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Xfce Desktop Environment

Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly.

Homepage: https://www.xfce.org/

I. Create new user:

Step 1:
Ubuntu: how to create sudo user

Step 1b (option): Add your user to tty group
gpasswd -a tutorialspots tty

II. Install xfce

Step 2: Install xfce

sudo apt install xubuntu-desktop

Result:

...
Setting up indicator-sound (12.10.2+18.10.20180612-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for dbus (1.12.16-2ubuntu2.1) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.15-1) ...
Setting up gnome-software (3.36.1-0ubuntu0.20.04.0) ...
Setting up onboard-data (1.4.1-2ubuntu7) ...
Processing triggers for udev (245.4-4ubuntu3.11) ...
Setting up nautilus-extension-gnome-terminal (3.36.2-1ubuntu1~20.04) ...
Setting up unity-settings-daemon (15.04.1+20.04.20200325-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up indicator-session (17.3.20+19.10.20190921-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up indicator-datetime (15.10+20.04.20200217-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up xubuntu-desktop (2.233) ...
Setting up mate-calc (1.24.0-1) ...
Processing triggers for install-info (6.7.0.dfsg.2-5) ...
Setting up gnome-software-plugin-snap (3.36.1-0ubuntu0.20.04.0) ...
Setting up apturl (0.5.2ubuntu19) ...
Setting up engrampa (1.24.0-2) ...
Processing triggers for fontconfig (2.13.1-2ubuntu3) ...
Setting up unity-gtk3-module:amd64 (0.0.0+18.04.20171202-0ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24-1ubuntu3) ...
Setting up unity-greeter (18.04.0+20.04.20200312-0ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.136ubuntu6.6) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-81-generic

Done!

Step 3 (option): sudo apt-get install xfonts-base

Step 4 (option): apt install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-modesetting -y