On Tue, 8 Dec 2015 13:07:32 +0000 Emilio Recio <emilio.re...@jefferson.edu> wrote:
> So I am just inquiring, what is the difference? I am currently using > Fedora's LxQT... yes I know that distributions can make the versions > change, but as far as the overall desktop environment, and the future > plans for the environment. I'm just a LXDE user, but since you are unlikely to get any other response at all on this dead-ish list, I'll try to do the honors: LXDE is the original gtk version. It is extremely stable, terrifically customizable, and has virtually everything one wants from a desktop environment. That was apparently boring to a lot of people so they decided to create a "better" version - LXQT - based on qt. LXDE wasn't broken but they decided to fix it anyway. LXDE has for all practical purposes just one single developer still working on it for the past year or so, and I think he is located in Ukraine so his brain has been on other things for most of that time. In fact, if you ask him a question directly, like I once did, he's likely to bark at you and maybe try to bite off your, eh, ding-dong, for daring to disturb him. But LXDE works perfectly fine as is so it keeps rolling along without a real captain. LXQT, on the other hand, has lots of developers and lots of captains working on it, all piling in to try to reinvent the LXxx wheel, so to speak. After all this time and all this work they are up to version 0.10, I think, and still far imho from reaching the existing level of stability of old LXDE. Meh. Obviously, I am biased. Personally, I switched to LXDE when gnome 2 died an undeserved premature death - was murdered actually - and then rose from the grave as the totally horrible and zombified gnome 3. Switching to LXDE I found I was able to recreate the exact, and admittedly very complicated, desktop environment that I had "lived" in gnome 2, toolbars and all else included. Note: The default install of LXDE gives you a ho-hum and even unattractive desktop environment so it can be deceiving, but it is totally customizable as you will find after using it for a while. SO. Use LXDE (gtk) if you just want to get stuff done. Use LXQT if you like cutting edge and really don't do anything important on your machine anyway ;-) Ralph ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list Lxde-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
