Which is better- Linux Mint 19.3 MATE or Linux Lite 5.2? I would appreciate answers from people who have used both these Ubuntu based distros for a fair amount of time.

Thought you were using Bodhi?
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ux-4175683872/

And *TELLING* people that we 'must answer' you is fairly rude. There is no 'better' between the two...there is what you prefer and what works best on your hardware. You don't say anything about your hardware, why you select those two specific things to compare, or what your criteria is to determine what 'best' means.

Well, English is not my first language but I try to choose my words carefully. Being rude was not my intention. I was just telling people to answer from their experience not what they've read in articles and watched in distro review videos.
I used Bodhi Linux for 2 weeks, then used Linux Mint 19.3 MATE for about a month and yesterday I installed Linux Lite 5.2. I'm using Dell Inspiron N4010 Laptop with Intel i3 2.53 GHz (64 bit CPU), 3 GB RAM, 320 GB HDD, Intel HD Graphics (around 1 GB). My laptop is around 10 years old.
After installing linux, I think I've learnt some things. I learnt a few commands as well, downloaded a few application software that runs in terminal. My user experience has been good.
Apologies if you think that I was rude.

It's best not to come to a volunteer forum, and 'tell' people what kinds of answers/who you want to hear from.
Again, there is no way to quantify "best" in any meaningful way. Bohdi is based on Ubuntu, as is Mint and Lite. I'd strongly suggest not bouncing from distro to distro, and instead learn about the underlying OS.

Ubuntu based distros have many of the same system commands, but some may be different on other distros (yum on Red Hat/Fedora; apt on Debian/Ubuntu; zypper on openSUSE, etc.), but they all do pretty much the same things. And 99% of what you actually USE is the same no matter what. A shell script is the same on anything, and most all of the commands are identical. GUI's work the same on all of them too...KDE is the same on any distro, as is Gnome, etc. There is never going to be a 'best.

Your CPU should be fine, but I'd suggest getting more RAM, and you should be able to run pretty much any distro easily.

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Parmanand Motiramani, I understand it probably wasn't your intention to be rude, but beyond that I agree with TB0ne - your question is just too open-ended.

If "Someone who has used both these Ubuntu based distros for a fair amount of time" reads your OP, I'm sure they will come forward (though re-phrasing the "must answer" bit couldn't hurt).
Personally, my distro-hopping days are over.

Is "should" okay instead of "must"?

Stay focused on your question; again, there is no 'best'. I would avoid older releases of anything, and load current instead.

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Remove " must answer" from the end and put something like "I would appreciate answers from " at the start of the sentence and you would be saying what you intended without being rude.

However, as pointed out, it's still not a question anyone can really answer - "better" generally requires some objective criteria to be measured against, and you've not described what is meaningful to you.

Someone who has used both OSes might come along and say X is better, but if they have different goals/use cases to you then it doesn't help.

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I use my laptop for general use (make and edit documents, watch videos, play songs, surf internet and use social media websites, read books, etc.). The most used application software on my laptop will probably be Firefox.
I stopped playing games on it as it had overheating issues. I stopped using Windows because CPU Usage was high sometimes(90-100%).

Ok...so again, pretty much ANY distro of Linux will work. Again, I'd get more RAM for your current system, and I'd probably open it up and clean it, since you're having overheating issues. If you've never cleaned the system, chances are it's loaded with dust.

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