I'm switching from Ubuntu to anything lite. What do you recommend?

[SteffenMoss]

Hi all,

I'm sitting here using Ubuntu 9.04 right now, and everything is working fine. I've used Ubuntu since november 2008 now, after i managed to delete my XP-partition. And boy, am i glad that happened.

So, i'm getting tired of Ubuntu and the "malware" and stuff on it. So i'm looking for a lite, new distro. I don't think i'm quite ready for Arch yet, but does it exist a lite distro without all this programs i'm not using. Such as OpenOffice and stuff. As long as the wifi, graphics and sound-drivers are in place, i don't care which distro you guys recommends.

[minthaka]

Hi, and welcome to the LinuxForums!
What do you actually want from your distro?

[SteffenMoss]

Thanks

What i want/wish is a very lite distro, that doesn't use that much RAM and CPU like Ubuntu. It must be fast, and have alot of modding potential. I'm not a noob, but i'm still a amature, so any repository like Synaptics in Ubuntu would be nice, since i haven't learned that much commands yet, exept the basic stuff. The installation must be easy. That excludes Arch i guess. But i guess Arch + easy installation and configurations would be nice.

And btw, i'm not a fan of KDE, so anything else would be nice. KDE = Too much bling bling for me :P

[minthaka]

Give a try to the new PuppyLinux. It's simple, fast as lightning. It doesn't have great variety of programs, but it's amazing. If you like you can install it, or drop it.

[SteffenMoss]

Allready tried it

And i didn't like it, haha

[minthaka]

What about VectorLinux

[SteffenMoss]

Hmm.. That looks interesting. What is it based on?

[rokytnji]

Vector is based on Slackware. If you want Synaptic with a lite Desktop. I use Linux Mint 6 RC1 or Antix 8 for that and they both come with Synaptic. Ubuntu also come with Fluxbox and Xfce in your current install inside synaptic. Do a search for either that you wish to use and install through there. I also use LXDE and Enlightenment in Ubuntu also.

[SteffenMoss]

Hey, and thanks for the reply. So the thing now is that it tried to install CrunchBang from my USB-stick (i'm using Aspire One A150 without CD-ROM) without any luck. I think my USB-stick is nearly broken.

So, after thinking a bit, i went in Synaptic and started to remove unwanted stuff like OpenOffice, some languages etc. and ended up deleting over 1GB of systemfiles and stuff.

So, i'm feeling a little bit lighter now, so i'm looking for a good (and light) window manager. I don't like KDE, so no thanks. I like Gnome, but i'm tired of it, i've tried Openbox, and liked it a littlebit, and i've tried Pekwm, Fluxbox and LG3D.

Is there some other popular window managers out there?

Thanks in advance

[rokytnji]

Like I said LXDE is a option. You just have to add to your software sources list

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/lxde/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/lxde/ubuntu hardy main