I have a Lenovo Thinkpad x140e (AMD A4-5000M 1.5GHz 2MB L2 Cache Quad-core, 4GB DDR3) that I am currently dual booting with Mint and Windows 8. Mint feels sluggish compared to Win8.
I am not doing much with it, I need to run the Spotify app, and a webpage for hosting game tournaments. I am using the HDMI out on the laptop to a 4x4 Matrix.
I am looking for suggestions for a lightweight as possible distro.
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Try out the Linux Mint XFCE edition. The default desktop environment in Mint is Cinnamon, which is a Fork of GNOME and uses a lot of JavaScript code and thus has high resource consumption. XFCE is very fast and lightweight, I think you will have a better experience with it.
It looks like i am already running Xfce.
Then perhaps try out PeppermintOS
This certainly isn’t as lightweight as possible, but it’s more usable day to day: Lubuntu.
It takes ~400MB on idle and feels super quick and responsive on my 2009 Core 2 Duo laptop. The heaviest thing in your install is gonna be Spotify.
Similarly, assuming OP is using Linux Mint Cinnamon Edition, they could try out the much lighter Xfce Edition.
Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment. It doesn’t support as many features as Cinnamon or MATE, but it’s extremely stable and very light on resource usage.
I think i am using Cinnamon. Is there a way to switch to Xfce without a reinstall?
You should be able to simply install the ‘xfce4’ package via apt or software manager. It’ll install the session, desktop, panel and all other widgets.
You can then log out, use a button in the top-right corner of the screen to change your session to xfce, and sign in again.
Looks like i am already running Xfce.
