- The term Xubuntu refers to the permutation software of Ubuntu, which uses the XFCE desktop environment, and its operational goals are similar to Ubuntu.
- In this tutorial we’ll cover how to install XFCE desktop environment or Xubuntu, which is an Ubuntu flavor, on Ubuntu 20.04/22.04.
- Xubuntu 18.04 has been released recently and this time it is an LTS (Long Term Support) version, hence you will get updates and support until April 2021.
- Xubuntu is an Ubuntu-based OS which uses the Xfce desktop environment. Xubuntu is also an officially recognized flavour of Ubuntu, which was released earlier...
- But if you need more (usually proprietary) codecs for exotic file formats, you can always install the ubuntu-restricted-extras package and enjoy all that content.
- You can update your system with unsupported packages from this untrusted PPA by adding ppa:xubuntu-dev/ppa to your system's Software Sources.
- You’ll also learn how to convert your Ubuntu desktop into Xubuntu desktop. Yes, there is a difference between installing Xfce and Xubuntu desktop.
- Xubuntu is Ubuntu with lighter XFCE which is an elegant and easy-to-use operating system and is known as a derivative of the Ubuntu operating system.