#lxqt — Public Fediverse posts

Since #FydeOS was a bust on the #ebox, I did try a few other distros to see what sticks.

1) Tried #EasyOS. It was neat to play around with but not my cup of tea.

2) Attemptedto install #Fedora #LXDE, all three attempts failed during the install process.

3) currently running #AlpineLinux with #LXQT.  This might be the one I stick with for a while.


Anyone have any good ideas for a low spec cpu that has to much ram pc? The ebox is running an Intel Celeron 3965U with 16 gigs of ram?

＂… Nearly two dozen different Windows-like UIs represents a titanic waste of programmer effort, skill, and time. Hundreds, maybe thousands of people, working hard for decades… but all on different projects, meaning that none of them achieve greatness. …＂

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/10/deduplicating_the_desktops/ @lproven

(I thought I boosted this seven weeks ago. Mind playing tricks on me. It's one of a few things on my ridiculously long reading list that I actually do keep revisiting. I don't know what to think. I'm reading it in overlapping chunks.)

#desktop #Lumina #Windows #KDE #Plasma #Trinity #GNOME #MATE #Xfce #LXDE #Cinnamon #Budgie #LXQt #Deepin #Enlightenment #Equinox #IceWM #JWM #GNU #FOSS #Linux

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eine sparsame grafische Oberfläche braucht weniger Ressourcen und zudem laufen bei #linux auch nicht so viele Anwendungen im Hintergrund mit.

#xfce #lxqt wären geeignet für ältere Hardware

oder die Distributionen #linuxlite #bunsenlabs #bodhilinux #q4os #legacyos ..... u.a.

#KDEPlasma (x11 and Wayland) chuuuuuuuuug.

#LXQt ran fine had some inconsistent graphical issues. I will stick with #XFCE over this DE.

#JWM seemed fine. But I am not in the mood to set it up.

#Enlightenment installed but would not launch after boot. #Mate is “available” but wont install due to missing dependencies.

but thankfully there are parts of my #surfhosting tech stack which are fairly settled already:

OS: #LinuxMint; #Debian (with #LXQt if needed, or #BunsenLabs); #OpenWRT

Virtualization: #Proxmox

Hardware: refurb "1-liter" #1LPC business #miniPC from HP, Dell, Lenovo, with mid to high end CPU

Network: #GLiNet and #FriendlyElec #NanoPi routers / network-attached devices; #PiVPN

Phone: #VoipMS with dedicated SIP phone, plus softphone apps for limited use

Power: 90% of everything powered from compact #GaN USB-PD power supplies; 24/7 gear backed by ~15 year old consumer UPSes with drop-in LFP 12V batteries