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TBane wrote: ↑Tue Aug 31, 2021 2:24 pmI don't think lxde is updated.

This simply isn't true. Please look at the first link in my signature.

kmiller10 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 25, 2021 7:58 am Today I wanted to install sparky linux lxde edition but realized that it won't be supported anymore after the current version. Looking for other distro with lxde, lubuntu changed it for lxqt, linux mint abandoned it. Is lxde not being updated?

Both Debian and Fedora offer their distros with the LXDE desktop.

https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/cu ... iso-hybrid

https://spins.fedoraproject.org/lxde

And PCLinuxOS offers LXDE in their software repositories.

LXLE is LXDE-specific and is based on Ubuntu LTS. https://lxle.net

And opensuse offers lxde

Why many distros have abandoned lxde or changed for lxqt?
I don’t know why – do you..?

Why would you want to slow down your laptop-computer by making it less efficient?
https://imgur.com/a/V6lx0kk

Lubuntu uses more than double the resource of my Antix-22 Full LXDE setup –
https://www.chippiko.com/lubuntu-vs-antix-ram
Every app needs more resource with Lubuntu - so open those listed with Lubuntu and watch the resources get sucked up.

IMHO one of the main reasons is LXQT Lubuntu and it’s Forum and all the other Distro, FOSS and Linux forums. It would seem to me that they have planted the classic Moderator + Fanboy + Groupthink to quell any positive posts and at the same time repeat verbatim the tired old mantra that LXDE is dead.
Linux org forum’s moderator is also on the official Lubuntu team yet does not declare any conflict of interest as he trashes a LXDE topic. To cover this he often coyly says he loves LXDE.
You can find him on AskUbuntu, Unix & Linux StackExchange, but hopefully not here as he spends most of his forum time online at Linux org.
Check it out for yourself…..

There again - In February 2009, Mark Shuttleworth invited the LXDE project to become a self-maintained project within the Ubuntu community, with the aim of leading to a dedicated new official Ubuntu derivative to be called Lubuntu.
Of course I am not suggesting that there is any top-down or financial aspect leading to lxqt adoption. Just like Goolag and AOSP – for sure it is all open source AFTER release but the software coding direction for the next and subsequent releases is closely directed by…...

LXDE is in development, the current version is 0.10.1.

I recently discovered an issue attempting to use some Openbox themes in LXDE and reported my findings. The issue was confirmed and a proposed patch to correct the issue, has been submitted.

My desktops are now 14 and 11 years old, the older of the two recently had the HDD replaced with a solid state drive and LXDE runs amazingly fast on both of them. With the older desktop now running on the SSD, it's now so fast, one would think it's a brand new system.

dlinux wrote: ↑Mon Dec 26, 2022 5:27 pm And opensuse offers lxde

also ubuntu 22.04 LTS offers lxde

Ubuntu (more correctly Lubuntu) moved from lxde to lxqt with the 20.04 release. The last LTS that used lxde was 18.04.

Rex Bouwense wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 2:29 pm Ubuntu (more correctly Lubuntu) moved from lxde to lxqt with the 20.04 release. The last LTS that used lxde was 18.04.

I know that lubuntu moved from lxde to lxqt. But lxde is available https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LXDE