I have a Lenovo Thinkpad x140e (AMD A4-5000M 1.5GHz 2MB L2 Cache Quad-core, 4GB DDR3) that I am currently dual booting with Mint and Windows 8. Mint feels sluggish compared to Win8.
I am not doing much with it, I need to run the Spotify app, and a webpage for hosting game tournaments. I am using the HDMI out on the laptop to a 4x4 Matrix.
I am looking for suggestions for a lightweight as possible distro.
Similarly, assuming OP is using Linux Mint Cinnamon Edition, they could try out the much lighter Xfce Edition.
https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
I have used Linux Lite which also uses XFCE, but I found the system to feel far less responsive than Lubuntu on my old laptop. Ymmv though.
I think i am using Cinnamon. Is there a way to switch to Xfce without a reinstall?
https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comments/np33e1/want_to_switch_from_mint_cinnamon_to_mint_xfce/h02yw8t/
Looks like i am already running Xfce.