should i install gentoo on my laptop

the specs for it is a windows 8.0 eara intel Pentium cpu 3.9 gigs of ram , and windoes takes ~50% of ram . if so what desktop/tiling window manager should i emerge

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leanleft@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y

boredline IMO. round down.

Luffy879@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y

Gentoo is designed for this kind of PC Also, if you habe another PC to run distcc on, it might maybe even to usable

Digit@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 264d

should i install gentoo on my laptop

Yes

if so what desktop/tiling window manager should i emerge

Whichever you like. Gentoo is all about choice. IceWM and jwm are windowsy, and very very light.

... I'd choose to upgrade the hardware. ;) (~ if you've not already in the 4 years since posting that. Sorry to leave you hanging so long). ;D

Peter1986c@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 4y

While it is not impossible to setup Gentoo Linux on a machine like that, I do not know whether it is worth the hassle. I would just go for Linux Mint or so (would be light enough, esp. their flavour with XFCE).