Try Alpine. It's amazing.
Xubuntu 22.04 took nearly 10 GB of disk and half a gig of RAM. I measured it:
https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/18/ubuntu_remixes/
Alpine takes 1.1 GB of disk and under 200 MB of RAM.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/05/new_lts_kernel_and_al...
Both running a full Xfce $CURRENT desktop, in a Virtualbox VM.
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Try Alpine. It's amazing.
Xubuntu 22.04 took nearly 10 GB of disk and half a gig of RAM. I measured it:
https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/18/ubuntu_remixes/
Alpine takes 1.1 GB of disk and under 200 MB of RAM.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/05/new_lts_kernel_and_al...
Both running a full Xfce $CURRENT desktop, in a Virtualbox VM.