An everyday user review of Linux Lite OS and Puppy Linux!?

In this video, I'll be giving you my honest review of Linux Lite OS and sharing my thoughts on Puppy Linux. As an average user, I'll discuss the user-friendliness, interface, and overall performance of these two popular Linux operating systems. Whether you're a seasoned Linux user or new to the OS, this video will give you valuable insights to help you decide which one is right for you.

[rmcellig]

I have. been using puppy Linux for years. My all time favorite distro! Love it!

[kizersoozie]

Love that you're doing reviews John. Puppy was great about 15 years ago, but I'm not a fan of the latest version. I gave Lite a try when I was trying to find a really light distro for my old laptop, I ended up installing LMDE6 instead. I've tried a bunch of distros as full installs, and many as VMs, but I haven't found anything that I like better than Mint or LMDE6. Looking forward to your review of Arch, which I don't like, as I'm not into tinkering for a week to get it up and running the way I want, and Bodhi, which is a very unique distro with a very fast boot time. I liked Bodhi so much I ran it as my main driver on my secondary desktop until LMDE6 came out.

[HeddleTown]

Linux Mint in the software manager has a program called hardinfo It's got a little benchmark part of the program on the left hand side would be cool to see the different distros actual performance on the same computer!

[RainerSteffenHain]

I'm a regular Puppy Linux user since 2011. From the very first day I created my own derivatives and later I used WoofCE to create my own versions. Currently I'm still using my ArtStudio64 which was created from the Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 packages. Doing audio edit, video edit, office, graphics, internet and composing music etc. - all that stuff in my own built. I don't want to use another OS anymore. Puppy remains my favorite OS, and if my current OS is getting too old for newer hardware I'm going to create a new ArtStudio.😃

[bkThundr]

Chromium is owned and maintained by google, but it is still an open source project. I prefer firefox as it is not chromium based. Brave is chromium based as well. All in all I use Firefox, librewolf, and brave each for different things.

BTW, I am glad you decided to review Linux distros. I am always looking forward to your no nonsense unbiased opinions. You are a delight.

[jairojatalon]

Linux Lite is, clearly at first sight, conceived for professional use, even though it is simple enough for everyone. I 've been using Linux Lite for 3 years now, and in my personal laptop I use Linux for 14 years (I studied Linux Red Hat in NY, 23 years ago) and, certainly, I recommend Linux in the companies, even though that means less than 5% of effective use (but for backup and internet, every rack system has Linux in the companies). I appreciated too much your analysis, John.

[thecrow]

13:00 its a bit slow. Its an A8 7600 processor, that thing was already slow 10 years ago, what did you expect lol. I'm surprised to see linux run decent enough on this hardware at all.

[JeremyLewis-fz]

linux lite is ok i love puppy linux its one of the first linux i used back years ago

[estried]

I love Linux Lite on older hardware, it runs great on my 2009 Macbook Pro. I agree with you about the package manager, it needs a lot of work.

[johnbowles]

Hi John, I enjoy your videos they're good for an oldie like me, if you wouldn't mind could you do a video on how to verify checksums, I'm finding it hard for my old grey matter to absorb. Hopefully I'm not the only one who has trouble with it. Thank you for all of your hard work from an old English man living on a very small island off the coast of England 🇬🇧.

[BWGPEI]

I hear you about Grandpa - my 71st birthday happens within the next week. Install - well that means different things to different people. To me, it means "can I put it where I want it and does it actually restart?" Over the years, not all distributions have passed that test. And lately it means that "'/" lives on an SSD and "/home" lives on a much bigger spinning hard drive. Not all installers make it easy to set that up. Nor can I share that Debian-based home folder with Arch-based distributions if I want things to work. But I've has a lot of "retired" fun trying all those distributions on an old desktop system whilst running Linux Mint on our daily drivers.

[slackmaster]

I believe you can using a puppy linux version slackware base ive built it for slackware

[juanroldan]

Hi John! I haven't tried Puppy Linux but I have seen DT taking a look at it. It seems like it's designed for a very low specs machine. It would not be my first choice if I had to do school or office work. I would use something more robust. I do run Linux Lite in a 12 years old Acer netbook. It runs fine and I actually had a lot of fun with it. DT recomends it for older people with old low specs computers. You have to understand the limitations of the system. This is not a high end daily driver. It's a "bring back that old computer back to life" kinda deal. The Synaptic package manager is fine and works great. The downside of it is that you may need to know what you're looking for. Not great if the user doesn't know what they're doing. I have installed it in 2 computers for friends and have to continually come back to help them.

[SubTroppo]

I have no problems with Puppy Linux but then I'm a slow learner and I don't try to do video editing at all. After more than a decade of using it I revert to the version based on Slackware (64bit). ps I could be a great-grandfather (but I'm not).

[RedSntDK]

I actually found MX Linux a bit by accident, because I was looking for lightweight distros for my 2009 netbook and found AntiX that way. Turns out that MEPIS and AntiX got together and made MX Linux, so AntiX and MX Linux shares quite a bit.
And of course, I can highly recommend AntiX. It comes with a lot of desktop environments out of the box. But if I were to install a distro that made it easy to use for someone, especially someone older, coming from Windows, then I'd probably try Q4OS.

[Maxume]

I'm kinda ambivalent about the Synaptic Package Manager. The way I see it, it's basically apt with a GUI. It's definitely helped me out in the past but I can't say I use it regularly. Much easier to find things than with apt though.

[ozzie]

Hi. I haven't used Puppy in years, and I never really questioned the idea that it was user-friendly. I do think it can be depending on what software you want and whether you know how to connect to the internet on it.

[jimw]

BUT linux lite is NOT lite on resources. Also puppy linux was the very first distro that I I absolutely love it.

[ronnienanoz]

what happened to puppy linux? did you discuss it?

[optionstraderman]

I switched to Linux Lite many years ago after testing many different versions of linux before leaving Windblows. I have been using Linux Lite for many years now and just updated to the latest version earlier this year. It has been a pretty solid platform for me on my main PC. No regrets... I have also installed MX Linux on my laptop to play with, and it's been fine. I also have installed Peppermint OS on my wife's PC and she has been using that for many years now. Lots of options for sure. As for Linux Lite, watch out for the installation of "Snap" packages instead of normal debian packages. "Snap" packages may require you to reboot the PC before the installed programs will show up and be usable. I too am using an SSD for my boot drive and 4TB WD Red Drives for my main storage with no issues. Good luck in your journey...