I have a friends previously xp machine, that is about 10 years old. It only boots through CD but I've made two different CD-R's with Lubuntu and it won't take. I do get mini-iso to load, and have installed Lubuntu, but is there a more efficient desktop than Lubuntu-desktop?
The computer has 256mb RAM, and when I had Lubuntu-Desktop installed half of it was used up by the desktop. The machine loads Chrome well enough and plays youtube videos barely, but getting movies to play through xbmc/vlc is almost impossible (even logging out and logging in directly to xbmc).
So is there any other desktop I can install other than sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop that would allow the computer to browse/watch movies.
The lightest desktop you can install from mini.iso or from a full iso is Lubuntu (LXDE).
But if you have installed an Ubuntu desktop (or Lubuntu desktop etc.) you can switch to IceWM, JWM, i3 or other very light window managers.
I would recommend IceWM as a good alternative because there where a debian menu preinstalled and it is very easy to install.
Here is a memory usage overview:
Soure: A Memory Comparison of Light Linux Desktops on l3net
To install IceWM run this:
sudo apt-get install icewm
More info https://help.ubuntu.com/community/IceWM
LXDE vs IceWM
To install JWM run this:
sudo apt-get install jwm
To customize the JWM menu you have to create this file $HOME/.jwmrc
A good jwmrc example file: Link
To install i3 run this in a terminal:
# login to the root shell for one 'echo' command
sudo -i
echo "deb http://debian.sur5r.net/i3/ $(lsb_release -c -s) universe" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
logout
# we're back our user account
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get --allow-unauthenticated install sur5r-keyring
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install i3
Source: brentwalther.net
i3 user guide -> http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html
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