On 4/10/25 2:56 PM, William Morder via tde-users wrote:
And that led to this reddit page: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/kb0cp6/i_compared_the_ram_... https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/kb0cp6/i_compared_the_ram_...
There you can see how Trinity compares favorably to the very light desktops.
I too saw that reddit thread. :) The OP seems to have used some kind of averaging to obtain the final results. An improvement over wearing cool sunglasses, launching a VM, and reporting initial memory usage.
The results do not apply some kind of objective measure to snappiness and responsiveness outside of subjective perception, but a helpful start.
In the so-called lightweight territory, LXQt does not provide its own window manager, depending instead on other window managers. Overall there is a dearth of native LXQt tools like TDE provides. To be fair to the LXQt devs, they focus only on the desktop, presuming users will adopt other Qt5 apps for a full system. I think in the end LXQt requires pulling in a lot of KDE tools to become useful.
I know little about Lumina other than being ported from BSD. Interesting considering the general lack of desktop focus in the BSD world.