Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "J.O. Aho" Newsgroups: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions Subject: Re: Is Debian still good for GUI stuff in an over 12 yrs. old PC? Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 14:08:06 +0200 Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net /HH8l5SUqz5AB0/Q0njzcA2GqebH61MNdS/rFmw5A9YJ8CgOgR Cancel-Lock: sha1:J/HMsXNyE5pLQDOgOPbIK8Ted8I= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US-large Xref: csiph.com alt.os.linux:70888 alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions:11 On 01/09/2021 11.23, Soviet_Mario wrote: > Il 31/08/21 07:59, J.O. Aho ha scritto: >> If you want to use graphical interface, then go for something light >> like Enlightenment > > but is the aforesaid a DM or a graphic login manager ? It's a DE, for DM just go with the default, they don't take too much CPU and memory. >> or IceWM, > > I agree it is light. > In MX and Devuan (a debian buster with another init system) I also tried > Fluxbox and LXQt (formerly LXDE). All af these are sensibly lighter and > faster than the "medium" weight XFCE (that I regularly use). > > The actual problem are other SW, like the web browser, grown crazily > huge and heavy ... There are a good chunk of light weight browsers too, sure you will lack some features, but at least better than ms-win-xp with an long time outdated msie. -- //Aho