Hard Disk Space taken up by Lubuntu vs Xubuntu

[Carlos Montemayor]

hey guys! just wanted to ask how much disk space is taken up by a fresh install of Lubuntu, and also Xubuntu. Just wanted to compare...thanks 😀

 

[stillblue]

Lubuntu will be less than Xubuntu. But we're only talking 100-200 mb. Lubuntu aims to give you a good experience with lighter software, office, video and music players and such. For example abiword rather than the more robust libreoffice. So if it's for a hard drive install it's rather moot the size of the install with a modern drive.

They both strive for a lightweight desktop and which is faster is open for debate but abiword is likely going to run faster on a slow system with little RAM than libreoffice.

If you want something really small for a flash drive then you should look at puppy linux. I use it to work on old broken windows systems.