LXQt 2.0.0

This is really an amazing and underappreciated desktop environment.<p>If you&#x27;re looking to save some RAM, this ain&#x27;t it. Not because LXQt is memory hungry, but because Plasma is so damn efficient these days.<p>I use Plasma but I can really recommend the LXQt file manager PCManFM-Qt (catchy name ha?). It&#x27;s a really snappy and no nonsense file manager that feels right at home in Plasma. I prefer it over Dolphin.

With software bloat being rampant, this is a medicine.<p>Qt keeps the overhead down enormously compared to GTK-based, or even (but to a lesser extend) KDE-based (which itself is Qt-based).<p>With good Wayland support.<p>I think this is replacing XFCE as goto low resource desktop on Linux.

I have my grandparents using lxqt (on Debian). I use sway myself, but I knew they needed something familiar to their Windows XP-era customs and without any frills.<p>The only tech issue I had to debug for them in the last year was when one of the housekeepers pulled a wire while cleaning.<p>Before Debian LXQt, they were using Lubuntu 18.04 (which was still on LXDE at the time).

Don&#x27;t overlook <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lxqt&#x2F;qterminal">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lxqt&#x2F;qterminal</a> no matter your distro: I used it on Ubuntu because it was the closest I had found (thus far) to iTerm2 on Linux. I still have the lust to teach it about <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tmux&#x2F;tmux&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Control-Mode">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tmux&#x2F;tmux&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Control-Mode</a>

Qt could be much larger if the licensing terms were not 5d chess for over a decade.

Congrats to the team. I ran this for quite a while and it&#x27;s a great desktop, especially for older PCs.

I have been running LXQt for years. A really great desktop environment!

one of the best things that happens on linux DE

Looks cute.