netbook v. laptop / remix

[Amedee Van Gasse (ub)]

On Wed, November 25, 2009 10:21, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Amedee Van Gasse (ub) wrote:
>> You should try Crunchbang. This is an Ubuntu flavor with Openbox
>> desktop.
>> Very lightweight, very useful for a netbook. Requires a little bit of
>> getting used to if you only know KDE or Gnome.
>
>     I really don't think a machine with 1Gb of RAM needs "lightweight"
> when it
> is more powerful than my last laptop that ran KDE 4.x.  Dell Latitude CPx
> P3
> 667Mhz w/256Mb of RAM.  Maybe on Droid?

There are two ways to look at "lightweight":
1. low on system resources
2. without all the bloat of applications that you will never use anyway

KDE and Gnome *can* be lightweight according to the second interpretation.
But (almost) nobody bothers to clean up the toys. Openbox otoh doesn't
install unnecessary toys by default, so any bloat is self inflicted.

Anyway perhaps the discussion should move to sounder?