Are we lightweight? Let's ask the Internet.

[Artim]

I'm a big fan of Xubuntu.  Right out of the wrapper it's configured almost exactly the way I like my own Xfce desktop.  It's very nimble and quick on modest hardware, and of course it has those wonderful, vast Ubuntu software repositories.  It used to ship with Synaptic Package Manager, but now it's using "software manager" which is okay, but I prefer Synaptic, so I add it. 

The only PPA I've added is Ubuntuzilla so I can get my beloved Seamonkey suite and keep it updated.  One of my pet peeves is the addition of a zillion and twelve PPAs to any distro (LXLE and Linux Lite both do this), especially for software that is already available in the Ubuntu repositories anyway!  "Yeah but not the latest and greatest version," you might say.  Exactly.  The latest version might not even work on an "older" OS like 18.04, which Linux Lite 4.x is built from.  Why make unwitting Beta testers out of newbies?!  I don't get why some Ubuntu-based distros do that, especially since the Ubuntu software repositories are the largest in the entire galaxy.  It's no wonder that update problems are always an issue.

Linux Lite is unique in a lot of very cool ways.  The Welcome screen, user manual, and cool tools are the best ever, anywhere.  The highly modified Xfce desktop is genuinely original and super cool.  Better IMO for new users than Linux Mint by about 1000%.  But I'll always be a Xubuntu fanboy as well.