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. Although LXLE could run on lower specs, it's usefulness online would be negligible.

Pentium 3 processor with at least 512 mb of ram and 8 GB of hard drive space.

Pentium 4 processor with 1gb or more of ram and 8 GB of hard drive space..