Hello from southern Az.
Had 2 old machines running Win XP, so started looking into Linux to keep them going as spares.
Put Lubuntu on both & was pretty happy, though I had a few problems getting both to my liking.
I briefly tried Linux 5 yrs. ago (Ubuntu, Mepis) but came back to Windows.
Last night I installed Mint 17 KDE as dual-boot w/ Win7 on my main computer. I like it & it looks great; but after using it for several hrs. it seemed kinda sluggish.
So I'm googling for a distro to put on this main rig that looks good & won't be as sluggish as Mint & I stumble
onto LXLE. Looks like just what the Dr. ordered.
Tonight I will try to install it to replace Mint & might also install the 32bit on one of the spares.
I'm very much a Linux newbie & I'm sure I'll be back with a lot of dumb questions.
Big thanks to the guys who put this together!

I am a total and complete Linux noob, if something of a Windows tech-head.

Hi!

I'm an unemployed college student with an ancient, relic of a computer, one step up from an abacus I think, that used to run WindowsXP. After XP became so maddengly slow and re-installation only helped for a short time, I shopped around with Google, assuming I would have to replace it. I was going to look at Macs, but omygosh the prices were outrageous. Google brought me a surprise called "Linux for Human Beings," and I ordered one of their CDs. It was wonderful, but butt-ugly until I learned how to change it, and as Ubuntu evolved it got heavier and heavier until it was as slow as XP. Ubu 9.04 was cool, but by the time it got to 10.04 I was playing with "ligtweight" desktop environments to keep my computer out of the landfill.  LXDE positively sucked in those days; buggy, halting, and ugly.  KDE, well, forget about it. I became an Xfce / Xubuntu fanboy until 14.04, when even my beloved favorite distro was acting like XP did.  I thought of just going back to 12.04 which was "okay," but I thought I'd look around a little first.

I found MX-14, a wonderful little Xfce distro built from Debian Stable. The "successor and rightful heir" of Mepis, taking it's name from it's noble heritage (Mepis / AntiX), it ran wonderfully until some kinda update crippled it.  I still dual boot into it because I love me some Xfce, but only if I need to do just minimal stuff. Looking around some more I found LXLE!

My first thought was, "No way. LXDE was buggy as hell last time." But I was intrigued by the screenshots and looked into it a little deeper.  I liked everything I read, including the developer's frank opinion of the new LXQt thing ("a fat pig," he called it, vowing to stay away from it as long as possible). Ha!  An honest developer who calls 'em like he sees 'em. Cool. So I decided to dual boot (never did it before and I'm a true technophobe so this was a really big deal for me). Wow.

I'm not a very good Linux reviewer, although some folks who have read my early blogs about distros liked them (my blog: A Technophobe's Confessions). So don't read it like a review, it's just my little story about how LXDE has become my favorite distro. Enjoy!

Greetings. Recent convert to Linux after finally tiring of my Acer Aspire One D257's efforts at coping with the demands of Win7 Starter. Not the machine's fault because FINALLY it's performing how I'd hoped it would a few years back. Still experimenting with various ISOs but LXLE is comfortably my favourite system to date.

Howdy LXLE fans!