[Trisquel-users] Does gNewSense use less cpu and ram?

[adel . afzal]

gNewSense seems to use mate (or maybe gnome 2); I heard that mate is a little  
easier on older hardware.

I remember reading that there's no benefit in switching to mate if the  
programs rely on gnome3 anyway.  Is that correct?  I may be totally wrong.

I'm thinking of giving gNewSense a try -- what do you guys think?