Jure Repinc@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months agoLXQt 2.0.0 releasedlxqt-project.orgexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkLXQt 2.0.0 releasedlxqt-project.orgJure Repinc@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squareJohn Richard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 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-squareEugenia@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 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-up0·5 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-up0·5 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.
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
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.