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Eeny, meeny, miny, moe pick a Distro by the Toe

A little background, I bought a tripod for my cell phone to record grub start up. Total flop. Now I want to setup Virtualbox and use screen capture of grub booting there.

After problems with libssl 1.1.0 being incompatible with newer kernel headers and Kernel 4.14.34 being incompatible with Virtualbox 5.1 I've finally got it setup where it's now asking me for a bootable CD to install.

So which Distro should I pick?

  • I've allocated 2 GB of RAM even though VB recommended 1 GB of RAM.
  • I've allocated 10 GB of SSD space.

Since all I want to run is sudo update-grub and then reboot and make a GIF with peek of grub booting up, what is the smallest (and reliable) distro to install in VB in Ubuntu 16.04?

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I ended up going with Lubuntu 16.04. I had many problems setting up Virtualbox but I guess everyone does. In the end I had to downgrade x upgrade grub resolution from 1920x1080 to 1600x1200 to record the grub screen:

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Advantages of Lubuntu 16.04 over Manjaro

  • You get the familiar Debian commands like sudo apt install.
  • You can copy many of the same script used in Ubuntu 16.04.
  • If you have questions about Lubuntu many answers are already here in Ask Ubuntu
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