Comment by russfink
1 day ago
The article just sort of stops. Was the ram upgrade helpful? How was the mouse - was it choppy like in Windows XP as discussed at the top of the article? (And whatever happened to twm, possibly the lightest window manager around?)
"I did not expect much, and because the bottlenecks were the HDD and CPU I did not feel any noticeable performance improvement."
Sounds like it started on XP running poorly, and ended on Arch... running poorly.
twm still around but might be a separate package these days and not in X11 core. CWM (Calm Window Manager) from OpenBSD is available in portable form and packaged for Debian. Very light and good for tiny screens (little decoration).
would love to see twm get active again as well
Have a look at MWM (Motif Window Manager). Colour icons (gasp) and windows that actually maximise. Packaged in Debian so I suppose around in Arch repositories somewhere.