I have an older system (old Netbook) I am considering the desktop environment for. It's a single-core AMD Athlon chip and has 2 GB of RAM (the max).
I know that Xfce and LXDE are lighter and will work on this system. Those are my fallback if I cannot get a preferred desktop environment to a comfortable level.
Gnome is a gno-go because of something going on with the video and artifacts on the screen. It improved slightly when I lowered the resolution (down from 1366x768).
KDE works alright, and I like the Netbook (Search) desktop style. As expected, it is heavier than Xfce.
So my question is, what are some of the things that can be turned off, or tweaked to lighten the load on the system?
One thing I have thought of is turning off Desktop effects. I read somewhere else, to turn off Akondi and indexing.
Anything else?
I know that Xfce and LXDE are lighter and will work on this system. Those are my fallback if I cannot get a preferred desktop environment to a comfortable level.
Gnome is a gno-go because of something going on with the video and artifacts on the screen. It improved slightly when I lowered the resolution (down from 1366x768).
KDE works alright, and I like the Netbook (Search) desktop style. As expected, it is heavier than Xfce.
So my question is, what are some of the things that can be turned off, or tweaked to lighten the load on the system?
One thing I have thought of is turning off Desktop effects. I read somewhere else, to turn off Akondi and indexing.
Anything else?