Optimizing low-tech netbook resources with Sabayon DE

[izh34]

Questions from newbie here.

I've been thinking what's the best DE suits for a low-tech netbook? I have a friend who would like to know which DE from Sabayon suits for her needs for browsing online and doing some office works like typing in words, powerpoint and excel?

When I mean low-tech netbook, it means its RAM is 1GB and running on intel atom processor.

I've been using XFCE on my netbook and see no difference in performance. Maybe because I don't know whether it is fast, or it is slow. I don't know the right key performance a netbook should have like booting in 10 second or any kind like it. As far as I'm concern now, my netbook takes more than a minute to fully boot. When I open more than 5 tabs using chromium, my netbook will be a bit slower. It will be even slower if I open Rigo added with libreOffice word. Sometime stuck for 2 or 3 seconds than back to normal.

I still figuring out whether LXDE or XFCE is the best. And how to measure saying it has optimize my netbook resources? And how to tweak it according to my need?

So any suggestions guys? and can you tell me why?

[wolfden]

LXDE would probably be your best bet.

[Ryuno-Ki]

I still figuring out whether LXDE or XFCE is the best. And how to measure saying it has optimize my netbook resources? And how to tweak it according to my need?

So any suggestions guys? and can you tell me why?

LXDE is a bit smaller and faster than XFCE. Last but not least because of the programs used. The main difference (see here) is, that Xfce focus on features, whereas LXDE focus on lightness.

But if you don't shrink from editing config files, you may also want to have a look on window managers like Fluxbox, Openbox, I3, awesome and many, many more … Note that there isn't always a GUI to configure them …

However, there are lots of articles out there touching this topic.