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Ubuntu and fedora aren’t lightweight, I recommend Linux Mint XFCE or peppermint OS
Peppermint's a joke. Isn't xfce as heavy as other DEs nowadays?
No not really. Gnome for me is about 2.5 gigs of Ram, XFCE 700 megabytes and the CPU load also is way lower. XFCE can be heavy or light depending on how you configure it
KDE uses 700mb on my system