I know this is not exactly considered a smart move by tech-savvy people like you guys, but I travel a lot and I noticed that using Lubuntu's lightweight environnement helped with battery life. A lot. And sometimes all I need is a word processor, nothing else. I tried installing LXDE desktop but ended up with a very messy desktop...(I'm not an expert). My dream configuration would include the option to choose between OSs at startup and a shared partition.
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You really don't need a separate install with shared partitions and whatnot.
If you have already installed Ubuntu, what you would need is to install lubuntu-core and because many dependencies are shared with Ubuntu's regular DE, this won't install a lot of extra packages, just the core Lubuntu packages, like pcmanfm (actually, this is the only noticeable addition). From a terminal you would type in:
sudo apt-get install lubuntu-core
Otherwise, there are plenty guides out there and even answers on this site that show you how to install Ubuntu alongside another system, for example, see How can I install Ubuntu 'alongside' Lubuntu?
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