group test: Lightweight distros
If this were a group test of distros specifically for older hardware, then Slacko Puppy would have been top dog followed by TinyCore, which is lighter but has a more involved setup process. However, the real test of a lightweight distro is on a machine that’s not necessarily old, just not adequately stacked. This is why we rated the distros based on their performance on the dual-core netbook, and the table below reflects numbers as measured on this computer.
WattOS Mate edition was quick off the blocks, but lacked any useful apps. The LXDE edition of the distro does include VLC but loses snappiness. We’ve rated it lower than the slow-starting LinuxLite because at least the latter welcomes the user to a much richer desktop experience. In fact, LinuxLite would be a good distro to introduce new users to Linux.
This group test would have easily been won by LinuxLite. It’s one of the fastest distros and loads to a very usable desktop straight out of the box. But it loses out to SparkyLinux despite being faster because of its memory usage, which is almost twice that of the winner. However, if you have the RAM to spare, then LXLE is our favourite LXDE-based distro around and it’s even faster than SparkLinux’s LXDE flavour.
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