atomeOS Compared to Other OSs: atomeOS vs Ubuntu vs Lubuntu

atomeOS vs Ubuntu vs Lubuntu

	Ubuntu	Lubuntu	atomeOS
Based On	Debian Stable	Debian	Debian
Default Desktop Environment	Unity (various editons with MATE, Xfce, LXDE and other)	LXDE	LXQt with various editions as well
Init-System	Systemd	Systemd	Systemd
Official Supported Architectures	i386, amd64	amd64, i686	amd64 (x86-64)
Package manager	dpkg	dpkg	dpkg
Release Schedule	2 Year LTS / 6 Month Releases	2 Year LTS / 6 Month Releases	5 Year LTS / 1 Year Releases

Both atomeOS and Ubuntu share Two Major Important Things:

• Same Core System
• Same Repositories

atomeOS and Ubuntu belong to the same family and talking about each as totally different two systems is not correct since they have some things in common. Thus, we use the same Forum Area and share many Wiki Pages.

atomeOS and Lubuntu also belong to the same family and talking about each as totally different two systems is not correct. They do have things in common apart from the kernel which is more efficient than other distributions.

The differences between atomeOS and Ubuntu are:

• Different DE - atomeOS uses LXQt while Ubuntu uses Unity as the default DE.
• Different Default Applications

Other than that, they are the same. The kernel is what makes atomeOS a lightweight OS, and of course the selected applications too because we make sure to use the lightest applications which are not resource hungry. However, you are still free to use any application available in Ubuntu’s repositories, as long as your computer can run it.

Lubuntu is recognized as a member of the Ubuntu family by the developers of Ubuntu. atomeOS too is being considered to be recognized as the member of the family. We are relatively new so it takes some time.