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Midas

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Registered: 2017-12-15

Posts: 191

LinuxLinks lightweight DE comparison

Found this review while looking for some answers and thought it might be appropriate to post here.

Due to popular demand, this article extends that survey with 3 other desktops: Pantheon, Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE), and LXDE. We examine their features, user experience, resources footprint, extensibility, and documentation...

https://www.linuxlinks.com/linux-desktop-environments-pantheon-trinity-lxde/

deanr

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From: Poland

Registered: 2019-09-07

Posts: 60

Re: LinuxLinks lightweight DE comparison

Thanks for the link. Nice to see an article go beyond the regular pack of DEs.

I moved from Mint Xfce to Q4OS KDE after discovering KDE competes well in terms of resources and looks 20x better. I've also been playing around with Enlightenment DE on Q4OS recently and it's quite intriguing. The RAM usage is ridiculous - something like 200-230.

crosscourt

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From: Wash DC

Registered: 2017-05-07

Posts: 1,872

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Re: LinuxLinks lightweight DE comparison

KDE resource usage has improved hugely so no need to use XFCE when you can use the much better looking and feature rich Plasma. Im also using Mint Cinnamon which is very nice in its present form but actually prefer Q4OS KDE over it and Neon presently. My only draw for Neon is that it stays extremely up to date with the newest packages.

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