I missed it the first time, so make sure you select the LXSession-Logout manager or you won't be able to logout or shutdown from the menu. Mark for installation all packages except those that are dbg. To install LXDE, go to the Synaptic Package Manager, in Preferences, check "Consider recommended packages as dependencies" My results of memory usage on an old Toshiba Satellite with 2.2GHZ AMD CPU, 2GB RAM, and a 160GB HDD was: Additionally, the XFCE version comes with the Whisker Menu, so the look and feel is so much like Cinnamon you will barely notice the difference. Again, you can start with the XFCE version. If you only have 512MB Cinnamon will run very slowly until you replace the DE because it will have to rely on the HDD swap file to run. If space is a an issue then start with the XFCE version. I prefer the tools that come with Cinnamon and you will have access to them across any DE you install without effecting the base memory usage.
I suggest 1GB RAM and 10GB HDD available.Ĭinnamon comes with their largest selection of software packages. The minimum specs say 512MB RAM and 5GB HDD available. Personally, I prefer starting with Cinnamon. Probably the rolling Debian distro as well, but I have not tested it yet.
The LXDE DE can be added to any 18.2 Linux Mint Ubuntu based distro. If you have a very old machine the LXDE DE can make a real difference in the speed and responsiveness. Since the admins moved it to the Tutorials section I've edited it for clarity. I originally added this to a very old thread just in case someone found it doing a search for LXDE desktop on Linux mint.
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