Andy Young, an ex-Microsoft senior software engineer, posted a message on X/Twitter bemoaning that even with his $1,600 Core i9 CPU and 128 GB of RAM, Windows...
if you really want to hit minimalist in terms of linux environments, WMs are the way to go. They strip all the fluff from a DE and only give you the bare essentials. Everything else is something you bring, which honestly, not as big of a problem as you would think.
What are the lightweight Linux distributions?
There are multiple tiers of lightweight.
“Middleweight”: Something like Kubuntu, Xubuntu, or anything with KDE or XFCE, or MATE
More lightweight: Lubuntu, anything with LXQt
Super lightweight: AntiX, something with Trinity Desktop Environment or just a window manager instead of a full desktop environment
Most lightweight: Just a command line with no GUI (barebones Arch maybe?)
Compared to windows 11 all of them are
if you really want to hit minimalist in terms of linux environments, WMs are the way to go. They strip all the fluff from a DE and only give you the bare essentials. Everything else is something you bring, which honestly, not as big of a problem as you would think.