Tue, 25 Feb 2020 16:29:58 +0100 - al3xu5 / dotcommon <dotcommon@???>:

> I am using Devuan (2.1) + MATE DE since 08/2016...
> Now I wish to change DE but I am in doubt: XFCE or LXDE or LXQt???

> Please, based on your experience and knowledge of Devuan and DEs, can
> you help me in choosing (avoiding me to invest too much time doing long
> experiments)?
>
> Consider that I mainly use office applications (libreoffice), realtime audio
> (rec, play, editing) jack + alsa (no pulseaudio), graphical editing with icc
> color management (mainly gimp and inkscape), scripting (mainly bash, html +
> css + php ), virtualization with qemu-kvm and virt-manager ... and I would
> like a de that has the least dependencies but also remains stable and
> "comfortable" in configuration, personalization and use...


After successfully upgrading to Beowulf, and after carefully evaluating all the
opinions and considerations received (thanks to everyone), I did some
experiments... and finally migrated from MATE to LXDE.

I am really very happy with the result. I have all the applications and
features I need; there are far fewer dependencies; the use of system memory is
less; the system is stable and much more responsive; the performance with
qemu-kvm virtualization is excellent...

System configuration and customization turned out to be less difficult and
demanding than I thought.

In short, a great general improvement.

I still have some doubts if LXQt could be a better choice.

Thanks again for your support
Regards


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