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Distro for a Lenovo Thinkpad x140e? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 9 months ago by nokturne213@sopuli.xyz to c/linux4noobs@programming.dev

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I have a Lenovo Thinkpad x140e (AMD A4-5000M 1.5GHz 2MB L2 Cache Quad-core, 4GB DDR3) that I am currently dual booting with Mint and Windows 8. Mint feels sluggish compared to Win8.

I am not doing much with it, I need to run the Spotify app, and a webpage for hosting game tournaments. I am using the HDMI out on the laptop to a 4x4 Matrix.

I am looking for suggestions for a lightweight as possible distro.

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[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This certainly isn't as lightweight as possible, but it's more usable day to day: Lubuntu.

It takes ~400MB on idle and feels super quick and responsive on my 2009 Core 2 Duo laptop. The heaviest thing in your install is gonna be Spotify.

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.one 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Similarly, assuming OP is using Linux Mint Cinnamon Edition, they could try out the much lighter Xfce Edition.

Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment. It doesn’t support as many features as Cinnamon or MATE, but it’s extremely stable and very light on resource usage.

https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php

[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago

I have used Linux Lite which also uses XFCE, but I found the system to feel far less responsive than Lubuntu on my old laptop. Ymmv though.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think i am using Cinnamon. Is there a way to switch to Xfce without a reinstall?

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.one 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You should be able to simply install the 'xfce4' package via apt or software manager. It'll install the session, desktop, panel and all other widgets.

You can then log out, use a button in the top-right corner of the screen to change your session to xfce, and sign in again.

https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comments/np33e1/want_to_switch_from_mint_cinnamon_to_mint_xfce/h02yw8t/

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 months ago

Looks like i am already running Xfce.