LXLE still good for older devices?
from actionjbone@sh.itjust.works to linux@lemmy.ml on 07 Dec 2023 06:44
https://sh.itjust.works/post/10562764

A few years ago, LXLE was my distro of choice for older hardware.

I haven’t used it in a while, and now I’m trying to revive an HP Stream (AMD/4GB RAM/32GB SSD).

Anything else I might want to try first, or is LXLE still considered good for lightweight/feature rich?

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cerement@slrpnk.net on 07 Dec 2023 07:24 next collapse

  • don’t know enough about LXLE itself as a distro
  • but LXDE should effectively be considered “end of life”, the developer is in the process of porting everything over to Qt and working on releases of LXQt
  • with that, for a full DE – Xfce if you like GTK, LXQt if you like Qt
  • or a minimal setup with a WM plus utilities (like Openbox or one of the large selection of tiling window managers)
  • along those lines though, there are still a LOT of lightweight Linux distros to choose from
    • Crunchbangplusplus or BunsenLabs – successors to Crunchbang Linux – usually just Openbox WM and a few utils rather than a full DE
    • plain old Debian stable – proprietary drivers are now part of the installer, no more hunting for a special ISO – can choose your DE or WM during install
    • Alpine Linux – popular for server and container installs, but has its fans for desktop
    • DistroWatch’s selection for Old Computers – LXLE is still on the list
squaresinger@feddit.de on 07 Dec 2023 07:45 next collapse

I can second Xfce. I’m using it on the chroot Linux I run on my phone. It doesn’t get much lower end than that, and Xfce performs perfectly.

And it feels much more polished than LXDE.

actionjbone@sh.itjust.works on 07 Dec 2023 17:05 collapse

Thanks for all this info. It’ll help me catch up, I’ll check out your links.

[deleted] on 07 Dec 2023 12:46 next collapse

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actionjbone@sh.itjust.works on 07 Dec 2023 17:07 next collapse

I appreciate your response. it’s good to know I’m safe running what I know. And cerement gave me some good info so I can learn more about different distros. :)

actionjbone@sh.itjust.works on 09 Dec 2023 00:18 collapse

I tried installing LXLE - and in spite of multiple attempts, it simply refuses to install the boot files into the boot partition. 🤣

So I suppose it’s getting a different flavor, after all

Presi300@lemmy.world on 09 Dec 2023 10:55 collapse

Try AntiX or MXLinux