I've mostly been a GTK fanboy and usually don't like the look and feel of Qt apps and desktop environments, mostly KDE. It's hard to explain. They often look kind of overloaded to me.

But this is very nice. Reminds me of Gnome 2 a little, and it's probably very fast.

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Bit the bullet early and decided to just move for good to a Qt environment (LXQt) since I was already building on practically nothing with IceWM. Not a huge fan of GTK's direction in the last few years and been looking to move to Qt for a long time anyway. Finally got the system set up for good and working on tweaking together a theme as I go. Long live Qt

Quoting: sourpuzI've mostly been a GTK fanboy and usually don't like the look and feel of Qt apps and desktop environments, mostly KDE. It's hard to explain. They often look kind of overloaded to me.

But this is very nice. Reminds me of Gnome 2 a little, and it's probably very fast.

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Bit the bullet early and decided to just move for good to a Qt environment (LXQt) since I was already building on practically nothing with IceWM. Not a huge fan of GTK's direction in the last few years and been looking to move to Qt for a long time anyway. Finally got the system set up for good and working on tweaking together a theme as I go. Long live Qt

I just dislike how GTK has been moving more and more to a GNOME-only toolkit and having things removed from it constantly. It's really been becoming a major pain in some aspects for alternative GTK based desktops like Xfce/MATE/Cinnamon. I honestly dont see much of a future for GTK based desktops that arent GNOME anymore. Qt at least seems like it wants to stay desktop agnostic. It is also very fast and uses far less resources comparably than GTK from what I've seen.

I totally agree. If you're using Gnome itself, you're fine, but they're really hurting other GTK based desktops. Mint had to downgrade some of the bundled apps for their new release, as the current versions only play nice with libadwaita.

I like to use XFCE on older hardware, and it's quite noticeable.

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Quoting: sourpuzI've mostly been a GTK fanboy and usually don't like the look and feel of Qt apps and desktop environments, mostly KDE. It's hard to explain. They often look kind of overloaded to me.

But this is very nice. Reminds me of Gnome 2 a little, and it's probably very fast.

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Bit the bullet early and decided to just move for good to a Qt environment (LXQt) since I was already building on practically nothing with IceWM. Not a huge fan of GTK's direction in the last few years and been looking to move to Qt for a long time anyway. Finally got the system set up for good and working on tweaking together a theme as I go. Long live Qt

I just dislike how GTK has been moving more and more to a GNOME-only toolkit and having things removed from it constantly. It's really been becoming a major pain in some aspects for alternative GTK based desktops like Xfce/MATE/Cinnamon. I honestly dont see much of a future for GTK based desktops that arent GNOME anymore. Qt at least seems like it wants to stay desktop agnostic. It is also very fast and uses far less resources comparably than GTK from what I've seen.

No, I did not forget about August:

I'm still rolling. I'm loving openSUSE Tumbleweed!

Nor September:

tried out windowmaker on my thinkpad while dicking around with slackware, liked it enough to try it on my main Arch rig. without going too deep into customization i believe i've got it in a good spot, how's this?
(trying to cover up the crusty jpeg wallpaper here, lol)


Nothing too fancy as I spent most of the time tweaking my shortcuts to match TDE and getting some essential dockapps working, perhaps I will make my own theme tomorrow

Last edited by bonkmaykr on 25 September 2024 at 10:25 am UTC

I've dusted off my 1st gen Ryzen system this week. Hard to believe it's been over 7 years already since this chip came out.

Quoting: Avehicle7887I've dusted off my 1st gen Ryzen system this week. Hard to believe it's been over 7 years already since this chip came out.

I see you "old" Ryzen 1700X and show you my still actively in use 11 years old 3rd Gen Intel Laptop



Uptime 34 seconds I know I just booted it up for this screenshot :D

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