![]() ![]() ![]() LXQT is available to install from the official repositories for most Linux distributions. Linux distributions that provide a version with LXQt as default desktop include Lubuntu, LXQt spin of Fedora Linux, Manjaro LXQt edition, SparkyLinux LXQt, while other distributions like Debian and openSUSE provide it as an alternative desktop environment during installation. $ sudo dnf install lxde Īs we said above, LXQT is the official Qt port right now from the LXDE project, LXQT developers define it as “ The next generation of the Lightweight Desktop Environment“, it is very customizable as it was written in the Qt library, but it still under heavy development. LXDE is available to install from the official repositories for most Linux distributions. ![]() There was a Qt port under development from the LXDE desktop which aims to rewrite all LXDE components in the Qt library, it was called “ LXDE-Qt“, later, another lightweight desktop “ Razor-qt” was launched in order to provide a new GUI for low-resources computers written in the Qt library, these 2 projects have been merged together since they have the same goal under the “ LXQT” project, but, eventually, dropped and all efforts focused on the Qt port. Written in the C language with the GTK+ library, LXDE is a very good desktop environment to run on old computers, it is a component of many tools like PCManFM (File Manager), LXDM (X Display Manager), and many other components. One of the most famous lightweight GUIs over there, LXDE ( Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) was first released in 2006, it was programmed to work on Unix-like platforms like Linux & FreeBSD, LXDE is the default GUI for many Linux distributions like Lubuntu, Knoppix, LXLE Linux, Artix, and Peppermint Linux OS – among others. In this article, we are going to talk about lightweight linux desktop environments to install on your old computer to revive it again. Many of us own old computers, and old computers need low resources-constrained GUI’s to be used on them.
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