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Now any of you that know me should be aware that my favorite GUI is LXDE,and there are quite a few reasons for this,so i will give you some.
In the real world,there are lots of old pc's out there,just being thrown away for no real good reason,some maybe 3 years old,others 10.
but this does not mean that they have no use anymore.
now if you happen to acquire 1 of these machines you can do a lot with them.
If the machine has a reasonable graphics card or chip,we can reuse this as a desktop machine,and apart from say puppy linux,macpup,slitaz and xpud,a distro with lxde will make this machine run faster than **** off a shovel.
That said,do remember that although these distro's work real fast,if you load them with cpu and ram hogging programs,it will bring them down.
which is why you will find when you d/l a distro with LXDE as its gui,you will get the one program,one task setup.
So abiword would be your doc program,gnurmeric for spreadsheets and for music there are lots,all depending on which one you choose.
Some even don't give you anything,just a base,and you add the programs that you want,which is cool for a lot of people.
so don't throw away that old machine you have in the shed,don't just consign that last part exchange you took to the junk heap,use it....
if the machine is even older or does not have a good spec,you can use it as a hardware firewall,a server or lots of other things.
even if it has no hard drive,but say 256mb ram and a cd drive,just chuck in browser linux or webconverger,as they just run from ram.
the possibilities are endless,so before you go to the dump,think first

Totally Agree

So what your saying is all Puppy uses LXDE? is that right? I didn't realize that...

Hard Drives in laptops often go fault, and I have a old Compaq HP 2000 AMD Sempron 1.8Hgz and I cannot install a Hard Drive into it as they don't work in it anymore like there is something wrong with the circuit board connection... anyhow running a Live OS CD or installing the OC to a USB Memory stick is the only option for still using this old lappy... poor thing was dropped too many times... and only Linux can bring life back into ...

no tim baby,puppy don't use lxde,jwm is the main one,i was just trying to explain that you dont have to get rid of good gear.

Its shocking to see most Windows Computers sent across the world to be
" Disposed" off, this happens of course because M$ with its policy on making the OS more bloated, more RAM, more CPU its crazy

The beauty of the Linux is the various GUI's, most of which will bring old Computer to life
The only problem for newbies like me I don't understand all theses GUI's.

Is there a section here explaining all the various GUI options, describing pros and cons?

Yes that's all true

I have explained the different GUI's in many videos that I have made and also there are some articles on this site you can read... Just navigate around the Articles section with the drop-down menu at the top to see what I've put up... anyone in the community can contribute to adding more articles to this site or give me suggestions for articles to add