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It's sad that the 'light-weight-ness' of a distro seems to superficially only be measured on how much RAM it uses, instead of CPU load or disk I/O which have a
by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
It's sad that the 'light-weight-ness' of a distro seems to superficially only be measured on how much RAM it uses, instead of CPU load or disk I/O which have a much bigger impact on how snappy an OS feels than RAM, as most linux distros don't use that much RAM anyway to make a difference once you launch a memory hog like Chrome, but they can hit the CPU and disk hard enough to make a dent on performance, especially on older systems with HDD and slow CPUs.
- pjmlp 3y agoYes, this is greatly increased on older CPUs that aren't that rich in cores, thus the current heavy multi-processing takes an heavy toll on them, basically why threads used to be favoured back when they were modern.
- readingnews 3y agoI agree... so if you use the GUI, the window manager has a lot to do with it (hence the other posters comment about wayland). The author also notes the size of the download/distro, which is not equal to install size. If you wanted to go really crazy, perhaps install gentoo and only put in the packages you absolutely need? I still find this site terribly useful, and parse through distros probably once a month. https://distrowatch.com/ https://distrowatch.com/