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submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago
  • 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
[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

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

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