Xubuntu has been my go-to distro for the past couple years. I put it on my main machine, my secondary machine, my wife's old laptop, my old laptop... There were a couple times where I distrohopped to Kubuntu, but I kept finding myself going back to Xubuntu, once due to visual bugs I couldn't fix, another time because Kubuntu 22.04 -> 24.04 update broke my install. 

I was about to finally update my wife's Xubuntu 22.04 install to 24.04, but I then I remembered what happened when I tried to upgrade the "normal" way (through the GUI notification) on my old Kubuntu install... as well as my old laptop's first Xubuntu install... both failed updating halfway through and broke the install altogether. I think it was because I removed snap on both of them. With snap being more and more integrated into Ubuntu with every release, I realized that I can't keep doing this whole "upgrade fail --> reinstall --> remove snaps --> upgrade fail" ritual every two years, so I accepted that it's time to ditch Ubuntu and go to either Debian or Mint (the software I use for one of my hobbies only officially supports Ubuntu, so that limits me to Debian-based distros)

But I will always have a soft spot for Xubuntu. I got acquainted with it because I first used Ubuntu at work, and I liked aspects of Linux enough that I wanted to try daily driving it, eventually got frustrated with GNOME and ended up distrohopping to Xubuntu and it ended up becoming my favorite distro. Something about the non-flat Greybird UI and the Mac-like layout reminded me of how Mac desktops used to look in the late 90's and early 2000's (though I'm sure if you did a side-by-side comparison it would look completely different lol).

I am sad to let Xubuntu go, but will remember it fondly through Linux Mint Xfce!

\* Appearance theme - Greybird (https://github.com/shimmerproject/Greybird)  
\* Window Manager theme - Greybird-hdpi (https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1204333) (using hdpi version because I'm on a laptop)  
\* Icon theme - Elementary Xfce (https://github.com/Xubuntu/xubuntu-artwork)  
\* Background - from Xubuntu (https://github.com/Xubuntu/xubuntu-artwork)

Goodbye Xubuntu, I'll never forget you