Lubuntu is decent. LXDE is far "lighter" than XFCE, and such things do matter eg if you are running multiple VMs. tho i use TWM mostly, beats both by miles. but the UI choice pales vs browsing. chrome is perhaps slightly lighter than firefox, but again that pales vs how and what you browse. things like multiple tabs or the gmail web interface are what burn your ram. On Nov 11, 2011 2:30 AM, "Mike Miller" <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, Jason Hsu wrote: > > The bloatware of Ubuntu is enough to scare me off. Linux Mint Debian >> Edition with GNOME feels faster with only 512 MB of RAM than X/Ubuntu feels >> with 2 GB of RAM. Ubuntu has finally caught up with Windows when it comes >> to hardware requirements. >> > > > Have you tried Lubuntu? It's Light Ubuntu, I guess. It was mentioned in > the article. I haven't tried it and know nothing that wasn't in the > article. > > Mike > ______________________________**_________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/**mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20111111/962b7082/attachment.html>