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What's the best light desktop env to install in a Linux distro? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 4 months ago by Crying4625@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I want to revive an old Lenovo laptop with an AMD A6 2.6GHz and 4GB ram, what would be the best option for a DE?

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[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 months ago (5 children)
  • the big guns: Gnome or Plasma
  • the middle tier: Xfce or LXQt
  • the lightweights: tiling window managers (and there’s a LOT to choose from)
  • the alternative crowd: Mate, Cinnamon, Regolith
[–] Crying4625@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I think gnome and KDE Plasma are just too heavy. And I would use a WM if it was for me, in fact that what I use in my daily driver but it is for someone not that tech savvy. I may check one from the alternative crowd tho. Thanks for the answer

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

plasma is surprisingly performant

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago

I seem to remember hearing about Plasma having similar memory usage to XFCE. Don’t quote me on that lol

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Try KDE Plasma, you can strip out a ton of it, for example XOrg entirely, baloo, animations, etc.

[–] krash@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Got any guides on how to strip plasma down to the bare necessities? I have it on a machine with 4 GB RAM, but I don't know how to optimize it for such old hardware.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago

I updated this project once. This is a very good start on what packages you need.

There are metapackages different for each distribution, like plasma-meta on Arch or plasma-workspace on Fedora.

This may be too bloated, but leaving out some core components (like infocenter or display) may result in random Systemsettings pages missing.

Also on Fedora, the "Netinstall" "minimal" variant is impossible to include wireless packages ("hardware support" group) so it is easier to start from a normal KDE install and just remove things you dont need.

Some things are also settings like balooctl disable && balooctl purge

[–] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago

OP asked for desktop env, and tiling window managers are... Well only window managers and not desktop environments...

[–] sturlabragason@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I like MATE. It feels familiar. (I’m a GNOME user 😅)

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 1 points 4 months ago
  • the alternative crowd: Mate, Cinnamon, Regolith

Middle tier too.

[–] mr_pip@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago

not sure, if cinnamon still qualifies as alternative considering the massive Linux Mint crowd.