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I think you made the right choice with your hardware for a lightweight Desktop.
LXDE vs. XFCE System Resource Efficiency
CPU usage is the same at around 1 percent, but LXDE uses a paltry 219 MB RAM, whereas XFCE uses 465 MB RAM. This is a huge deal for those users with very limited RAM. Older laptops with 2 or 4 GB RAM need to make every MB of RAM count, even on the order of a few hundred MB. If you have a particularly limited system, you may want to choose LXDE.
The above info was from https://www.maketecheasier.com/lxde-vs-xfce/
So enjoy. I guess I'm lucky my laptop has 32GB or Ram and an intel i7 CPU

A pawn may: https://askubuntu.com/questions/7796...vent-its-usage but why why be the lettuce to two dudes?

Orca for Computational Chemistry
Open MPI
Anaconda
Amber Molec Dynamics
Grace
deMon
Chimera
VMD
atom
Spyder

wireshark I learn something everytime I use it.

leafpad

ufw/gufw
synaptic
firejail
vlc
fbreader
Crossfire
thunderbird
dochelp
vscode
audacios
celluloid/mpv
bpytop
byobu/tmux

jameson20000e is harmless enough.
If the powers that be had wanted them removed they'd have done it years ago.

First thing I install is MATE because Gnome window manager is just crap since Gnome 3. And NoMachine because usually my systems are VMs on an ESXi machine in a data centre. And Webmin.

GTKHash, gImageReader, Chromium, OpenOffice (deleting LibreOffice), Sound Juicer, VLC

Thank Linux Community Members.

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Vivaldi, synaptic, gparted, k3b, kaddressbook, and kmymoney

gcc,g++, gfortran, Lazarus, Rust, dotnet, geany, gnu cobol, gnat, gparted, FreeCad, kiCad, xiphos, hp-15C emulator for starters. As I go along, other software is added as I need it.

LibreOffice and GIMP are usually already installed, so don't need to install those. The first additional ones I always install are Scribus, VLC, Handbrake, Google Chrome (or Chromium), Firefox, pdftk, Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.

It depends obviously on the Linux distribution.
With Ubuntu, I have to install:
TeX/LaTeX, Xfig, GNUPlot, gcc/gfortran, too many lib-*-dev to enumerate them, xmgrace, pstoedit, maxima or reduce-algebra, cdesktopenv.
With CentOS/SL the list is about the same.
With slackware,
(libre/open)office, xmgrace, pstoedit, maxima, cdesktopenv.

I use the Common Desktop Environment since it is faster than even Xfce and consumes very little memory. On slackware, the dtlogin manager of CDE does not have issues with non-QWERTY keyboards, in contrast with SDDM, and can be configured to launch all the window managers (fvwm, wmaker, etc...) besides CDE.

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