The world (your computer in this place) is your playground and your limit. And should you be up for it, you can throw out that DM too, and simply use xinit. Should you for reasons unknown want to go with a distro known to be "heavier", such as Ubuntu, you can speed it up greatly by throwing out that nasty DE and replace it for something lighter, be it i3, dwm, openbox or xfce. Unless you're using a single core CPU with a wooping clock speed of 1 ghz and a single gb ram, you won't actually be requiring LIGHT distros. This is my opinion only, and your mileage may vary, but we have seemingly matching specs (CPU-wise, I'm assuming you have about the same amount of RAM as I do), and I've tried many different distros on this machine, hardly any lagged.
You never told us how much RAM you have, but I'll assume you have 4 gb. The ISO image weighs in at a minuscule 40 MB. If you value usability and speed, SliTaz might be your pick. Its extremely fast, even on older machines, capable of running completely in memory. No lag noticed from day-to-day usage at all here.no reboots either for that sake my machines stay on 24/7 The SliTaz distro seeks to be both simple and versatile, usable as an everyday desktop or a server. Total used free shared buff/cache availableĪvg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idleĪs you can see, I don't try to get the usage down on this machine at all, and it performs fairly well. These are my stats, with a pdf reader, discord, brave with 6 tabs open and steam. I have 5 gb ram (added another gb for no apparent reason) and an Intel Pentium P6200 CPU. I run Debian on a slightly older box than yours. Raspberry Foundation via various vendors.More general: /r/buildapc or /r/hardware.If you notice any problems or think a comment/submission was wrongfully removed, message the mods Browse Categories Be excellent to each other and have fun.No hard and fast rules as such, posts will be treated on their own merit.
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