What's the lightest Ubuntu desktop environment? [duplicate]

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My computer has 1GB ram and a very low graphic card, but I don't know how much powerful it is.

My computer is very slow with Ubuntu Unity and I saw that there are many desktop environments which are much faster, even for a slow computer.

So, what's the lightest desktop environment.

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