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Originally Posted by maritimesbob
Really thinking over an XFCE distro of some kind.
Just to be nitpicky... Xfce is a widow manager that comes with a distribution (as is KDE and others), there is kinda-sort no such thing as an Xfce distribution per se.
With your hardware (particularly the limited RAM) you really want to use Xfce as your window manager simply because it's not bloated and doesn't eat resources like a starved wolf pack with a fresh kill and is a clean, efficient interface with a nice look and feel.
Go get a couple of RAM sticks (they really are dirt cheap nowadays) and bring that box up to 8G or so and you'll be a lot happier with the result.
If you like windows, you're new to linux, and your x86 box is old-ish.
Lubuntu.
notepadqq
gimp and/or Krita
Honestly, searching the software center and synaptic should locate all the software you will need. (except notepadqq, which I think you have to download from the website.)
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With your hardware (particularly the limited RAM) you really want to use Xfce as your window manager simply because it's not bloated and doesn't eat resources like a starved wolf pack with a fresh kill and is a clean, efficient interface with a nice look and feel.
LXDE will likely be better for him since it's even faster/lighter than xfce and plus it resembles windows 7 a lot more.
Out of curiosity - why just an editor for the frontend? Have you tried Bluefish?
Also, for a dynamic site - is it possible to code the frontend AND have LAMP running on it, and code PHP/MySQL on the same machine??
Oops, not being clear - can I code AJAX with a setup like this?
Last edited by resetreset; 07-23-2016 at 03:17 PM.
Of course it's possible, yes you can. It's actually a nice setup to do all web based things
And easy to add virtualhost sites, without heavy dns config, just add names in /etc/hosts
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