As far as "alternative" desktops go, I've liked XFCE the best. Still, I think a memory upgrade might be worthwhile (if it's possible), because GNOME and KDE seem to do more and more these days. A Celeron 800 w/ 512mb of RAM should be more than enough to run either of their latest releases comfortably.
-DMZ On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 12:30 -0400, Nick Cummings wrote: > I really like having a nice Desktop environment where things can be done > with a minimum of hassle. While I generally feel I'm up to the task of > figuring out most software, it's not how I prefer to spend my little free > time. As a result, I've been using Gnome and KDE desktops for the last > few years and have generally been pretty happy with both. However, one of > my machines is older (Celeron 800 w/ 256 MB RAM) and both of these > desktops are a bit sluggish there, so I'd like to take a look at switching > to a lighter weight desktop. > > I realize that features take system resources. I'm willing to do with a > few less features (and I'm completely willing to get rid of most of the > eye-candy features), but I'd like to still have a fairly user friendly > desktop, perhaps "the next step down" from Gnome and KDE. What > suggestions do people have for desktop environments I should check out? > > In the past I've heard people suggest desktops built around Xfce, IceWM, > Blackbox, and Fluxbox. Are any of these good candidates? Will I really > see any significant difference in responsiveness? Given how happy I've > been with Ubuntu, I'm tempted to try Xubuntu, the Ubuntu spinoff based > around Xfce4. > > Thanks, > > Nick > >
