32 bit users: Which desktop do you use?

[dolphin_oracle]

Question says it all. If you use 32 bit editions of MX, what environment are you using.

If you are 64 bit only, no need to answer this poll.

[AVLinux]

I have two 32bit machines still in service, one netbook and a battleship Dell Inspiron. I use MX with Enlightenment + zzzFM and it uses around 200Mb of RAM to run the Desktop on the average so a bit more than Fluxbox and a bit less than the original GTK2 LXDE in my experience.

I'm sure Enlightenment will never be a seriously considered option for an MX product but I will say it gives a full and efficient 'composited' experience out of the box without further customization for whatever that is worth..

[oops]

... On a eepc (atom) x32 , I use Icewm with xfce4-power-manager (a mixte)

[wdscharff]

Question says it all. If you use 32 bit editions of MX, what environment are you using.

If you are 64 bit only, no need to answer this poll.

to late.
but if i use a 32 bit edition, the answer will be the same. :-)

[h3kt0r]

lxpolkit + xfce4-power-manager + BlackBox + lxpanel

[putih]

xfce

reason is
dpi setting to make font bigger - set at 129
connection manager - random MAC add, customised MTU
power manager - lid closed

[karlchen]

MX 21.3 32-bit Xfce v: 4.18.1

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$ inxi -SCxxx
System:    Host: paulchen Kernel: 5.10.0-30-686-pae arch: i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 clocksource: hpet
           Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.24 wm: xfwm4 v: 4.18.0 with: xfce4-panel tools: xfce4-screensaver vt: 7
             dm: LightDM v: 1.26.0 Distro: MX-21.3_386 Wildflower September 18 2022 base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
CPU:       Info: single core model: Intel Atom N450 bits: 64 type: MT smt: enabled arch: Bonnell rev: A cache: L1: 56 KiB
             L2: 512 KiB
           Speed (MHz): avg: 998 min/max: 1000/1666 cores: 1: 998 2: 998 bogomips: 6650
           Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3

[figueroa]

OpenBox WM + LXPanel with PCManFM managing the desktop.

[LinuxSpring1]

MX 21.3 32-bit Xfce v: 4.18.1

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$ inxi -SCxxx
System:    Host: paulchen Kernel: 5.10.0-30-686-pae arch: i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 clocksource: hpet
           Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.24 wm: xfwm4 v: 4.18.0 with: xfce4-panel tools: xfce4-screensaver vt: 7
             dm: LightDM v: 1.26.0 Distro: MX-21.3_386 Wildflower September 18 2022 base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
CPU:       Info: single core model: Intel Atom N450 bits: 64 type: MT smt: enabled arch: Bonnell rev: A cache: L1: 56 KiB
             L2: 512 KiB
           Speed (MHz): avg: 998 min/max: 1000/1666 cores: 1: 998 2: 998 bogomips: 6650
           Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3

Intel Atom Processor N450 512K Cache, 1.66 GHz is a 64-bit system and not a 32-bit system. So why was a 32-bit OS installed on a 64-bit system?

[karlchen]

Intel Atom Processor N450 512K Cache, 1.66 GHz is a 64-bit system and not a 32-bit system. So why was a 32-bit OS installed on a 64-bit system?

The machine has got only 1 GB of RAM. 32-bit software uses 25% to 30% less memory than 64-bit software does. This is the reason why.
The machine is almost 14 years old. I will not spend a single dime on its hardware any longer. Apart from that maximum memory which the specific machine can handle is 2 GB.
(I was amazed myself that it ran on MX Linux 21.3 at all, because it clearly fails to fulfill the minimal system requirements.)