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Porteus is a portable distro designed and optimized to run from removable media such as a USB flash drive, SD card or even optical media like a CD. You can also flesh out the distro using mintInstall package manager. These are complimented by several traditional desktop apps as well such as the Firefox web browser. In the latest release, Ice now has support for isolated profiles for Firefox, Chromium, Chrome, and Vivaldi SSBs.Ī number of web apps are set up out of the box, including Microsoft Office Online, Google apps and which uses WebGL to provide a glorious 3D chess experience. The SSB webapps have a minimal browser interface and some of them really look well integrated into the desktop. Peppermint’s USP is the home-brewed tool called ICE, which can turn websites into web apps, technically known as Site Specific Browsers or SSBs, and roll them into the application menu. It also uses Xfce’s window manager, menu and panel, keeping to the traditional desktop metaphor, while still allowing a few modern conveniences like type-to-search in the menu. This is a fast and lightweight distro that uses the LXDE desktop, although its developers are quite happy to cherry pick elements from other desktops, such as the use of the Nemo file manager from Cinnamon for its handling of network shares. Peppermint is a lightweight Linux distro based mostly from packages in the Ubuntu repositories along with some key components from Linux Mint.

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You can use it to free up memory, remove older kernels and install new ones. One of the most useful ones is Lite Tweaks, which helps users with common admin tasks.

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There’s a welcome screen that enables users to install updates and drivers, and set up a backup restore point, a program to help upgrade to the latest release, and another to manage users. In fact, the distro includes several homebrewed Lite-branded tools for interacting and customizing various aspects of the desktop and the installation. On top of this you can also easily pull in other popular programs such as Kodi, Skype, Steam, Spotify and more using the custom Lite Software application. Its list of pre-installed programs doesn’t include any of the traditional lightweight apps and is instead brimming with the usual suspects such as GIMP, Firefox, VLC and LibreOffice. Linux Lite looks and feels like a regular mainstream distro.

The distro offers a good compromise between speed and functionality, and exposes all useful desktop features while still being responsive and fast. The Ubuntu-based distro uses the Xfce desktop with aesthetically pleasing modifications. In our opinion, Linux Lite is one of the best options for accelerating regular desktop Linux tasks.

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