I thought Debian was as sluggish as Windows until I was forced to use the LXQt desktop environment instead of the default GNOME on an old Compaq laptop since that’s all it could handle. Turns out, GNOME looks nice but it kept my old laptop’s mid-2000s i386 CPU churning at 50% 24/7. LXQt? Barely a blip. Sure, it couldn’t run Firefox quickly, but at least its fan was silent when idling or when I was simply using the laptop as a dumb SSH client into a much more powerful remote server.
I now use LXQt on my main workstation because I don’t need fancy tilíng windows or Wayland.
I now use LXQt on my main workstation because I don’t need fancy tilíng windows or Wayland.
You can have fancy tiling windows and Wayland without Gnome! Wayland is actually pretty great for low-resource devices, I recently did a glmark benchmark on a Raspberry Pi 3B, and on the Wayland session (with the wayland version of glmark) I got about double the score of the Xorg session (with the xorg versioni of glmark). It’s just that Raspberry Pi OS’s Wayland session doesn’t use Gnome, but LabWC.
And I always configure my LXQt desktop with a tiling wm, works great and looks great IMO. Plus, the LXQt devs are working on making it fully Wayland-compatible.
I thought Debian was as sluggish as Windows until I was forced to use the LXQt desktop environment instead of the default GNOME on an old Compaq laptop since that’s all it could handle. Turns out, GNOME looks nice but it kept my old laptop’s mid-2000s i386 CPU churning at 50% 24/7. LXQt? Barely a blip. Sure, it couldn’t run Firefox quickly, but at least its fan was silent when idling or when I was simply using the laptop as a dumb SSH client into a much more powerful remote server.
I now use LXQt on my main workstation because I don’t need fancy tilíng windows or Wayland.
You can have fancy tiling windows and Wayland without Gnome! Wayland is actually pretty great for low-resource devices, I recently did a glmark benchmark on a Raspberry Pi 3B, and on the Wayland session (with the wayland version of glmark) I got about double the score of the Xorg session (with the xorg versioni of glmark). It’s just that Raspberry Pi OS’s Wayland session doesn’t use Gnome, but LabWC.
And I always configure my LXQt desktop with a tiling wm, works great and looks great IMO. Plus, the LXQt devs are working on making it fully Wayland-compatible.