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Re: Is Debian still good for GUI stuff in an over 12 yrs. old PC?

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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outdated msie.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

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