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I have noticed this Linux Lite in the top zone of DistroWatch hits. The Lite caught my attention so was gobsmacked when DistroWatch review stated 1,621 MB of RAM upon booting up….!
So I’m sitting here looking at the Feather logo wondering if I have lost the plot…?
My Zorin 16.2 GNOME uses half this..! Whereas AntiX-22 Full LXDE with over 150 apps and 1706 packages installed uses just 10%
There are at least 93 distros on DistroWatch that support the Xfce desktop environment - are they all as bad as this or is Ubuntu LTS the culprit?
Thanks for confirming it's very Heavy
Still mystified as to why they named it Lite?
Still mystified as to why it's so high in the DistroWatch ranking unless Bots?
xfce is a lightweight desktop but not the lightest. antix is built to run on really old computers and installs many lighter weight applications versus those installed in Ubuntu and lite. I do agree that Ubuntu is bloated.
The ranking is simply the number of times a distribution page on DistroWatch was accessed each day.
Yes - we all know this - some say bots skew the results - however I take it to show a certain level of interest. Others may differ?
That linux-ate-my-RAM page is quoted on every Linux-FOSS forum but fails to impress me as they do not seem to understand the slow zone prior to swap..
xfce is a lightweight desktop - Er; where did you get that from? Their web page?
Xfce has got heavier and heavier, year on year.
Nearly as heavy as KDE Mate last time I looked.
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One man's bloat is another man's features... - Yo Bro..
Like the Slow Poke feature
Like the inefficiency feature
Like... Like....
Who wants to waste money on unused RAM..?
Who wants to waste electric and paying for it..?
Consider the Planet
ChaletOS ...very fast and light on resourses my comp 2GB ram - iso 1.4gb
XentaOS ... even faster on my machine
Welcome Back
Wish I could get LXLE to install one day soon...
ChaletOS was last updated in 2016 AFAIK
XentaOS is cool if you live in Indonesia...?
Xenta OS is a Linux Distro Local Indonesian containing software which can be used for desktop, laptop and notebook. Equipped with various knick-knacks Indonesia, this distribution is suitable for computer users in Indonesia.
There is nothing "lite" about it in my experience. It does a good job of mimicking the traditional UI, but it is bloated and the performance is poor. I've run full-blown KDE Plasma on the same hardware as Lite and gotten vastly better performance.
It's just a name. I wouldn't use it on anything except recent hardware, and even then, Mint Cinnamon is better for the use case where you want a Windows-style UI.
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