Give Lubuntu a try! It's an LXDE variant of Ubuntu and is very light weight! No unity or bloat.
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(Sep 21, 2012 09:55 PM)Chronocide Wrote: would you mind breifly explaining what a light weight desktop / WM is? :p WM is a window manager. Here's some info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_window_manager (Sep 22, 2012 05:29 AM)tejasmchavan Wrote: Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 are stable ones... But if you don't like the panel feature, go for 11.04... Ubuntu can be classed as a stable distribution, just like windows is considered stable although it's a nightmare due to its insecurities. Compared to Debian, Ubuntu doesn't know the definition of stability. (Sep 22, 2012 10:24 AM)Chronocide Wrote: Okay well I have Debian installed at the moment, I guess I'll uninstall that and try what you said xP Stick with Debian, by far in my opinion the best Linux distribution out there. Debian is incredibly stable, which version did you get? I just installed Debian 6.0.5 with the FreeBSD kernel on my new laptop. Gnome on Debian should be 2.x which is my favourite version even if I don't use it that would be my preference over 3.x and it's also one or two releases forward from when gnome introduced theming. You could use fluxbox WM, or any other WM like I said but I was only stating that because I didn't think the OP would be able to use Debian. On debian you don't have gnome 3 hogging everything and if gnome 2.x is hogging for you then you'll have to back up onto a WM instead of using a DE. It's only essential if you are paranoid about memory usage or if you are running servers.
Remember to get winetricks and playonlinux, they will assist you when trying to get certain games working. It's only really a matter of CPU and RAM usage, if you can do gnome 2.x fine that's alright since most people do. Only got one core and 200MB RAM then yeah i'd say head over to a WM and grab a 3-4GB Swap space partition. SWAP acts as virtual RAM and is also used for hibernation mode so theoretically if you have 4GB+ of ram and don't intend on using the hibernation feature like myself then you don't need a swap partition.
(Sep 22, 2012 12:14 PM)Robby Wrote: Remember to get winetricks and playonlinux, they will assist you when trying to get certain games working. It's only really a matter of CPU and RAM usage, if you can do gnome 2.x fine that's alright since most people do. Only got one core and 200MB RAM then yeah i'd say head over to a WM and grab a 3-4GB Swap space partition. SWAP acts as virtual RAM and is also used for hibernation mode so theoretically if you have 4GB+ of ram and don't intend on using the hibernation feature like myself then you don't need a swap partition. If you have an SSD, you can get "pretty" good performance on the swap partition. (Sep 22, 2012 12:38 PM)Space Ship Rider Wrote: Just get crunch bang. It's based on Debian and Ubutnu.. The early Crunchbang releases were based on Ubuntu and the later were based on Debian. So the current 10.x release is based on Debian. Ubuntu is based on Debian, but made shit and bloated. (Sep 22, 2012 12:42 PM)Bane Wrote: ahh well i have 4gb of RAM and i wasn't really sure what a SWAP partition was so i setup a 4gb swap partition.. im assuming that was too much? >.> You'll be fine, you can't have too much. At least you won't have to worry about being RAM fucked. |
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