On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 12:29 AM, Fungi4All <fungil...@protonmail.com> wrote: > LXDE is much more reliable than lxqt.
LXQT was buggy and broken still a year or so ago. Now it works nicely and looks good. It will finally replace LXDE. It provides a light environment especially if you can use other QT applications. I tried it in both SparkyLinux and Debian testing. Even KDE Plasma 5 is amazingly light when used together with QT applications which is demonstrated nicely by KaOS. Wow! Some people still remember KDE as bloated and slow. It was true with KDE4. > You can have a bootable system with openbox starting at 100MB. But > the momment you open up a fancy browser with 5-10 tabs you better > have a good swap space or it will crash. You can run Dillo or Midori > as a browser one tab at a time, but it is best to get a little more ram. Not really. Half a Gig of RAM is sufficient for heavy browsing with Firefox. Swap space is good to have of course but it doesn't swap too much, meaning the system does not slow down noticeably. The computer I talked about belongs to a friend and has now Mint 13 + XFCE which fittet into a CD back then. It has got no updates for years and thus should be replaced. Programs in a 32-bit system consume less memory than in a 64-bit system. It is understandable because all pointers and some integers in memory are half the size. I also have a Pentium II, 266 MHz, 380MB memory. It is also very usable although such computers are now considered obsolete! It was good for professional CAD work a long time ago. Why would it be obsolete now? It now has an old PCLinuxOS which also should be replaced. Juha
