Why many distros have abandoned lxde or changed for lxqt?

[Rex Bouwense]

You can install lxde on virtually any distro. I believe what the conversation has morphed into is which distros offer the lxde as a default download and Ubuntu no longer does that. However, as you have correctly stated it is in their repositories and can be downloaded.

[edward]

Yes, LXDE is available with Ubuntu, install using Synaptic or via command line.

[peebee]

Puppy Linux has both LXDE editions and LXDE addons.....

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewforum.php?f=121
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lxpup/ ... LXDE-ydrv/

[wandrien]

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.

Hi!

Unfortunately, the LXDE development has stalled. The latest commit dates in the repos on Github:

• lxpanel: Mar 4, 2021
• lxappearance: May 18, 2022
• pcmanfm: Mar 4, 2021
• lxsession: Apr 20, 2021
• libfm: Feb 6, 2021
• lxterminal: Dec 4, 2021
• gpicview: Mar 5, 2021

There seems to be a quite lot of bug reports, patches and pull requests to review there, but nobody have any time or desire to get into it.

I sent emails to a couple of LXDE developers several days ago, but have no response yet. I hope to get in touch to someone who has admin access to the repos to consider adding my github profile to the project.

I am familiar with the code base of some LXDE parts and I could get busy reviewing and merging patches as well as preparing bug-fix releases.

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.

I have two laptops that is about 10 or 11 years old too. The CPUs are Core i5-2450M and Core i7-4700MQ. I've been running Arch Linux for more than 10 years on this hardware, and it works blazing fast here. The DE is basically LXDE with some parts replaced with my custom heavily patched versions. This hardware is capable of running without noticeable slowdown the modern versions of XFCE, KDE and GNOME as well, but I am completely satisfied with my custom setup that works fine for many years and see no reason for switching to another DE. I also have two more desktop computers with older and slower CPUs (such as Pentium D-935), and LXDE is the only possible option there.

[donchriscoe]

I just did a search on Distrowatch for both Lxde and Lxqt and the results are:

34 distros use Lxde

35 distros use Lxqt

At this point I would not say Lxqt is blowing away Lxde: A mere one difference.