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minus-squareJohn Richard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoI like some of LXQt tools, but at one point do you decide if you’re going to use Qt… why not just go all out and use KDE?
minus-squareHumanPerson@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoWhy use xfce if you want to use GTK… why not just go all out and use Gnome?
minus-squareEugenia@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoBecause it uses 250 MB of RAM on a well-optimized distro (e.g. installing it on DietPi), instead of 1.5 GB of RAM.
minus-squareJohn Richard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoSo does many of the GTK tools though… so, again… why use Qt at all if you want to save memory.
minus-squareEugenia@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoWe’re talking about a whole desktop environment, not “gtk tools”. Both lxde and lxqt are lightweight, and have more utilities and prefs than the standard window managers, or the old stuff, like icewm.
minus-squareRevan343@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoIf you like GTK use Xfce, if you like Qt use LxQt
minus-squareRevan343@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoLxQt is lighter weight and my laptop is old
I like some of LXQt tools, but at one point do you decide if you’re going to use Qt… why not just go all out and use KDE?
Lower performance machines
Why use xfce if you want to use GTK… why not just go all out and use Gnome?
It’s very lightweight
Because it uses 250 MB of RAM on a well-optimized distro (e.g. installing it on DietPi), instead of 1.5 GB of RAM.
So does many of the GTK tools though… so, again… why use Qt at all if you want to save memory.
We’re talking about a whole desktop environment, not “gtk tools”. Both lxde and lxqt are lightweight, and have more utilities and prefs than the standard window managers, or the old stuff, like icewm.
If you like GTK use Xfce, if you like Qt use LxQt
LxQt is lighter weight and my laptop is old