Linux Lite is a beginner-friendly Linux distribution. This Light-weight os can be installed on your older machines and modern machines both. The distro comes with a set of applications installed and so you don’t need to work around and find out applications. Additionally, if you want to install any application then you have full access to Ubuntu repositories which contains more than 40,000 applications. Linux Lite is based on Ubuntu (LTS) releases, which means you don’t have to change it for 5 years. The support is pretty good. If you have any query or difficulty you can simply read guides or post question in the forum. When you install and open Linux Lite, you see an opening window telling to start here, get support and contribute. Do not ignore this window, this can be very helpful. Click each link and find articles on how to do in Linux Lite and get support from the community forum. The latest development release is Linux Lite 2.6 Beta which includes improvements and changes. Although there can be some bugs you can report the bugs to help developers.

Linux Lite stable version is also available which was released a couple of months back with improvements and new features. There is added support for exFAT, Android MTPFS, VPN connections, and NTP to name a few. You get the latest Whisker Menu, there’s a new default Terminal theme, and the Windows (Super) key now opens the Menu. If you want to see the complete changelog then go to the official announcement.

Linux Lite comes with XFCE desktop environment which is favorite for most Linux users. Check out our favorite desktop environment POLL Result or read 5 Best Linux Desktop Environment.

The look of the distro is pretty much like Windows which feels friendly to newbies’ eyes. The menu button in the bottom left corner pops up menu. And taskbar has beautiful icons of the currently open windows. In the right bottom corner, trey displays network manager, battery status, keyboard, and sound manager.