Re: [Trisquel-users] [POLL] What is your preferred desktop environment of Trisquel 8 ?

[dguthrie]

This is to an extent true, but computers designed for Windows Vista (some of  
them have in excess of 1-2GoB of RAM) generally can handle GNOME Shell if  
they are Intel computers.
It's true that computers designed for XP and earlier are generally better for  
something more lightweight though. This should be Xfce in my opinion. It is  
much more accomplished and has many more features than GNOME Panel. It is  
also has more active development, and the releases add tangible new features.  
LXDE is lightweight, but I do not know of any older computer that cannot  
handle Xfce (mostly because I use window managers with such computers, I have  
not tried Xfce on really old computers circa 1999).