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Geechan

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Geechan•4/28/24, 5:05 AM

KDE Plasma has gotten a lot better and I consider it very good looking and polished too. No, my main issue is I much prefer GTK apps to Qt, and GNOME has a much more consistent visual design with its apps

Astral

AAstral GNOME's visual consistency is unparalleled in Linux DE's tbh

Valerie

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Valerie•4/28/24, 5:05 AM

Consistently bad

Valerie

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Valerie•4/28/24, 5:05 AM

Hex

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Hex•4/28/24, 5:05 AM

and Kvantum is not a solution

Geechan

GGeechan KDE Plasma has gotten a lot better and I consider it very good looking and polis...

Astral

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AstralOP•4/28/24, 5:05 AM

pretty much this yeah. I just like how GTK looks and it provides apps with a very visually consistent design language

Valerie

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Valerie•4/28/24, 5:05 AM

The thing I cannot stand about GTK4 is how visually bloated it is

Valerie

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Valerie•4/28/24, 5:05 AM

There's so little going on in such a large amount of space

Hex

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Hex•4/28/24, 5:06 AM

one thing I don't like about GTK4

Astral

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AstralOP•4/28/24, 5:06 AM

eh, I don't really have that problem but I find that's because there's an art to managing space

Hex

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Hex•4/28/24, 5:06 AM

is the fact that it has little to no customizability

Valerie

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Valerie•4/28/24, 5:06 AM

Yeah that sucks

Hex

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Hex•4/28/24, 5:06 AM

also, one thing I can't agree with you

Hex

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Hex•4/28/24, 5:06 AM

you can't call it bloated at all

Hex

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Hex•4/28/24, 5:06 AM

you can call it overminimalist

Astral

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AstralOP•4/28/24, 5:06 AM

too MUCH space and yeah, things can get a bit crap, but too LITTLE space and it gets way overcrowded and tricky to parse

Hex

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Hex•4/28/24, 5:06 AM

but not bloated

Hex

HHex you can't call it bloated at all

Valerie

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Valerie•4/28/24, 5:06 AM

I guess a better word is inefficient

Hex

HHex you can call it overminimalist

Geechan

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Geechan•4/28/24, 5:07 AM

That's a more apt description

Geechan

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Geechan•4/28/24, 5:07 AM

Qt apps could be considered bloated

Hex

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Hex•4/28/24, 5:07 AM

mostly

Hex

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Hex•4/28/24, 5:07 AM

not all QT software are bloated

Hex

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Hex•4/28/24, 5:07 AM

but most

FennecTECH

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FennecTECH•4/28/24, 5:07 AM

Im still sad they killed off lxde

Geechan

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Geechan•4/28/24, 5:07 AM

Of course

Hex

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Hex•4/28/24, 5:08 AM

LXQuiteTrash

FennecTECH

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FennecTECH•4/28/24, 5:08 AM

That DE let me run a 512mb ram thinkpad on the modern web into the late 2010s

Astral

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AstralOP•4/28/24, 5:08 AM

QT is such an oddball tbh

FennecTECH

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FennecTECH•4/28/24, 5:08 AM

Even google chrome

Hex

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Hex•4/28/24, 5:08 AM

icewm on alpine

Hex

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Hex•4/28/24, 5:08 AM

https://tenor.com/bRyeK.gif

Tenor

Hex

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Hex•4/28/24, 5:09 AM

160MB

FennecTECH

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FennecTECH•4/28/24, 5:09 AM

LXDE was running arround 80 megabytes of ram

Hex

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Hex•4/28/24, 5:09 AM

even less if you don't use the fancy themes

FennecTECH

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FennecTECH•4/28/24, 5:09 AM

512mb of ram was the total ram for the system

Hex

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Hex•4/28/24, 5:09 AM

actually

Valerie

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Valerie•4/28/24, 5:10 AM

What's LXQt like? I've only used it a lil bit

Hex

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Hex•4/28/24, 5:10 AM

now I'm tempted to retry making an alpine installation with icewm

FennecTECH

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FennecTECH•4/28/24, 5:10 AM

45 mb is possible. I got it down to arround 60 in my normal use case

Valerie

VValerie What's LXQt like? I've only used it a lil bit

Hex

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Hex•4/28/24, 5:10 AM

garbage

FennecTECH

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FennecTECH•4/28/24, 5:10 AM

Yeah

Valerie

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Valerie•4/28/24, 5:10 AM

garbage in what way

Geechan

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Geechan•4/28/24, 5:10 AM

It's pretty bad lol

Valerie

VValerie garbage in what way

Hex

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Hex•4/28/24, 5:10 AM

feels sluggish

FennecTECH

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FennecTECH•4/28/24, 5:10 AM

I was using the good ol platinum theme in lxde. Thing looked just like a classic Mac

Hex

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Hex•4/28/24, 5:10 AM

and uses a lot more ram

Hex

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Hex•4/28/24, 5:11 AM

I'm starting to want to throw my keyboard at the wall

Hex

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Hex•4/28/24, 5:11 AM

it's constantly missing keys

Valerie

VValerie What's LXQt like? I've only used it a lil bit

wolfyreload

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wolfyreload•4/28/24, 5:11 AM

I'm using it on an ancient 15 year old desktop, it isn't amazing but gets the job done

FennecTECH

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FennecTECH•4/28/24, 5:11 AM

But yeah. LXDE was insane for being a full DE while being slim.

wolfyreload

Wwolfyreload I'm using it on an ancient 15 year old desktop, it isn't amazing but gets the jo...

Valerie

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Valerie•4/28/24, 5:11 AM

It's on my 3D Print server but I only touched it like once