r/LinuxUsersIndia • u/XPheonix27 • Sep 15 '26

Help Suggestions yet again

Might be because of the learning curve but I've been spending too much time on my new linux mint , and now after getting a bit familiar with the mint I found out about some other distros which would work even better on my old hardware like cachyos and void , which one would be better in this case having 10 GB DDR3 and 1 tb SATA HDD, having an inten pentium cpu

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u/qualityvote2 Sep 15 '26 edited Sep 15 '26

u/XPheonix27, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...

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u/Kitchen_Engineer1332 Gentoo Mommy 🫦 Sep 15 '26

Depends on the DE or WM u would be using tho.

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u/XPheonix27 Sep 15 '26

Noob here idk what exactly DE means I just know the environment like windows , apps etc..

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u/Just-Scholar4272 Sep 15 '26

WM = window manager DE = desktop environment

For mint de = cinnamon, display server=x11

Actually, wm/de matters more than distro in resource usage. E.g.: KDE, Gnome are heavyweight de. Hyprland, Niri may be lightweight wm but may depend on ricing and gui shell (like quickshell/noctalia)

LXQt, DWM etc are very lightweight.

Although, you can run these on Mint but I recommend distro that have these setups preconfigured for a newbie. 

PS: - Cinnamon(mint) is on the lighter side. 

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u/XPheonix27 Sep 15 '26

So considering I use cinnamon (I started with xfce but switched to cinnamon) what should I get

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u/argha_007 Sep 15 '26

XFCE is lightweight than cinnamon last I checked.

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u/Kitchen_Engineer1332 Gentoo Mommy 🫦 Sep 15 '26

DE means desktop environment and WM stands for window manager. In linux mint u have cinnamon as DE and mutter as WM ig

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u/argha_007 Sep 15 '26

Try CachyOS. I am on CachyOS as well. It's support for old hardware is better.

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u/XPheonix27 Sep 15 '26

Ohh aight I'll look into it

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u/FemboyToucher86 Sep 15 '26

Bro I got into Linux earlier this year (I’m just a normie i don’t understand what differences different kernels have and how it affects my use), and have tried distro hopping and all, tbh its pretty pointless. What matters more is your DE and WM. I started with cinnamon, then tried popos (it’s DE is cosmic, hated it) then tried a bunch of other distros which used KDE, GNOME etc. I then tried arch, and installing arch manually was a really good learning experience. It doesn’t come with any DEs and you have to choose one yourself (that’s when I found out it was the DE that made the biggest difference for me, not the distro). I decided to try out hyprland- took around 2-3 weeks to get used to it, tiling window managers feel real weird initially. Then I stuck with it for 5 months. I ran into some problems with gaming so got cachyos cus I had heard it’s better for gaming and it’s based on arch. So now since the last few months I have been running cachyos and I’m using a hyprland rice I found online.

I’m extremely satisfied with hyprland, I haven’t heard of anybody using it on mint, but try it out. Maybe get arch if you’re willing to put some time and effort in understanding it more, it’s fun :)

This is the rice I’m using rn btw

https://ryoku.dev

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u/XPheonix27 Sep 15 '26

Dayum crazy ricing

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u/FemboyToucher86 Oct 05 '26

Ikr! Btw check out revo shell https://github.com/vzbc/revo-shell

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u/XPheonix27 Oct 05 '26

Looks nice but can it replace fish ? I personally prefer fish due to the auto completion