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thank you for your support and work around the Linux Mint project, I really appreciate it.
I'm new to Linux Mint therefore I'm now moving my first steps towards the knowledge regarding the different versions of Mint.
I've got an old laptop Samsung NP-RV515 with 4 RAM DDR2 and the CPU "AMD E-Series E-450" (1.65 GHz dual core e 2 threads).
I'm using a SSD.
Would you please confirm my idea that it would be more appropriate to install the "Mate" edition (instead of the "Cinnamon" one) on this specific laptop hardware configuration? Or maybe even the XFCE editon?
MATE is a little lighter weight than Cinnamon, but, if you have 4GB RAM, I doubt it would be a significant difference.
But that's just me.
You might try booting to Live CD/USBs of each and seeing for yourself. (Note a Live CD/USB version will inherently be a bit slower than an installed version.)
Everthing works and I dualboot with MX 23.1 Fluxbox edition. Memory used being shown is with Firefox-ESR closed. With it open. I run with about 1gig being used.
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