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Re: best light de?
« Reply #15 on: March 24, 2010, 03:04:09 PM »
Whichever works for you  8)

The remasters of LXDE and e17 are very good but soon you miss some features when you install them you need to know what other things pull from the repos in order to keep "light" your install.

In my experience KDE4 with task enlightenment is a good combination, faster than KDE4 alone )at least in my dual core laptop) and I can run KDE4 apps. At home I'm trying PCLinuxOS e17 beta with some gnome apps in a P IV and it flies.

I used the last stable version of LXDE in P III 256MB and works fine.
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Re: best light de?
« Reply #16 on: March 28, 2010, 09:08:25 AM »
I installed icewm and fluxbox on my Dell 500mhz/384meg ram, and I am very impressed and happy.
The gang did a great job on those two, so much so that I'm changing to those on my main machines.
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Re: best light de?
« Reply #17 on: March 28, 2010, 10:40:18 AM »
I will keep you name at hand  >:(  you just broadened the choices for me and I have to work too....

Good for you  :D  I will try them, I know of some old PC' s that would benefit from it.  Thank you.
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Re: best light de?
« Reply #18 on: March 29, 2010, 08:37:15 AM »
I have a couple questions that relate to this.

1- what is the order in "lightness" of these desktops...my guess heavy to light
kde4
gnome
gnome zen-min
xfce
e17
lxde


2- Is there any noticeable speed increase by using a "light" desktop on a machine with plenty of ram.  I ask this, because I have an older laptop (about 6 years old), but I have 1g of ram.  Also on my main desktop I have a core2 duo with 3gb of ram.  I am wondering if I will get any performance increases with the lighter desktops?

thanks
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Re: best light de?
« Reply #19 on: April 05, 2010, 11:26:05 PM »
between gnome and gnome zen afik there is little difference, less things present on log in but you can remove so much stuff from gnome that is almost the same the minimal task-gnome

e17 is heavier than xfce but lxde seems to be the most light of that list

kde4 is on the top but is not far from gnome

so it should be

kde4
gnome
e17
xfce
lxde

icewm and fluxbox should be on that list, it sounds like a joke but when you want the fastest and more light desktop, it is a real option
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Re: best light de?
« Reply #20 on: April 06, 2010, 08:21:49 AM »
Thanks.  That does make a difference.  I will probably stick to xfce for my lightweight desktop.
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