Smallest GUI distro (for a low-RAM Chromebook)? (programming.dev)

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PeppermintOS? I'm trying to prepare an ancient Chromebook C202S for Linux and have had some ideas from antiX to MXLinux and Loc-OS, but it seems that PeppermintOS may be among the best choices.

The tech level of this Chromebook's end user is unlikely to work well with Arch + BSPWM, which was recommended to me by someone else.

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[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

AntiX Linux has been the most efficient distro on my netbook. You gotta be okay without systemd though. For the most part I didn't need it but some things are highly dependent on systemd to work.

WattOS was good too but AFAIK it's not actually open source so I couldn't trust it.

[-] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

some things are highly dependent on systemd to work.

I'm fearfully curious about what these are...

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I think Incus was one I had trouble with. It did run without systemd but part of the installation I had to do manually.

[-] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Oh, dang, yeah, this machine would definitely not be running that, haha; never heard of it and just now looked it up.

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