LXDE & LXQt - The Classic Desktop Environments After 12 Years

by PCMan

At: DebConf18

The lightweight classic desktop environment LXDE has been developed for 12 years and remains one of the best choices for less powerful hardware.

In 2013, the LXDE project teamed up with the Razor-Qt project and initiated LXQt desktop together. This is a historic event in FOSS since most of the time we saw forks rather than merges. It's especially true for desktop environments. In this session, we will talk about the past and future of LXDE/LXQt and share what we have learned during the journey.

Room: Yushan (玉山)
Scheduled start: 2018-07-28 16:00:00

[azvedicgurukul]

Long time Openbox, LXDE fan here. I absolutely LOVE LXQT. Rock solid on Debian 11, wonderfully easy to configure keybindings and theme (even the runner!), light, fast, and stable. Thank you!

[WRND]

This man is a hero, subverting the stranglehold of superfluously themed and phone/tablet oriented GUIs on desktops and laptops one install at a time. <3

[EthanLR]

I like that LXQT does what its able to prevent duplication of effort, a proper perspective for FOSS development

[marekkucak]

I have been using Ubuntu for years. Now I bought an older ThinkPad and wanted to save some RAM so I installed Lubuntu. LXQt is so light and fast. Translations are not complete for my local language on Lubuntu and it takes time to figure things out but man it is just neat. LXQt has old days vibe of Windows 3.11. but you can style it really well. Thanks PCMan.

[abrahamrodriguez]

No more fight among Gnome vs KDE!. Now LXQT is the future :)

[tassaron]

I originally started using LXDE because I had a 2012 laptop that was bad in 2012, but over time as the performance difference has become less important, I'm still a big fan of LXDE and LXQt because of the modularity

[rajashahja]

hmm, Unique merger,
one more historic merger is Mephis with AntiX = MX,
now i imagine LXQt on MX Linux
;-)

[Doing_Time]

I used to keep long lists of WM/DE I liked and disliked...then Unity came out and it was a unifying experience: anything but Unity is just fine (I had a similar MS experience when MS put out Metro)...but you've made my top 3 twice:
1. TDE
2. LXDE
3. LXQt