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…...