I informally compared Xubuntu and Lubuntu a while back and did not
find a significant difference between them in terms of responsiveness
and memory use. I found that Debian Wheezy with Gnome 3 to be about
the same responsiveness and unexpectedly a bit lighter in memory use.
All on same hardware.
On 25 September 2014 14:41, Lisi <hantslug@???> wrote:
> On Thursday 25 September 2014 14:03:58 Imran Chaudhry wrote:
>> Gnome 3 has some 3D stuff but it's pretty subtle and practical use of
>> it imho. It's lighter than people think and I would not worry too much
>> - the Intel 915GM graphics chipset that laptop has should cope fine.
>
> I'd have thought that something lighter would be better. My vote would go to
> TDE, of course, but there are others available: E.g. Mate, LXDE, XFCE, to
> name but a few that are in the repositories.
>
> Lisi
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