What to install on a low-powered netbook?

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Andrey Andryushchenko2015-05-15 11:50:46

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Andrey Andryushchenko, 2015-05-15 11:50:46

I have a DNS 123962 netbook with the following specifications: 2 GB RAM, 1.66 GHz Intel Atom processor. Installed XP, which to put it mildly podlagivaet. I need it for work. It uses IntelliJ IDEA, a simple graphics editor and a browser.
What can be installed on it as the main OS for working with the above programs so that it lags as little as possible?
I look towards Debian.

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Pavel Shvedov, 2015-05-15
@delphikettle

Look towards Debian - install, try, just refrain from heavy DE ala Gnome 3 or Unity. Try some OpenBox, LXDE or something like that, the swap partition is masthead

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Matvey Kukuy, 2015-05-15
@Matvey-Kuk

You can stubbornly use the console stack for development: vim etc

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D', 2015-05-15
@Denormalization

ArchLinux + i3/openbox/xfce. Everything will fly.

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Viktor, 2015-05-15
@nehrung

Everyone advises one or another Linux option, but based on the fact that

XP installed

, apparently, Windows is also acceptable?
My experience with a netbook on the E350 processor showed the following: initially there was W7 - I didn’t like it, I installed XP - it’s already better, but it became very good after installing W8 there and upgrading to 8.1.

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Anton, 2015-05-15
@Gokudera

Try
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/Min...
sudo apt-get install xorg
sudo apt-get install openbox obconf openbox-themes
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/Low ...

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Dmitry Shinkar, 2015-05-15
@DeadCowsDontMoo

If you want new sensations - install 10 Windu, and then delete and put something normal: D

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Kostya Bakay, 2015-05-15
@kostyabakay

I advise you to bring 2 GB of memory and install Windows 8.1 - it will become quite comfortable.

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Maxim Grechushnikov, 2015-05-15
@maxyc_webber

xubuntu, mint17 mate, fraya

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zelsky, 2015-05-15
@zelsky

Crunchbang IMHO

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zaqwer101, 2015-05-16
@zaqwer101

Of course gentoo

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brazuno, 2015-05-21
@brazuno

For the last couple of years I have been using an ASUS EeePC 900HA with 1GB of memory and running lubuntu 12.04. For work (including with an editor like gimp) it was quite enough. Unfortunately, due to intensive use, the device fell apart so much that the electrical tape was not able to fix it, so I had to part with the old man. And so, if a rather ascetic design does not scare, then it is quite possible to put lubuntu as a distro that is undemanding to resources.