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http://www.linuxquestions.org – Hi.I know this is a widely discussed topic but I would like to "hear" your opinions according to my scenario and needs. Note: this is not intended to be a flame war :) I have an old laptop (P3 with 512MB and 40GB hard drive) and I decided not to install gnome on that box. After researched a little bit and looking for options, I would like to have either xfce or lxde. I've been a gnome user for years, but I'm planning to move to one of these two desktop environments. I've tried both of them in the laptop mentioned above and Xfce seemed heavier th (HowTos)

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Hi there.

I'm planning to install ubuntu in an old computer (512MB of RAM) and I want it to have xfce as its DE. So a question arised:

Which of the following options would be lighter for that pc: Xubuntu or Ubuntu Server + xfce ?

Any recomendations are very welcome!

PS: I want to use xfce (not gnome, kde, lxde, etc.)

Thanks!!!

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