Re: [Trisquel-users] [POLL] What is your preferred desktop environment of Trisquel 8 ?

[dguthrie]

On battery life, LXDE is certainly the lightest desktop environment on its  
own, and its default applications are very light. But after LXDE, the  
difference between other desktop environments is actually not great. In some  
cases, XFCE is actually less lightweight than GNOME Shell! The power  
management is actually pretty similar. The features that drain power the most  
are applications. If you use your laptop for libreoffice, you will not get  
significantly worse battery life on GNOME vs a reputedly lighter desktop  
environment such as MATE or XFCE. Other than just the shell or a window  
manager such as Fluxbox, the best battery life is LXDE+no  
wallpaper+lightweight apps.
So my point is for an average user who likes the wallpaper, WiFi access,  
heavy applications such as Libreoffice, MATE is not much better than GNOME.
KDE on the other hand, is bloated (QT?) and therefore is a battery guzzler.