Lightweight Linux That's Both Beautiful *and* Functional
KDE is, in this writer's humble opinion, the best desktop environment for computers today. It is even better than the almost universally praised Mac OS X. It goes without saying that it is better than any Microsoft product. That said, there is one principal problem with it: At the time of this writing, the latest version KDE is too slow on any machine that's running below a Pentium IV with at least 250 MB of RAM (at the time of this writing). In other words, you can't have eye-candy without bloat.
Now there are a lot of machines out there that are below those specifications, so running them as desktop machines with KDE on them is not going to be the most pleasant experience you've had. But, let's say, you've got this machine. It's, say, a Pentium III.
An alternative choice if you're looking for something that's light on resources is Xubuntu. This Ubuntu variant is based around the XFCE desktop, which shouldn't be too much of a shock to people migrating from Windows. I have found, however, that Xubuntu can be a bit heavier than you'd think on system requirements. About the most minimalist I would go without scaring anybody away would be Xubuntu.
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What a crock!
What a crock!
PCLOS MiniME runs nicely on my Celeron 900 with 256MB PC133 RAM. It's quick, it's snappy, and it's lovely
You don't need XFCE nor Ubuntu for things to work. If KDE needed a pentium 4, we'd all be in trouble.
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Lightweight 'buntu
Fluxbuntu is another nice lightweight member of the Ubuntu clan, with Fluxbox as (my favorite) window manager. Even XFCE is slow compared to Flux!