the specs for it is a windows 8.0 eara intel Pentium cpu 3.9 gigs of ram , and windoes takes ~50% of ram . if so what desktop/tiling window manager should i emerge

  • DigitEnglish
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    6 months ago

    should i install gentoo on my laptop

    Yes

    if so what desktop/tiling window manager should i emerge

    Whichever you like. Gentoo is all about choice. IceWM and jwm are windowsy, and very very light.

    … I’d choose to upgrade the hardware. ;) (~ if you’ve not already in the 4 years since posting that. Sorry to leave you hanging so long). ;D

  • Peter1986c@lemmy.ml
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    5 years ago

    While it is not impossible to setup Gentoo Linux on a machine like that, I do not know whether it is worth the hassle. I would just go for Linux Mint or so (would be light enough, esp. their flavour with XFCE).