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I have been thinking about changing my laptop over to a more lightweight distro recently. I am currently running Linux Mint mainly because the gf is comfortable with it. So does anyone have any other recommendations?
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You might consider Linux Mint XFCE. I second the suggestion for Arch Linux. It's almost as lightweight as you can get outside of LFS. The advantage is that you can add exactly what you want and nothing else. The best part is that you will have great control and great knowledge of your system. |
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I would highly recommend Xubuntu because it's lightweight, works great, simpler desktop environment with XFCE (versus Ubuntu's gnome and Kubuntu's KDE). As was suggested above, you could use Arch (or just plain old Gentoo), but I think going with Xubuntu would provide more of an out-of-the-box experience. |
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