On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 at 17:52, hms--- via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > I have stayed with Lubuntu > 18.04 as the later versions use SNAP and no longer support old hardware.
That is a fair point. 20.x and onwards no longer support x86-32 hardware. Debian still does, although support is being removed from the next release, Debian 13 "Trixie", expected in 2025. Fewer and fewer distros still support x86-32. > Newer versions are very slow. I have removed snap and tried all the tips > to improve speed and responsiveness without success. I do not find it _that_ much worse myself and I run 10-12YO hardware as daily drivers here. I am considering migrating to MX Linux, though, which is faster, lighter, and does not include Snap, systemd, and several other bits of modern bloat. It defaults to the Xfce desktop, which is nearly as light as LXDE but much more customisable. LXDE is also at end of life, incidentally, and Lubuntu now uses its replacement, LXQt, which I personally like less. The lightest-weight mainstream desktop distro I know is the Raspberry Pi Desktop, the X86 edition of the miniature-computer OS. It runs usefully in 1GB of RAM and quite well in 2GB and it still supports x86-32... for now. It's based on Debian, it uses a mere 200MB of RAM at idle, it's based on LXDE, and it's free, of course. https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/raspberry-pi-desktop/ It does not have Snap or Flatpak but it does use systemd. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
