LXLE is designed to have a low system footprint. In other words it doesn't take a lot of hardware resources to run well. Those saved resources are then spent on full featured capable programs to provide a complete desktop experience even on aging hardware, roughly any computer produced in the past ten years.

Todays' internet demands a great deal of resources to be an adequate online experience. 2gb of ram or more is suggested.

64 bit processor with 1gb or more of ram and 10 GB of hard drive space..