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For you RAM is normally not an issue. Plenty of machines that would need Xubuntu / Lubuntu are having RAM issues. 100MB is a whole lot! Honestly, if you have 3

For you RAM is normally not an issue. Plenty of machines that would need Xubuntu / Lubuntu are having RAM issues. 100MB is a whole lot! Honestly, if you have 32GB of RAM, I don't even see what would you save by running without a desktop environment: get an extra 1.5% extra RAM? I've restored my old machine last year and I've been surprised how much 'value for RAM' you could get years ago. I could run Windows 95 on the little machine with Office 97 and do something with it. While a modern Linux doesn't even have a kernel for 16MB of RAM, not to mention an office suite.

surfsvammel 7y ago
I run outside the DE because I have had more problems with CUDA stuff hanging the computer during long running jobs when running inside of a DE. Nothing worse than waking up to check results of some long job in the morning only to realised it crashed 15 minutes in. You are right, of course, about it not being a problem for those two machines. I didn’t realise Xububtu and Lububtu profiled themselves as low requirements OS’.