you can't call it bloated at all

HexOP•4/28/24, 5:06 AM

you can call it overminimalist

Astral•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

HexOP•4/28/24, 5:06 AM

but not bloated

HHex you can't call it bloated at all

Valerie•4/28/24, 5:06 AM

I guess a better word is inefficient

HHex you can call it overminimalist

Geechan•4/28/24, 5:07 AM

That's a more apt description

Geechan•4/28/24, 5:07 AM

Qt apps could be considered bloated

HexOP•4/28/24, 5:07 AM

mostly

HexOP•4/28/24, 5:07 AM

not all QT software are bloated

HexOP•4/28/24, 5:07 AM

but most

FennecTECH•4/28/24, 5:07 AM

Im still sad they killed off lxde

Geechan•4/28/24, 5:07 AM

Of course

HexOP•4/28/24, 5:08 AM

LXQuiteTrash

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•4/28/24, 5:08 AM

QT is such an oddball tbh

FennecTECH•4/28/24, 5:08 AM

Even google chrome

HexOP•4/28/24, 5:08 AM

icewm on alpine

HexOP•4/28/24, 5:08 AM

https://tenor.com/bRyeK.gif

Tenor

HexOP•4/28/24, 5:09 AM

160MB

FennecTECH•4/28/24, 5:09 AM

LXDE was running arround 80 megabytes of ram

HexOP•4/28/24, 5:09 AM

even less if you don't use the fancy themes

FennecTECH•4/28/24, 5:09 AM

512mb of ram was the total ram for the system

HexOP•4/28/24, 5:09 AM

actually

Valerie•4/28/24, 5:10 AM

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

HexOP•4/28/24, 5:10 AM

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

FennecTECH•4/28/24, 5:10 AM

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

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

HexOP•4/28/24, 5:10 AM

garbage

FennecTECH•4/28/24, 5:10 AM

Yeah

Valerie•4/28/24, 5:10 AM

garbage in what way

Geechan•4/28/24, 5:10 AM

It's pretty bad lol

VValerie garbage in what way

HexOP•4/28/24, 5:10 AM

feels sluggish

FennecTECH•4/28/24, 5:10 AM

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

HexOP•4/28/24, 5:10 AM

and uses a lot more ram

HexOP•4/28/24, 5:11 AM

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

HexOP•4/28/24, 5:11 AM

it's constantly missing keys

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

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•4/28/24, 5:11 AM

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

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

Valerie•4/28/24, 5:11 AM

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

Valerie•4/28/24, 5:12 AM

Oh, it's on my Jellyfin server too. Only because my Jellyfin server is a mac and I needed some kind of GUI to turn the screen off.

wolfyreload•4/28/24, 5:13 AM

I used to use Plex on eveerything but I'm really loving Jellyfin

Astral•4/28/24, 5:13 AM

Tbh stuff like lxqt and mate are all in a weird place with how slowly wayland support is moving there

Geechan•4/28/24, 5:15 AM

Cinnamon is one of the few bigger environments outside the main ones actively working towards Wayland support

HexOP•4/28/24, 5:15 AM

time to see how low it can go

GGeechan Cinnamon is one of the few bigger environments outside the main ones actively wo...

Astral•4/28/24, 5:15 AM

Mmm yeah. Good thing they are tbh

Astral•4/28/24, 5:15 AM

Of course you have a number of wayland supporting window managers but I find window managers a pain ngl

Geechan•4/28/24, 5:16 AM

Iirc it's only Budgie and Cosmic otherwise, not counting window managers

Astral•4/28/24, 5:17 AM

Mmm

Geechan•4/28/24, 5:17 AM

Those two DEs have eventual plans to come to Bazzite too

Astral•4/28/24, 5:17 AM

Nifty

Astral•4/28/24, 5:17 AM

GNOME is still where my heart lies but it's nice that other DE's are also picking up on Wayland

FennecTECH•4/28/24, 5:17 AM

I want LXDE back

you can't call it bloated at all

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