Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop?

[Peter Ehlert <pb21a@sdi-baja.com>]

On 3/4/22 02:58, Christian Britz wrote:
> On 2022-03-04 11:47 UTC+0100, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> > One of my memory slot has died, so I am running a Thinkpad with 2GB ram
> > only. I have been told that, even if I put a 4GB ram module in, it won't
> > be as fast as 2x2GB ram (true? Stop me here if I am wrong). Never mind
> > put an 8GB stick; it might not even work.
> As far as I know this depends on the design / architecture of the
> chipset / motherboard.
>
> > At the moment I'm running a heavily hacked LMDE4 (Buster) with a lot of
> > Mint customisations off. What flavour of Debian should I replace my
> > LMDE4 with? And does it make any difference? My memory hogs are Chromium
> > and Firefox, the rest is ok.
> You should run Debian stable for daily use. If performance is your main
> concern, try one of the light desktop environments (Xfce, LXDE,
> LXQT...).

I keep hearing about Xfce being "light"

it defiantly is, but I decided to compare it to my personal favorite Mate

Two fresh netinstalls, same machine, same SSD drive. Xfce and Mate desktops

xfce:  774 MIB ram used .. 4 GIB / space used
mate:  719 MIB ram used .. 6 GIB / space used
mate*:  722 MIB ram used .. 6 GIB / space used

*Mate with the mate-desktop-environment-extras metapackage

I did not stress test either but the apparent speed was the same

> I like the simplicity of LXQT, although I have recently fallen
> in love with Cutefish (not yet in Debian).
>
> Regards,
> Christian