Installing on an old Eee PC 900

[Tom H]

On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28 October 2012 18:03, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:


>> I have Lubuntu on it right now. It sucks badly in many aspects, I
>> don't really have time to go through all that right now, sorry.
>
> Well, if you don't have time to tell us what's wrong with it, then we
> don't have time to help you to fix the problems or guide you toward
> something better. :¬P

I understood the complaint that LXDE sucks not the OP's specific
install of Lubuntu...


> But to answer your question: no, you can't have Debian with GNOME 3
> without GNOME Shell, and GNOME 3 is a lot bigger, slower and heavier
> than LXDE and /anything/ with GNOME 3 on it, in any form, will take
> more RAM, be slower to start and less responsive than Lubuntu is.
> Ditto XFCE, ditto Maté.
>
> There is not much out there that is lighter and faster than Lubuntu.
> Things that are:
> * PuppyLinux (runs as root all the time, so massively insecure & dangerous)
> * DamnSmallLinux (obsolete as the creator & the maintainer fell out
> and the former has been unable to keep it updated on his own)
> * Crunchbang (worth a look, but does not have a "desktop" as such)
> * Maybe possibly VectorLinux if you use IceWM or something

Or install an X-less system and add X and Fluxbox (or another window manager).