Memory pressure is tiny. About 400 Mb with XFCE Desktop.
But vmware PC/x64 image does not support h/w acceleration for CSS transition (chromium) and youtube.
Also missing famous XFCE panel widgets such as CPU Usage, Memory Usage, and Swap usage.
It’s a minimal installation. You can add/install these missing options yourself if needed.
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For XFCE, the widgets were an integral part of the DE on Debian and Ubuntu. They were never installed/added manually. What about Diet Pi?
Update: the widgets are packed into xfce4-widgets.
The remaining questions are about h/w acceleration for CSS transitions and the video on Chromium.
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The VMs “virtual GPU” doesn’t expose real GPU hardware acceleration to the guest OS like a normal GPU driver would.
Or does it work with plain Debian with the same VM setup?
sudo apt install xfce4-goodies xfce4 -y
There are many utilities/packages that can be added to xfce4 after install (it will increase install size though) Lightweight…but anything added after stock install will enlarge the install.
Depends on the hypervisor…might need the hypervisor “driver” package installed after the fact in order to utilize hardware acceleration. Similar to how you need the VMWare tools or VirtualBox “guest additions” package in order to utilize those “special” passthru type features where say PROXMOX you just pass hardware control thru from the HOST OS to the guest os, usually removing control of the hardware from the host.
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Open VM Tools are not preinstalled on the image, but Diet Wizard asks to choose between two browsers