My favorite lightweight DEs are:
1) LxQT: really lightweight (system requirement is 128MB RAM) but some
features are missing.
2) Mate or Xfce: Require 512MB of RAM but have all the features.
As for distros, I suggest arch or debian-unstable. They don't install
anything extra (i.e. If you didn't in
My 2c for this discussion is ,
*STAY AWAY FROM HYBRID DISPLAYS !!! (aka Optimus or any other
implementation) *
The current state is disaster, with some minimal support.
Only recently Fedora (25) took it as priority to support hybrid graphics
cards out of the box (in Gnome3 only).
and even then on
I bought a DELL inspiron 7559 with the hybrid graphic card. It is the worst
laptop I ever had, All distros have issues with it. I wanted the laptop to
use the GPU and therefore preferred to use the nvidia driver.
Battery life sucks. keyboard seems to be fragile. Stay away from Dell at
least from th
Thanks Dan for your perspective. I'm actually going to teaching in Abu
Dhabi next September so I'm really glad you brought that up.
In general, I've been hearing good things about the current model (4th
generation) which I believe came out earlier this year, so I assume
your model is something pri
The point here is that they sacrifice a lot of the think* series sturdiness
for the lack of weight and thickness. And you can't upgrade the thing, it's
all a single block you can't take apart. There's also a problem with later
kernels getting mces and panics on overheating because of a bug in the w
I have an Asus machine, it is now ~4.5 years old, I gave it an SSD
upgrade and replaced the battery last summer (1.5 years ago) and the
only thing really bothering me a bit these days is that I have only
4GB of RAM so with mild worry I ended up enabling swap on my SSD.
By the time the SSD goes I'l