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minus-squareJohn Richard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years 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-up0·2 years agoWhy use xfce if you want to use GTK… why not just go all out and use Gnome?
minus-squareEugenia@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years 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-up0·2 years 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-up0·2 years 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-up0·2 years agoIf you like GTK use Xfce, if you like Qt use LxQt
minus-squareRevan343@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years 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?
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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