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I need help picking a lightweight touch friendly DE (pawb.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My cousin gave an old acer switch that she wasn´t using, its extremely underpowered with 2gb of ram, an old atom and 32 gigs of storage. I tried ubuntu with gnome because thats what i use on my main laptop and while it has amazing touchscreen support it barely runs. I then decided to try lxqt and it runs great but the touch support is really bad. Does anyone know a DE with a good balance between performance and usability? xfce doesnt really seem to have good touch support either and tbh i really dislike it.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You can give KDE/Plasma a try

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can definitely vouch for Plasma, the Steam Deck comes with it and it's great

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is plasma more lightweight than gnome?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh yes, by several metric tons. I've used both, calling GNOME lightweight would be hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love plasma and it's my go-to desktop, but it's also one of the heavier ones and I'm not sure it'll play nice with just 2GB of RAM. Maybe XFCE or something even lighter like LXDE/LXQT.

Trinity might be a little easier for touch as well, though I haven't personally used that one in years

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The idea that plasma is very heavy weight is an outdated one. You should give it a try.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/359051/what-are-the-system-requirements-for-kde#:~:text=By%20connecting%20the%20pieces%20of,Integrated%20graphics%20(GMA%203150)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

You should try reading again, including the part where I indicated "it's my go-to desktop" (as in, what I use in the majority of machines).

I also have an old acer with 2GB of RAM. While it can run KDE, a standard install with such will not run very well. Been there, tried that.

(Also, if you read the article even the dude mentioned apparently moved to XFCE)