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Ubuntu stopped being the lightweight Linux distro, and Linux Mint filled the gap it left behind (www.xda-developers.com)

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[–] realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 56 points 1 day ago (6 children)

There wasn't a single second between now and 1970 where even the most delusional people could've seen Ubuntu as "lightweight".

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[–] ki4jgt@feddit.org -4 points 10 hours ago

When they first started, they had a list of promises. One of them was to always fit on a 800meg CD.

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[–] muhyb@programming.dev 6 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Not saying lightweight but Ubuntu 10.10 booting was fast at least even on HDD.

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[–] markstos@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

Compared to what "heavyweight" distro at the time?

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[–] muhyb@programming.dev 4 points 15 hours ago

Compared to Ubu...

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[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

Back when they were still fucking around with upstart and mir its was light enough. Today its just another windows.

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[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

It’s basically bearing the brunt of Windows heads using Linux. It’s a very common disto on WSL.

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