Release LXQt 2.0.0 | LXQt
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The LXQt team announces the release of LXQt 2.0.0, the Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment.
  • John Richard
    8•8 months ago

    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?

    • EugeniaEnglish
      4•8 months ago

      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.

      • John Richard
        1•8 months ago

        So does many of the GTK tools though… so, again… why use Qt at all if you want to save memory.

        • EugeniaEnglish
          4•8 months ago

          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.

      • John Richard
        1•8 months ago

        I use Hyrpland, and so there are times where I need to use GTK or Qt tools. I generally don’t like KDE-based tools though because they are dependency-heavy.

  • 🦊 OneRedFox 🦊English
    5•8 months ago

    I don’t use LXQt itself, but its software suite is nice if you want a Qt desktop with a tiling window manager. Looking forward to it landing in my distro. 👍

    • boredsquirrel
      4•8 months ago

      Note that LXQt doensnt include a window manager, but runs independently on top of others like Sway, KWin, Hyprland, Wayfire (Wayland) or Openbox and others (XOrg)

  • @[email protected]
    1•8 months ago

    So…

    2.0 was a switch to QT6

    and

    2.1.0 brings us Wayland? Very exciting! Definitely will check it out (as a full session), as I always pick apps from either XFCE or LXQT for my tiling window manager set up. I’ve been using Thunar lately, though I’m open to switching back to pcmanfm if I want to.

  • @[email protected]
    -1•8 months ago

    LXQt is the best desktop environment plus it’s so lightweight. LXQt is proof GNome is a bloated hot garbage.

    • MarkEnglish
      1•8 months ago

      So many more features than gnome, while being one of if not the most lightweight DE