Xubuntu

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “I installed Xubuntu and have run that ever since with no performance issues whatsoever”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-27

• “how many games are playable on my Xubuntu Chromebook install”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-13

• “I was running xubuntu as my main desktop since 2010 at least”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-04-26

• “had to migrate away from Xubuntu (xfce) due to the poor HiDPI support”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-24

• “I ran xubuntu on it with the Mr Chromebook firmware for a loooong time until my most commonly used websites became so heavy browsing was impossible”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-02-19

• “switched to Mint at the start of March last year since it (Xubuntu) was going to EoL”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-01-10

• “Xubuntu 22.04 took nearly 10 GB of disk and half a gig of RAM”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-12-09

• “I put my parents on Xubuntu over 13 years ago. I told them it works like Windows[0] and showed them around for 5 minutes. I expected a call to "put it back to what it was," but it never happened.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-06-08

• “Xubuntu decided to ship unstable development pre-releases of the core Xfce components in their last stable OS release, and I got really annoyed getting bug reports from users who were running a dev release that was 4 releases behind current, where things were fixed. This was completely unnecessary and wasted a bunch of my time.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2024-12-26