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I have been told the kde has similar (or maybe even lower) footprint despite doing more.

Yes, despite all the bad advertising and all the persistent ghost (that just won't go away) KDE's Plasma as evolved a lot over the years and is now very lite while doing a lot of things (and if you have a sluggish Plasma DE, then your computer or distro DOES HAVE A PROBLEM that is not KDE's fault)

for me KDE plasma isn't sluggish but cold starting apps like dolphin is significantly slower than xfce's thunar, thunar it's pretty much instant while dolphin is about 1.5s

If you care about 1.5s and other measures in the same sizes, then this post is for sure of interest to you, because you can save 100MB+ of RAM and have a perfectly functional and beauty DE with LXQt!

By the way, I use Plasma on my everyday job and I can't complain of it.

It's fast, feature full and works very well. (I never seem to understand how people complain of it being slow, bloated, whatever... Mine isn't!!) The thing I love the most in it is being able to set it in whatever way I want. I never get tired of it and so far it hasn't let me down. I'm always amazed that, whatever crazy idea I think of that can speed up my work, or make me more comfortable about my DE, they have an option for it!!!

It's a kind of freedom I can't find anywhere else.

For older computers where every MB counts (plasma uses around 350-500mb), or for people who don't care about extreme customizations (that are happy with an XP/7 like DE), then LXQt is used

No, I'm coming from the other way - if I have 6700k OC'ed to 4.6Ghz, 32GBs of RAM and an SSD, i want all these basic apps to show up instantaneously. I think I've payed enough money for this kind of experience not to suck.

Also time matters for me because I am mostly using my keyboard, chaining commands, so I start imputing stuff right after I open it and if those commands are missed because the application is still loading it sucks.

LOL!!!

Fair enough!!!

Have you tried PCmanFM and LXQt? I think you'll be pleased

I've tried XFCE and thunar(both of which are incredibly fast and I loved them), but I've switched to KDE this year because there was always one annoying bug (last one was with large screenshots https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20674473 ). I've also tried LXDE but the window manager seemed very basic compared to XFCE, but I haven't tried LXQT.

I'll do another set of tests once Ubuntu (or rather PopOS) 20.04 LTS releases.

Let me suggest you to, when you do try Lubuntu with LXQt, use kwin as the WM.

It's very lite (you won't notice the difference when compared to openbox) and it's feature full/very powerful.

LXQt devs have mentioned they will probably migrate to kwin when Wayland arrives for good.

(and forget lxde. LXQt is the future ;)

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