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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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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is the A6 from 2017/18? Should be fine with anything. My wife's laptop is from 2010/11. I tried all the DEs because of the lightness claims, I found GNOME worked the best, and it is super peppy running NixOS.

I asked online why GNOME would perform better than what is assumed a lighter DE, and a comouter dude says GNOME goes and gets everything it needs and caches it when you launch something so retrieval is faster in the app, KDE loads stuff on demand as it is asked for so a alow CPU and HDD hinderes KDE for me.

if you can afford it, by 4 more gigs of RAM

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Get an SSD as it will make your life way better

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I did that later but this laptop only supports SATA II speeds so it helped, but isn't game changing like it would be on SATA III speeds

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Does it have a PCIe slot for an extra WiFi card? You might be able to adapt it.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

No it's too old and cheap for extra slots. But for 2011 it runs office stuff, zoom calls, etc perfectly fine. With w10 it was a complete brick.