all the their your folders, which is interesting to have there this is This is the but is it was this the brisk menu is that why that's called? I guess what that's called So we got the settings here at the top Color profiles desktop disks. This is GNOME disks firewall Configuration, so that's probably setting up ufw night light auto login Like desktop wait, wait a minute. Hold on a second. Oh, so this Will allow you to choose what desktop icons are on the desktop? Okay, so I was kind of hoping that was actually gonna Let you choose the desktop environment. That'd be cool scrolling down a little bit more Network shares. That's gonna be like Samba probably light software. So this tool is Easily installed to remove popular software. So let's see what this actually is Would you like to update your software sources now sure So we're gonna install some software Okay, so this is a custom tool obviously So I could you can hit the control key to install multiple. That's cool So that kind of reminds me if you use Pamac on arch you can go through and install multiple things at the same time Games pack. These are things like genie handbrake Hi device manager instant messenger Cody music player nitro chair OBS is here Packet password manager. This is so this is key past xc. Okay, play on Linux redshift is here simple screen recorder Skype sound use your Spotify steam Because this is based on a boom to you'd expect your software selection to be very robust and it is so pretty much any Pieces of software that you want you'll be able to get right through here So this means you don't have to go through and use synaptic if you don't want to so You can also remove software using the same tool. That's cool I always I don't have any software here installed that we can just close that that's a neat little thing It reminds me a little bit of that apt center at the app center thing that MX Linux No, it wasn't MX like it was sparky. I Think it was sparky that has that anyways Kind of reminds me of that accessories we got archive manager backups That's probably is that gonna be like time shift. Maybe I don't know not actually sure about backups This note. This is deja-dupe Okay, so that's a good one deja-dupe. It's always been really good for making Copies of your disks are backing up and stuff calculator file search fonts screenshot Probably this is probably the XFC screenshot shooter yet thing. Yep Let's see graphics we have gimp installed pre-installed this is going to be Genome photos maybe no, there's a shot. Well, okay shot. Well Okay, so that's a that's another big program. It's very very popular Paint which is probably like an MS paint clone We have Firefox and we have Thunderbird for mail multimedia. We have VLC and pulse audio So that's something that's really nice so far that I've seen There aren't like six Ways of playing media. This is just VLC and that's the way it should be. I mean You should either have MPV on here or you should have VLC in here You really don't need both. You don't need any of the other things now if you want a Application that manages a music library, then you can have something like lollipop or whatever on there as well I guess that would make sense But a lot of distros you find you download them and they have like four different ways of playing a multimedia file And it's just complete bloat. Just choose one. It doesn't matter which one you choose We have Libre office here and That's pretty much it so in terms of package selection Very well done. I feel there's nothing here that overlaps with anything else There are tools that you're for sure going to use. I mean everybody installs game for the most part Everyone has some kind of photo manager depending on what they use Everyone obviously uses I was gonna say like everybody uses firepocket, but that's not true Everyone has a web browser and a mail client install that they want to use whether these are not at least you're not seeing something That's two different mail clients or something and you know, I've seen that before so like I said application selection is very very good And it's it in is minimal. So that's what you'd expect with something with light in the name So let's take a look at the settings. So this is the XFC settings panel. There's not gonna be a ton here that is going to be Unusual we'll look at the themes that are installed. We got adapt a note nocto that that's I Believe that was first popularized like but Was it men Jaro that first popularized popularized it? I'm not sure At a wait, uh, which nobody knows how to pronounce correctly graybird Which is going to be your Redmond version But slightly modernized it looks like so if you remember the Redmond theme that are that's on a lot of these is Like the windows 98 kind of thing, but this has dark dark version high contrast And we'll go back here Yeah, that so not a ton of themes installed but Definitely ones that are good looking so we for icons at a way to eat papyrus gnome. They should really just get rid of that No one Those are crazy icons High concrete high contrast Humanity humanity dark logon icons papyrus adapter. These are all versions of the papyrus and then the boom to mono So those are the boom to the really old Ubuntu Icons that they you they haven't used in Quite a while. Okay, so interestingly you pop up on you hover over something you get a cool pop up That's cool. All right We'll go back to all settings. I don't think there's anything else here that we hold on a second Hold the phone light tweaks. What this what is this? Okay, so like the task you was to perform and then click the bigging button so Boot up fix this restores the boot up a splash stream for the next light clear memory So this is free up memory memory on your system default web browser display over our disk usage Firefox cache Hibernate suspend hostname kernel install so this will allow you to install specific kernels Which is cool. Not all distros come up with something like that You sometimes you have to just use the terminal to do it Locate large files large log archives login and layout options manage safe session num lock settings package system repair preload apps System D log cleaner So this is the nerdy stuff. So this kind of reminds you of like it has some of the stuff that you'd see in like bleach bit or something whisper menu even tells you Things that you could absolutely mess up your system with so if you want changing your hostname or Messing around with the kernels always going to need to be proceeded with caution So that's cool that it warns you so you can tell that they're very much trying to Aim this towards new users But also allow them to kind of spread their wings a little bit and you know Get into the nitty gritty Details of linux and tweak things because I mean that's what elix is all about being able to tweak stuff So this is really cool. I really that's really I mean when I first thought saw linux or light tweaks here I just figured it was going to be something like a gnome tweaks So yeah, that's cool Light welcome light user manager light widget. What is that? Enable light loot. So that's just a that's a conky Okay close cool Nothing else here that really catches my fancy. So I think that that's going to be it That's the first look at linux light version 5.4 now It even says in the release announcement that this is a very modest release So I believe now. I've never tried linux light before. So this is my first time I'm pretty sure that They're not the kind of distro that goes through and radically changes stuff every time they do a release So that's not what they're meant to be. They're meant to be very stable And something that's very much aimed towards someone who's not used linux all that much or who's not as familiar with the other desktop environments like Ubuntu You know using their good version of gnome or regular gnome or even kde which is can be very very Overwhelming for new users. So I was highly impressed with linux light now Is this something that I would use No mostly because I'd missed a you are I guess that's the reason why I mean in terms of This or zubuntu? So that's the that's the real question is use this or zubuntu And I think that if you're using if you're on a system that has Not a very big hard drive This is the one that would be better to go with because it has fewer programs if you install a zubuntu You're gonna get quite a bit more I haven't used zubuntu in quite a while So It's possible that it's not as heavy as you know, I seem to be remembering But I probably it's gonna have at least a little bit more in terms of pre-installed applications You're also gonna have to put up with things like the gnome software center and snaps and stuff like that That's not something now. I didn't actually go through and look and see I'm assuming that linux light Uses snap as well. So let's go ahead and find out here pseudo snap install mail spring Okay, so snap is not installed. So Let's see if I remember how to install flat pack a few moments later Oh, and I spelled it wrong. I can't spell with the dam All right, so flat pack isn't installed either. So Neither snap or flat pack. So Going back to what I was saying earlier If you're choosing between zubuntu and this if you're looking for an xfce base distro And it's meant to be running on hardware. That's either not powerful or doesn't have a lot of storage Linux light seems to be the one that you should choose because it has way fewer options in terms of or as way fewer Applications pre-installed because we need to go to a zoom zubuntu. I'm pretty sure you're gonna get snap installed Just out of the box. So that's the thing. Anyways, thanks for watching Make sure you subscribe to us and make sure you follow us on twitter at the linux cast at the at the facebook at the linux cast You can also support us on patreon at patreon.com slash linux cast. I My words today just did not like working very much I took the day off yesterday for the from a real video and Man, can I it's like one day just complete rust? 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