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Finding Lubuntu Searching with the keyword "lubuntu" might be misleading, so to be safe just search for "ubuntu" and go to their official website . Ubuntu (an ancient African word meaning "humanity to others") is currently published by Canonical, so their name is shown on the top of the official website. After clicking the download menu, links to the official website of several Ubuntu flavors are shown. Lubuntu is currently listed among several other recognized flavors, which all share the same Ubuntu core packages with different additional set of packages, each providing a distinct experience. Downloading? Installation? After navigating to the download page of Lubuntu's official website , generally there are two versions available which are LTS (long-term support) and regular/interim/"non-LTS". The LTS version has approximately three years of Lubuntu Team support and then two years of Ubuntu Community supp...

It started back when I was an undergraduate student. I tried several Linux distributions for a short time, but due to compatibility issues with the hardware, I reverted to Windows after I found a free Windows 10 license and Office 365 for students. The stability was good enough for a student that was struggling to finish his undergraduate thesis, so the naive journey to go open source abruptly ended. Recently, it sparked again when I tried to fix my brother's old laptop. The poor thing tragically fell from the bed into the water that flooded our home quite some time ago. Fortunately, the board is still functional, so after it received a hard drive and WiFi card donation from another laptop, it flung back to life. The old hard drive contained a Windows 7 operating system which was no longer supported by Microsoft, so I tried to find an alternative.  Good Ol' Windows The familiarity of using Windows operating systems went back to the early days of my interaction wi...