>>>>> "JM" == Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> writes:
JM> This is mostly irrelevant. The resources consumed by the desktop
JM> are negligible compared to applications. As soon as you start a
JM> browser with a few tabs on non-trivial websites, 1 GiB of memory
JM> is barely enough. Regardless of the desktop environment.
FYI, Xfce + Firefox runs fine on a >10 years old computer with 256 MB
RAM for all practical needs of the user.