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A few years ago, LXLE was my distro of choice for older hardware.

I haven't used it in a while, and now I'm trying to revive an HP Stream (AMD/4GB RAM/32GB SSD).

Anything else I might want to try first, or is LXLE still considered good for lightweight/feature rich?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I appreciate your response. it's good to know I'm safe running what I know. And cerement gave me some good info so I can learn more about different distros. :)