• Eugenia
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    47 months ago

    Because it uses 250 MB of RAM on a well-optimized distro (e.g. installing it on DietPi), instead of 1.5 GB of RAM.

    • John Richard
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      17 months ago

      So does many of the GTK tools though… so, again… why use Qt at all if you want to save memory.

      • Eugenia
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        47 months ago

        We’re talking about a whole desktop environment, not “gtk tools”. Both lxde and lxqt are lightweight, and have more utilities and prefs than the standard window managers, or the old stuff, like icewm.