What is the best lightweight environment?

Question

linux

There is a low power laptop with Debian on board. What DE can you advise to install? Already tried xfce and lxde.

Answer 1

Easier than xfce and lxde, probably just some bare WM.
Once I installed Arch x86_64 and over xfce. With the lamp stack running on the local PC, about 150 MB of RAM was consumed.

Answer 2

Or collect something of your own on openbox, or master tile managers.

IBM t42 Celeron 1.7 512mb ram .. linux + i3wm + vim, although the sublime drags fine. But the browser eats everything else, and asks for supplements :-(

Answer 3

I also use IceWM on powerful ones. Because it’s a very decent window manager: it almost doesn’t eat resources + it’s perfectly customizable (I completely turned off unnecessary window decoration and set all the necessary things to keyboard shortcuts).

Answer 4

i3wm or openbox, you will have to cut for yourself

Answer 5

XMonad has recently taken root well with me.