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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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I liked Xfce a lot, and used it for more than a few years, until it migrated to Gtk 3. (Modern Gtk breaks things that I use, and forces UI decisions that constantly get in my way. It's just not for me.) It has also become more memory-hungry over the years, so is no longer quite the lightweight desktop that it once was, although that's not why I switched.

LXQt was first on my list when looking for a replacement, but I used it only briefly, because there were too many rough edges and little integration problems. It didn't feel like a cohesive desktop compared to (old) Xfce. I imagine some of that was a side effect of ongoing work to transition away from Gtk. It was a couple years ago, so it might be better now. I still love the idea of it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] pastermil 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A little unpolished even now? I had the same impression but that was a few years ago.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Well perhaps I should have specified, but I tried it a couple years ago at least.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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:

https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=54045#p54045

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

In my experience, lxqt is lighter, but xfxe has more features and is more friendly to people with low tech skills, so I usually recommend xfce.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I also went from xfce to lxqt.