On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 09:53:06 -0800
Mike Easter  wrote:

>The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> Mike Easter wrote:
>>>
>>> Lighter weight distro/s such as Raspian and others should continue to
>>> get the most attention from ARM devices.
>>
>> It's not the distro that is lightweight: it is simply the lack of CPU
>> sucking javascript in a web browser.
>>
>
>Well, I would say that some distro/s and DEs and browsers focus more on
>being modest in their resource consumption than others.
>
>Ubuntu is 'based on' Debian, but it has its own repo/s; and Ub
>'generally' uses more resources than Debian.
>
>Historically, KDE has been considered a heavier DE, but recent versions
>have shown KDE to be /much/ more modest in resource use than Gnome,
>which doesn't seem to care a fig about how efficient it isn't.  A
>typical Gnome distro might use nearly twice as much resources live to
>the desktop than a typical KDE.
>
>When someone assembles a distro such as Raspbian, they make choices in
>which base, Debian, which DE/WM LXDE/OpenBox and which mail/news agent
>Claws; whereas other distro dev/s make much heavier choices.  The choice
>of Chromium for the default Raspbian browser was a choice leaning toward
>functionality rather than low resources.
>
>> Or X-windows.
>>
>> Ditch a GUI and you can run on a z80.
>
>Well, personally I'm more of a GUI person.  My computing days started w/
>an Atari TOS GUI, so I didn't 'grow up' using a command line.  Nowadays
>I DO use command lines when they do the job I want done more efficiently.
>
>The Raspbian choices for my RPi3B do just fine, resource-wise.  If I
>were a 4G RPi4, the resource management would be different; but I would
>likely use an XFCE Debian.  I'm not sure about the Claws vs Thunderbird
>issue; tho' Tb is VERY bloated, it has some features for news I like
>that Claws doesn't.
>
>

I start off with rasbian-lite then build up exactly what I want for the
particular application - usually involves openbox and rox-filer

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