Re: fastest linux distro

[Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>]

On Thu, 29 May 2014 19:32:01 +0200
"Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 29 May 2014 19:04:13 +0200, Steve Litt
> <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> > Tony, do you know of any documentation or other evidence of how
> > Openbox, Xfce, LXDE, IceWM, and fvwm2 stack up against each other as
> > far as "lightness"?
> 
> What's your definition of lightness?
> 
> WM/DE Memory (MB):
> https://l3net.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/cmp-all4.png

Thanks Ralf, 

This is exactly the type of information I was looking for. The guy
actually did tests to determine how much RAM they used. The actual
article, for anyone wanting to read it, is here:

http://l3net.wordpress.com/2014/02/15/a-memory-comparison-of-light-linux-desktops-part-3/#more-2638

The article confirmed my suspicion that Unity is not only confusing,
but it's a bloated pig. I was surprised that OpenBox and WindowMaker
(which I've never been able to operate) use less memory than fvwm.

One more thing I've discovered: Whatever window manager you're using,
if you can assign keyboard shortcuts to application menu, running app
list (by workspace), navigate workspaces, close window, and arbitrary
executables, then, after a little practice, in most cases it becomes
easy to get along without panels and start-menu buttons.

Also, in interfaces requiring you to click on blank desktop to get app
menu and app list, be sure there's a way to leave a small portion of
the desktop blank at all times. Openbox's margins do this for you.

Thanks for the objective data on WMs.

Thanks,

SteveT

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