▲ 83 ▼ What's the best light desktop env to install in a Linux distro? (lemmy.ml) submitted 2 years ago by Crying4625@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml 78 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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?
[–] Crying4625@lemmy.ml [S] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Yeah I'll check LXQT. It's been a long time since I thinkered with distros an DEs. Thanks permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dasenboy@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago By the way, you might also investigate window managers, which aren't as full-featured as DE's but are even lighter on resources. Back in the day before KDE and Gnome, I used Window Maker , which is based on Steve Job's NextStep's UI. Only works with X, not Wayland, though. https://www.windowmaker.org/ permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dasenboy@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago By the way, you might also investigate window managers, which aren't as full-featured as DE's but are even lighter on resources. Back in the day before KDE and Gnome, I used Window Maker , which is based on Steve Job's NextStep's UI. Only works with X, not Wayland, though. https://www.windowmaker.org/ permalink fedilink source parent