I have an Asus 1025c netbook(2x1,86Ghz processor, 2GB ram, Intel GMA3600). The GPU(PowerVR SGX545, I believe) is not supported for any acceleration tasks. I currently run Xubuntu 14.10, but I dislike XFCE. What DE relies least of all on hardware acceleration? RAM footprint is not very important.
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According to me, MATE would be the best option. It is lightweight and at the same time, quite powerful with respect to the set of applications installed by default. The default window manager, Marco, does not use composting by default and therefore will give good performance on systems without hardware acceleration. Also, the upcoming releases will include an option to switch to Compiz for fancy desktop effects, although it is not recommended for less powerful systems.
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