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Desktop environment: the best for the old boxes
Posted: 10 Jul 2013, 22:36
by francois
I was wandering now that we have such a variety of choice of Desktop environment (DE) to choose from, which would be the fastest or crispiest of desktop for an old box? Your advices are really welcome (I have a pavilion hp laptop 1540ca).
Re: Desktop environment: the best for the old boxes
Posted: 10 Jul 2013, 23:16
by donald
Hi francois
I think it's depending on your taste which DE you use.
On my old Box (cpu=1ghz/ram=1gb) I'm really satisfied with XFCE,
because it's the best mix between speed and functionality.
imho LXDE would be faster
But I have noticed that every new version of firefox slows the System
down a little more.
try them all, and find out, what fits best for your needs
Re: Desktop environment: the best for the old boxes
Posted: 11 Jul 2013, 01:56
by brokenman
For less resource usage you should go with LXDE and a legacy version of firefox. If openbox becomes a reality then this would be the lightest version.
Re: Desktop environment: the best for the old boxes
Posted: 11 Jul 2013, 12:09
by rayyu
Razor-QT is light, it doesn't have as many features but it does the job.
Although an openbox configured crunchbang-style will be the speediest, while still being easy to use
LXDE too
Re: Desktop environment: the best for the old boxes
Posted: 14 Jul 2013, 00:36
by francois
Your comments are appreciated. Thank you.
I have tried lxde, but this is an environment that I really do not know. In dual display, this seemed not to be the best option. So I went for xfce, and my old box is quite happy and to my surprise quite responsive.
The only drawback is when I have to build modules with ppm. It takes an eternity.