[kwlug-disc] KDE, XFCE, ...etc.

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

In another thread:

On 7/18/17, B.S. <bs27975.2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> As Khalid has noted ... KDE is ... heavy.

The main reason was not that KDE is heavy, but that KDE in 16.04 has
scaled back on features
I am used to. One was notifications have no history anymore. Another
was no way to get back
a weather widget.

So, since KDE is no longer providing stuff that I was used to for 15
or more years, it was time
to go for a lighter environment. In my case it is XFCE.

> Done some experimenting with
> lxqt, myself. Including, strange, I know, lxqt with kwin. Which enhances
> staying with konqueror, kdevelop, konsole (especially), even. Having
> played with lxqt this way ... it's tough to advocate non-KDE once plasma
> is neuteured, let alone akonadi. So in a sense ... never mind.
>
> [Khalid, did you investigate lxqt at all, in your non-KDE forays?]

No, I did not.

I just went to Xubuntu since it is more widely used than the alternatives.