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recommendations for lightweight window managers for an old netbook
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Could try openbox, its old but works. Highly customisable but still lightweight.
+1 for openbox. It’s fast and lightweight.
A bit late to the party, but especially for an older machine I'll take Openbox any day. I still have some low range 2015 laptops running just fine where something like KDE would choke them up completely.
Since Wayland is lighter than X.org, LabWC could be another option. It is not fully compatable with Openbox, but most Openbox configs work on LabWC
I liked messing around with openbox but I'm very aesthetically challenged so I never managed to make it look good. Any tips?
Protip: It's impossible to make it look good.
Find someone else's config that you like online.