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To complete the analogy though, it is a lot different than antiX and it takes some “getting used to it” – familiarization. If you haven’t previously experimented with many other systems, their package managers, desktop environments, and other conventions, it can be a steep learning curve.
Yes, indeed. However as far as I am concerned I happen to rather easily adapt to different ways in these different desktop environments. What is important to me is their functionality and efficiency.
Although antiX is my favorite in that respect (after setting up to my liking) I like to research what DE could be ‘slapped’ on top of it for additional functionality but not to waste resources, such as memory and to ensure no memory leaks. I happened to play with some of these provided in ‘Package Installer’ on top of antiX and looking at satisfying these requirements, even if some functions did not work.
My observation in general is that from resource use a lot depends on implementation of particular DE, and difference can be quite significant.
E.g. – With the same version of Gnome an no other noticeable difference:
– Pop!_OS is using 1.2 GB memory on start
– Clear Linux is using about 700M on start. Superior architecture to Pop!_OS too…
From those desktop environments provided in antiX ‘Package Installer’ the most ‘frugal’ seems XFCE (about 350M on start), Budgie and Mate a bit more and Gnome, KDE significantly more.
I did not spend much time however to try to make them fully work, so some functionality was not there for me, e.g. adding new printers did not seem to work.
It was not my objective however, fully configured antiX Live with IceWM or Fluxbox is good and capable…
Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
http://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters