Questions about Lite, mainly Ubuntu privacy oriented

[Artim]

I tend to think of it as "Xubuntu done right," because it has the Xfce desktop, but very highly modified to make it easy on older, modest hardware.

It's also particularly "newbie friendly," more than any other distro I know (and I know several!).  As a sufferer from "moderate-to-severe technophobia," I especially enjoy the simplicity of this very thoughtfully modified Xfce desktop, and it's fast and nimble on my old relic Dell Dimension with not even 1 GB of RAM.