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Hi. Is there any good step-by-step guide for a total beginner to Lubuntu? The guide should contain:

1. How to install, especially what to do in case you cannot boot or install properly (at least known solutions for the most common problems)

2. What to do immediately after install. What is the proper order of updating the system, graphic card drivers, adding repositories (restricted included) for multimedia (flash, java, video codecs etc.), fonts, setting the desktop resolution properly etc.

3. When should the user just use GUI interface and when is terminal needed. For example, in Mint I couldn't set the desktop resolution right until I used 'gksu nvidia-settings'. Simply selecting the desktop from the GUI didn't make it last after the next PC restart.

4. How to set Wine and Winetricks properly for some Windows apps/games.

5. How to speed the system and clean unnecessary files, what updates are safe (like Mint shows levels of safety) etc.

Such a very nice guide, but for Linux Mint, is already here: https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/8
Still, a similar one for Lubuntu, and maybe in simpler terms would be very nice and it would help a lot of newcomers transitioning from Windows.

Thank you.

I think you need to understand that Lubuntu is the core of Ubuntu+LXDE.

Lubuntu vs Ubuntu
Both Lubuntu and Ubuntu share Two Major Important Things:

Same Core System
Same Repositories
Lubuntu 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.

The differences between Lubuntu and Ubuntu are:

Different DE - Lubuntu uses LXDE while Ubuntu uses Unity as the default DE.
Different Default Applications
Other than that, they are the same. The DE is what makes Lubuntu 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 the Ubuntu family by the developers of Ubuntu.

As of 14.04, long term support (LTS) versions are available.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu

Much of what is said about Ubuntu, and Linux Mint, which is based on Ubuntu, will work with Lubuntu.

An important thing is that Lubuntu uses LXDE Desktop and certain lighter applications. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubun ... plications .If you start to install Gnome or KDE or Xfce4 packages you risk pulling down Ubuntu,Kubuntu or Xubuntu. So look at the site you quote, https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid ... l%20ubuntu , http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/ and http://lxlinux.com/ to begin with...

In addition to what arochester has said, you should remember that these guides are written by people who have particular needs. Unless you have the same needs much of what they write or recommend may not apply to you. Determine what you want your computer to do and set it up to your needs. If you need assistance ask specific questions. There are plenty of Ubuntu guides out there. Just use Google and they will be there, remembering that the core and the repositories are practically identical.