SITUATION: Circumstance has forced me to press into duty a low-power gifted laptop I can take on the road. It’s a 2014 toshiba satellite. my dad got it at costco dirt cheap and since he and his wife are now old smartphone junkies he gave it to me…**. I bought a new ssd for it and bought 4GB memory f…

EndeavourOS with Openbox and LXQT is what I have on a Gateway 1.8 GHZ with 16 gig and its plenty for what I use it for (Videos/Music) Mind you I’m limited in video do to the Graphics (1368x720) However it has run fine with no issues with exception of the old style hdd seems to make it seem slow at t…

gotcha I thought you were misspelling ‘syncing’ my bad. no syncthing for me. just a travel laptop. as for your last replies: I love the adventure :slight_smile:

[image] drunkenvicar: I love the adventure Then why are you wasting time here? :upside_down_face: Get installing!

How about an EOS online install with no desktop or window manager and then install openbox? That is what I did since I am partial to openbox on any distro that I use and EOS is no exception. To do that, follow these instructions: Select "No desktop" during the Calamares install. After Calamares…

I’ve thought of a headless install many many times. Openbox I can handle. Anything else not so much :slight_smile: thank you

Just look at how nice an “purty” you could make it look! :laughing: [endeavourosScreenshot_2026-06-28_22-55-49]

If you are looking for lightweight options from EOS, here is an outdated article: [image] Comparing Performance of Lightweight DEs Community contributions Over the past few days, I did several test installs of Lightweight DEs on the Raspberry Pi to find what r…

I’m encouraged by all the 1.Xghz replies today, thank you all. I think we (I) get deluded that a WM is automatically going to use less resources all the way around but I think this is situational.

Something good to watch here for a bit of a comparison of how different software etc runs on different older hardware. [Lightweight Linux for Older Computers]

As for Noctalia / DMS since they were mentioned – they are easy to set up, but at least for now, for a lightweight Linux they’re a no-go. Especially DMS, since it’s based on Quickshell and it isn’t expected to be rewritten. Noctalia, when v5 is ready for mass adoption, is about to be a suitable op…

wiki.artixlinux.org/ doesn’t load for me. Is it a me issue?

A 'light' arch knockoff/fork for laptop

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If you are looking for lightweight options from EOS, here is an outdated article: