I am looking for light weight distrobutions to install on Ducky. Try: Sparky with LXQt, Lubuntu with LXQt Debian 9 - XFCE Morgana is currently running Debian 9 - XFCE. Iceweasel will run Google mail and calendar, but slow and clunky; CPU is often over 2.0, RAM is swapping. Bodhi - the Enlightened Linux Distribution Requires too much RAM (4GB) [1]: #1 Hardware minimums: 500MHz processor 128MB RAM 4GB storage space family: Ubuntu LTS-based (18.04) desktop: Moksha, a continuation of Enlightenment 17 releases: Legacy: 32-bit standard: AppPack [2]: #5 window manager: Enlightenment default apps: Ephoto for Graphics, Midori for web browsing, ePad text editor no applications for Multimedia. Hardware minimums: RAM: 256 MB of RAM CPU: 1.0 GHz Disk space: 4 GB of drive space Puppy Has it's own repositories and application manager [1]: #2 Hardware minimums: 333MHz processor 256MB RAM [2]: #2 latest release is Puppy Linux 6.0.2 tahrpup CE; liveboot; window managers: JWM and Openbox default apps: Abiword for word processing, Gnumeric for spreadsheets Hardware minimums: RAM: 64MB (recommended 256 MB) CPU: 333MHz Xenialpup [1]: #2b Puppy Linux 7.5 is the latest release of the distro. As this small Linux distro is based on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, it's called Xenialpup. It comes both in 32-bit and 64-bit versions and one can install them on UEFI and BIOS enabled PCs. Linux Lite [1]: #3 lightweight, beginner-friendly, and good looking; Ubuntu-based lightweight Linux OS that's based on LTS releases; Xfce desktop; Hardware minimums: 700MHz processor 512MB RAM VGA screen 1024 x 768 resolution [2]: #8 family: Ubuntu LTS default apps: Firefox for web browsing, Thunderbird for emails, Dropbox for Cloud storage, VLC Media Player for Music, LibreOffice for office, Gimp for image editing Hardware minimums: RAM: 512 MB RAM (recommended 1 GB) CPU: 700MHz processor Display: VGA screen 1024 x 768 resolution (recommended VGA, DVI or HDMI screen 1366 x 768) Disk space: At least 5 GB free disk space Ubuntu MATE [1]: #4 desktop: GTK3+ there is a netbook layout; Hardware minimums: 750MHz processor 512MB RAM 1024 x 768 resolution or higher Lubuntu [1]: #5 offical Ubuntu flavor 64-bit only desktop: LXQt Hardware minimums: Pentium II or higher 258MB RAM [2]: #9 family: Ubuntu, offical lightest derivatives of Ubuntu desktop: LXDE Hardware minimums: RAM: 512 MB of RAM (recommended 1GB) CPU: Pentium 4 or Pentium M or AMD K8 or higher Arch [1]: #6 64-bit only Hardware minimums: 512MB RAM 64-bit architecture LXLE [1]: #7 Based on Lubuntu, LTS releases desktop: LXLE default apps: LibreOffice, GIMP, Audacity, Hardware minimums: 512MB RAM Pentium 3 CPU or higher [2]: #7 respin of Lubuntu LTS Hardware minimums: RAM: 512 MB (recommended 1 GB) CPU: Pentium 3 (recommended Pentium 4) Disk space: 8 GB Peppermint [1]: #8 combination of a cloud-based infrastructure and the regular desktop applications; 32-bit and 64-bit hardware; desktop: LXDE Hardware minimums: 512MB RAM Intel x86 architecture CPU [2]: #10 based on Ubuntu desktop: LXDE Hardware minimums: 1 GB of RAM (recommended 2 GB) Processor based on Intel x86 architecture At least 4 GB of available disk space antiX [1]: #9 based on Debian and ships without systemd 32-bit and 64-bit flavors: Full, Base, Core, Net. live bootloaders Hardware minimums: 256MB RAM Intel 64-bit and 32-bit architecture CPU [2]: #4 family: debian, no systemd window manager: icewm Hardware minimums: RAM: 256 MB of RAM CPU: PIII systems Disk space: 2.7 GB of drive space Manjaro Linux Xfce Edition [1]: #10 based on Arch Hardware minimums: 1GB RAM 1GHz PCU 64-bit only CrunchBang++ [2]: #6 family: Debian 9 window manager: Openbox default apps: Geany IDE, Terminator terminal emulator, Thunar File Manager, Gimp for image editing, Viewnior image viewer, VLC Media Player for music, Xfburn CD/DVD burning software, Iceweasel for web browsing, Transmission torrent client, Gnumeric spreadsheet editor, Evince pdf viewer, gFTP file transfer client, Xchat IRC client, AbiWord for office. Hardware minimums: 512 MB of RAM and Pentium 4 CPU. Sparky [2]: #3 family: debian testing uses it's own repositories desktops: LXDE, OpenBox/JWM, e17, MATE, LXQt, Cli and the GameOver edition. LXQt is quite faster than other mentioned except Cli (Command Line Interface). versions: full: base: Hardware minimums: RAM: 256 MB of RAM for LXDE, e17, Openbox, GameOver and 384MB RAM for MATE, LXQt CPU: i486/amd64 Disk space: 5 GB of drive space Tiny Core [2]: #1 family: forked from Damn Small project editions: Core: the base system that has only CLI (Command Line Interface). Tiny Core: GUI CorePlus: Hardware minimums: RAM: 46 MB (recommended 64 MB) CPU: Pentium 2 ############################## References: [1] https://fossbytes.com/best-lightweight-linux-distros/ [2] https://itsfoss.com/lightweight-linux-beginners/