I feel like I've been gaslit into running FOSS but every success only brings me closer to fighting god
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Congrats! Your laptop will be even happier with a lighter but still nice-looking desktop environment like Xfce and you even have an Ubuntu flavor around it: Xubuntu.
I can be swayed easily! I’ll throw it on the list!
Xubuntu is still too heavy, you have to strip it further and go for Lubuntu. Nothing like a 400 MB idle memory load on the desktop
My xubuntu is at 380MB idling on the desktop. Also, thanks for making me check. I should probably disable
snapd.I've had sub 200s with Lubuntu before
No doubt, indeed. Just pointing out 400 is not unreasonable for xfce.
Agreed. Additionally, Lubutnu felt a lot more responsive than Linux Lite (XFCE Ubuntu based distro)
I've run cinnamon on some pretty anemic systems and it was quite snappy. But I'd also been able to upgrade the memory so if it's not upgradabe that may not be as good
I'd recommend Linux Mint with the XFCE desktop over Xubuntu, because they're mostly the same thing but Mint doesn't use Snap packages by default while Ubuntu does and Mint is better suited for desktop usage due to their various nice little config tools.