Top 5 Best Lightweight Linux Distros for Maximum Speed | The Ultimate Performance Showdown! (NEW)

You forgot Antix, the best one

But... How we don't have Gentoo on performance distros? I think three should be also antiX and artix, they are more lightweight I think

I tried Linux Mint Cinnamon, MATE, XFCE and Lubuntu on my Lenovo Thinkpad X130e notebook. None give any performance. Specs: AMD E450 APU, 4GB RAM and 250GB HDD.

They are good for new ultra low end machines that only runs the Intel cereron duel core cpus and only has 4gb of ram

for maximum speed? Bodhi does it good yes, but not with Mint mate, Manjaro, or Zorin lite.. there's Antix, Lubuntu, Puppy, Q4OS Trinty, Sparky, Peppermint.. they beat them at speed

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Linux mint is rock solid

Arch Linux only distro and then debian

Debian 12 still the best

why are you yelling?

I tried about 6 different Linux distros, and have found MX Linux to be my favorite overall. On a 12-year old computer, it performs like a much newer and more powerful one. It has so many extra features than any other distro.

Manjaro... close video.

Hi - - this is the video I've been looking for. Question: are these 32 bit distros? 🙂

What about pad gestures and other laptop-specific features? I like your videos but there's a sense of lack of criticism. In my view.

Remove Manjaro, it don't have 32 bit support🙂

can anyone consider nobara os as a lightweight linux distro please answer

Excellent video!!!! I have tried all these distros at some point. I still have a liking for bodhi Linux. It just looks cool and is fast!

I am using pure Debian with all the desktop environments installed from the net installer. It's fast. Even on my 2008 HP desktop it works great. No complaints whatsoever!!!

your definition of light is?

hello, is there any linux os that can run IDE like visual studio 2022..??

instant os

I thought huh interesting. Then saw Manjaro. That's not even close to lightweight... Just use some random lightweight distro that is customizable enough to take these (kinda suckless) parts. Sinit for the init system. sbase+ubase for coreutils + util-linux. Then for the gui you might expect me to say dwm. But that's based on xorg which has about 420k lines of code so no. I'd say velox is your best bet for the almost exact dwm experience. But with about 20x better speed and lower size. If you take these steps. Depending on what parts you use in you use in your system (Because some drivers are lighter than others). You would get about 50-70 MB RAM usage. And that RAM usage entirely depends on how light you compile the Linux kernel. My personal system uses about 10 MB because I compiled the kernel with the lightest settings that I would use.

Manjaro XFCE, Mint MATE, Zorin? Really? Those great distros should not be mentioned here. They could be good on ~6 year old any form computer with 4 GB RAM, but ~12 y. o.? With 1 - 2 GB of RAM? No way. After few days of using, installing software and updates, they will become slow and sluggish. Only Bodhi, MX, Debian +LXDE or OpenBox, LXLE, Manjaro+OpenBox.

Too bad they don't run the huge amount of Windows software out there. Windows is the best OS simply because it's the one that most programs run on. You can do anything with Windows....not so with Linux.

Ex mac user here. Ive been using LM for months now. Extremely happy 😍

Its "Bodhi", not "Body". I would have expected Indian to have better grasp at that.

Nice, thanks

The list/video started quite badly. But in the end, from the #2 it got better. I mean, #1 and #2 are genuine lightweight distros. And the information in the conclusion was pretty good.

Still, I can't get over things like not mentioning Antix, Arch or Gentoo (and there are more), but instead focusing on offtopic things like how good it looks. The author either doesn't understand a bit what "Maximum Speed | Ultimate Performance" mean or they're deep deep into clickbait. Disliked.

Since 2009, I have been utilizing SliTaz. And I continue to use it today, which allows me to complete a lot of tasks efficiently. There is no need to acquire a new laptop.

I am picking linux mint xfce

Linux mint for its simplicity

I thought MX Linux and Manjaro XFCE were both pretty good. But TROMjaro is on a whole other level IMO in terms of user friendliness, flexibility and ease of customization, and consistent aesthetics.

HaikuOS is also good OS for low power old PC. Work good on netbook. But still in beta version sometime freeze

XM Linux with KDE should be still relatively light

which linux distro uses less battery ?. my window my laptop battey life is only 5 hours .please suggest any linux distro which provide better battery backup and performance

TBH At last I saw the man the behind such good authoritative voice. 🤣

I believe that you didn't researched this issue very deep. Instead of Manjaro, I think you should have put Mabox, which is a lighter version of Manjaro

Installed mx linux on dual core, but still it takes 1.1 gb ram idle

antix

puppy linux ( bionicpup64 ) default root account

slax ( for usb ) also root account

Have you tried Puppy Linux, Anti-X and Q4OS?
I have a very very old portable tablet pc (Pentium 3, 1gb ram)[~20 year old hardware] running Anti-X and it still works. That's what I call real lightweight with legacy support for old hardware. Not hardware from 5~8 years ago.

make a video on pikaOs if possible...

The fastest is Chrome OS Flex and easy for new users.

Manjaro is not stable b/c they do not test against a wide enough variety of software before releasing updates.

Opensuse >>>>>>>>>> ALL distro
Opensuse == Linux gamer

q4OS

Linux Mint support for Nvidia is terrible. Pop!os has much better Nvidia support.

Your choices based on taste. If I had made this video, without a doubt Zorin OS would have been number 1.

please review Nobara and pop os

Can someone please tell me which Linux distribution I can use for coding on my Lenovo X220 laptop with 4GB of RAM and 320GB of storage?

Great list and an easy transition from windows for most people.
I remember using mcc interim and tamu back in the early 90s then switching to dos and then to mandrake and other distros. These days I use bog standard manjaro xfce.
Is there a reason you didn't cover an lxqt de?

As a 2 year Linux user, I can assure that every distro is same (except package managers). They all run the same. Every distro can be modified to look and perform like other distros. You just need to know your softwares. You first experiment with several distros and decide to settle down with one. Then you experiment on it to squeeze out every drop of performance.... ;)