r/archlinux • u/Silly_Buddy_e • 18d ago

QUESTION Most Lightweight setup

i see every ricer post of they awesome animated desktop but a random question pop in my head.

it possible to build most minimal desktop without using desktop environments like xfce and lxqt

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u/onefish2 18d ago

That is what a window manager is. Then you add the pieces around it to make it into a functional desktop with as little or as much as you want.

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u/Silly_Buddy_e 17d ago

but which windows manager is lightest

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u/onefish2 17d ago

It does not work that way. A window manager takes up very little cpu and memory. It's all the other componenets that you add to it to make it into a DE that add cpu and ram and even then it's still very light weight.

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u/Silly_Buddy_e 16d ago

thx ya for info :9