Which desktop for netbook running Ubuntu?

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After a bit of reading I'm thinking it's between xfce and lxde as the least resource intensive options. Is this right, are there any other options, and is there any particular reason to go with one over the other?
 
For a full featured DE your best bet is probably xfce. lxde is nice and light but the way I see it, if you're going to do openbox, do it yourself!

We've got a laptop that's just used for browsing/tv catchup and the occasional movie that was running on a single core celeron 550 (2GHz) and 1GB of ram with XFCE for the better part of a year that never struggled, and that was with practically no hardware graphical acceleration (SiS 672, terrible terrible old chip).

Then again, there's no harm in trying them both and seeing which one you prefer, pretty sure you could try a live usb with xubuntu or lubuntu to see which one you prefer before laying it down on bare metal.
 
I'd agree with Hairybudda to try both. I'd say if you have atleast a 1.4GHz cpu and have less than 512mb RAM go for LXDE, if you have 512mb or more than go for XFCE.

There is a pretty good comparison review of XFCE vs LXDE here.
 
Yep, now I've got a new USB key I may try the live versions and have a look. I've not really touched linux since 2003 or so, so I'm a bit off the pace with the different options!
 
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