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The distribution itself shouldn't really matter. Yes, there are some specialized distributions for these cases, where developers work hard on saving as many memory as possible, but the downside of ...
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GeraldS
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2025-12-02T13:33:20Z (10 months ago)
fixed a typo
- The distribution itself shouldn't really matter. Yes, there are some specialized distributions for these cases, where developers work hard on saving as many memory as possible, but the downside of these distributions is that they are not used by many people.
IMO more important than that is which software is running when you use it. Choose a lightweight desktop environment like XFCE or LDE and you should be pretty good. KDE and Gnome are memory hogs, avoiding them will earn you a lot. Same for other programs, instead of Chromium or Gnome choose something like Epiphany or Midori and you save even more memory. Of course featurewise they are not on par with the mainstream browsers, but you have to make some sacrifices with such a low end system.- The baseline is, choose a distribution you are comfortable with using and that has a large user base and configure it to run lightweight system components. A large user base will make it much easier to get help, and they will also help you trimming down the system. Heck, chances are that there already are guides for this for popular distributions. You are not the first with this goal.
- The distribution itself shouldn't really matter. Yes, there are some specialized distributions for these cases, where developers work hard on saving as many memory as possible, but the downside of these distributions is that they are not used by many people.
- IMO more important than that is which software is running when you use it. Choose a lightweight desktop environment like XFCE or LDE and you should be pretty good. KDE and Gnome are memory hogs, avoiding them will earn you a lot. Same for other programs, instead of Chromium or Firefox choose something like Epiphany or Midori and you save even more memory. Of course featurewise they are not on par with the mainstream browsers, but you have to make some sacrifices with such a low end system.
- The baseline is, choose a distribution you are comfortable with using and that has a large user base and configure it to run lightweight system components. A large user base will make it much easier to get help, and they will also help you trimming down the system. Heck, chances are that there already are guides for this for popular distributions. You are not the first with this goal.
#1: Initial revision
by
GeraldS
·
2025-08-13T05:14:16Z (about 1 year ago)
The distribution itself shouldn't really matter. Yes, there are some specialized distributions for these cases, where developers work hard on saving as many memory as possible, but the downside of these distributions is that they are not used by many people. IMO more important than that is which software is running when you use it. Choose a lightweight desktop environment like XFCE or LDE and you should be pretty good. KDE and Gnome are memory hogs, avoiding them will earn you a lot. Same for other programs, instead of Chromium or Gnome choose something like Epiphany or Midori and you save even more memory. Of course featurewise they are not on par with the mainstream browsers, but you have to make some sacrifices with such a low end system. The baseline is, choose a distribution you are comfortable with using and that has a large user base and configure it to run lightweight system components. A large user base will make it much easier to get help, and they will also help you trimming down the system. Heck, chances are that there already are guides for this for popular distributions. You are not the first with this goal.