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.
Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment. It doesn’t support as many features as Cinnamon or MATE, but it’s extremely stable and very light on resource usage.