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?

  • @[email protected]
    11•1 year ago
    • 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
    • Square Singer
      4•1 year ago

      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.