I’m not trying to start a war here, just wondering what your takes are. They pretty much have the same concept of lightweight desktop, but with different toolkits.
I’m a KDE person myself, but I’ve had experience with XFCE.
I’ve tried LXQt in the past but never really gotten into it, perhaps the timing was just not right.
I feel the same, though having more options for lightweight DEs is better. I came from gnome 2 after Ubuntu switched to Unity DE back in the day. Xubuntu ran nice on all of my kids low power devices and it became my desktop as well ever since. It’s just as happy on my work laptop as well as Ryzen thread ripper with 3 rtx4000s and 3 magewell hdmi capture cards we use for visualization at work too. It really feels like a solid DE with less fuss than most.
XFCE would be my go-to if I used a DE. I tried LXQT briefly in a VM but I found it a little unpolished.
A little unpolished even now? I had the same impression but that was a few years ago.
Well perhaps I should have specified, but I tried it a couple years ago at least.
I’ve lived in XFCe for years, awhile ago, now use LXQT.
XFCe had this goddamn thing where windows had a 1-pixel thick window-grabber.
There was no means of fixing it, that I could find.
UbuntuStudio.org used XFCe, too, btw…
Eventually I got sooo fed-up with the broken UX that I just committed to never using XFCe ever again.
That was sometime in the last few years…
Heh that is annoying, then I learned about alt-rmb. They really do need a way to allow for larger grab areas easily, if not already possible.
I found this solution to border theme for increased grab area and will try it as well:
I also went from xfce to lxqt.
