Best lightweight distro?

[TheGermanEngie]

So I thought Lubuntu was the low spec king of operating systems (excluding puppy linux) until I looked at the task manager of Raspbian. God damn, 100MB RAM useage on idle?! I could have multiple tabs open in Chromium and be well under the 1GB RAM limit.

 

Which is the better supported/optimized operating system for an x86 computer, Lubuntu or Raspbian? 

[Ashleyyyy]

Raspbian only works on the raspberry pi, which has an ARM cpu. so no luck there. 

 

i'd say Lubuntu definitely.

[Radium_Angel]

8 minutes ago, TheGermanEngie said:

So I thought Lubuntu was the low spec king of operating systems (excluding puppy linux) until I looked at the task manager of Raspbian. God damn, 100MB RAM useage on idle?! I could have multiple tabs open in Chromium and be well under the 1GB RAM limit.

 

Which is the better supported/optimized operating system for an x86 computer, Lubuntu or Raspbian? 

Coyote Linux. Fits on a floppy.

 

[KarathKasun]

CrunchBang if you don't want to make your own stripped down install from Debian or Arch.

 

Web pages eat RAM for breakfast unless you strip out all scripts/CSS/HTML 5.

[tikker]

Maybe Arch if you're experienced enough/up for the challenge. Also don't confuse what linux calls used with actual RAM usage (https://www.linuxatemyram.com/ explains it nicely).

[TheMountain28]

30 minutes ago, tikker said:

Maybe Arch if you're experienced enough/up for the challenge. Also don't confuse what linux calls used with actual RAM usage (https://www.linuxatemyram.com/ explains it nicely).

Yes Arch Linux is a very good challenge, that very hard to install. A user friendly distro very light is LXLE.

[TheGermanEngie]

1 hour ago, firelighter487 said:

Raspbian only works on the raspberry pi, which has an ARM cpu. so no luck there. 

 

i'd say Lubuntu definitely.

No, you can install it on an X86 CPU. I think it was just originally designed around the ARM architecture, but it can still be run. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-run-raspberry-pis-raspbian-os-on-a-pc/

[Terryv]

16 hours ago, TheGermanEngie said:

No, you can install it on an X86 CPU. I think it was just originally designed around the ARM architecture, but it can still be run. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-run-raspberry-pis-raspbian-os-on-a-pc/

It's actually not a port of raspian, it's a striped down version of Debian with the pixel desktop. 32bit only and built for x86 architecture from the ground up

[Epictek300]

I'd recommend Void Linux if don't mind a bit of a challange (assuming you are a beginner). It is easier to install than Arch as it has a install script. Void also uses runit instead of SystemD making the Distro a lot more minimal and slightly faster. The ISO is only 324 MB compared to arch which is 571 MB.