[geeks] UNIX-like OS for a laptop

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:48:29 -0400
Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:

> Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > The smallest usable desktop is XFCE.
> > 
> > However, if you can save a ton of memory and cycles by not running one at
> > all, and just using one of the leaner window managers.
> 
> Even on fast machines, I still usually only use ctwm.  I don't really 
> see any point spending all those cycles to run KDE or Gnome.

It depends on how you use your machine.

If you use desktop applications, they work better on a DE.

Some won't work at all without one.

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