Lightest Weight OS for PB
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I still like Armbian. It can be slimmed down / tweaked a bit for performance. Absolute first thing is to change the window resize method.

If you are putting something together from the ground up you can go so barebones you'll never want to look at your pinebook again (I'm looking at you TWM). LXDE is pretty lightweight. XFCE used to be but it gained enough bloat to be one of the heavyweights.

FVWM and IceWM isn't too bad with the lightweights I guess.

As said, lose the desktop manager and just run xorg if you want savings.

What else... Don't even consider trying AwesomeWM. I don't know what it's deal is but it is the slowest thing ever even on my desktop PC. I tried it on a netbook recently. Instant regret. If whatever is messed up gets fixed it'd be nice to use I guess. If they updated their documentation to reflect the current file structure.


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Lightest Weight OS for PB - by machinehum - 11-21-2018, 11:12 AM
RE: Lightest Weight OS for PB - by Surehand53 - 11-21-2018, 11:57 AM
RE: Lightest Weight OS for PB - by machinehum - 11-27-2018, 03:30 PM
RE: Lightest Weight OS for PB - by e-minguez - 11-28-2018, 08:25 AM
RE: Lightest Weight OS for PB - by rpm - 12-01-2018, 11:08 AM
RE: Lightest Weight OS for PB - by dhylton - 12-07-2018, 12:30 PM
RE: Lightest Weight OS for PB - by dhylton - 12-07-2018, 04:22 PM
RE: Lightest Weight OS for PB - by rpm - 12-09-2018, 08:02 AM
RE: Lightest Weight OS for PB - by Surehand53 - 12-09-2018, 10:04 AM
RE: Lightest Weight OS for PB - by dhylton - 12-09-2018, 08:07 PM
RE: Lightest Weight OS for PB - by ImmortanJoe - 12-08-2018, 06:22 AM
RE: Lightest Weight OS for PB - by fxfuji - 02-02-2019, 06:59 AM
RE: Lightest Weight OS for PB - by notpod - 05-14-2019, 07:59 AM
RE: Lightest Weight OS for PB - by giel - 05-22-2019, 08:47 AM

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