TP-Link USB Wireless

[Georgetoon]

Plugged in the new memory.  I now have 2 gigs on this system.  I also bought a wireless card (same brand TP-Link - PCI card) and plugged that in.  I figured it might help rather than running though USB. Plus, I could use the spare port.

Things are much snappier and faster. Chromium opens all tabs with no problems and no more "disk sleep" messages in the system Activity center.   I'm playing Clemetine audio player and have four open tabs in Chromium at the moment I'm typing this. 

And this is in KDE.  I'll give LXDE a go in a bit. 

[Georgetoon]

Wow!  LXDE is FAST!  Wow!  I have to customize it a bit further.  i logged out and back into KDE because my strt menu in LXDE went POOF!  Disappeared.

But other than that!  I big contender right now for this system. 

i need to run KMyMoney and i really love dolphin and it's multiple panels. 

[Just17]

You can run Dolphin in LXDE if you have both KDE & LXDE installed, which I believe you have.

I have been looking at EDE (testing) recently as a lightweight DE

Equinox Desktop Environment (EDE) is desktop environment - the piece of
software that enables you to launch applications in a convenient way,
show what windows you have opened, manages icons and background of your
desktop, etc. This core package provides panel with tasklist, clock,
load status; icon manager that take care of your icons on background,
control panel for easy access to your settings, sound volume control,
color configuration, panel configuration, menu editor, icons configuration,
tips, time/date and timezone configuration, fast file search tool and of
course window manager that manages your windows with config utility.

It is sparse ....  but fast