Problem 1: you have a slightly old machine (512MB or 1GB of RAM) or something like a Raspberry Pi and you want a resource-efficient but modern-looking desktop.
Problem 2: you want a VM with a DE but don't want to spend too much resources in it.
Problem 3: you have a modern computer but prefer to have a lightweight DE and let the rest of the resources be used by your applications.
Both LXDE and Razor-qt consumed about 100MB of RAM, I would expect something similar from LXQt. All the other DEs are heavier, XFCE is just a bit heavier but at least for me LXQt looks a lot nicer.
And as it was pointed out, it's a merger of LXDE and Razor-qt, so it's the complete opposite of the "many Gnomes" situation. Kudos to that.
Ok, thanks for that list. I pretty much had 'xfce' as the solution there but can see the user model of Qt being a good component swap.
I'll certainly build a VM with it to try it out, but my concern is that unless it gets some sort of traction it will just sort of fizzle out as folks graduate and move on to other jobs.
They are both relatively slow, so it was reasonable to mention them both in the context of something which is useful for machines that are relatively slow.
Problem 2: you want a VM with a DE but don't want to spend too much resources in it.
Problem 3: you have a modern computer but prefer to have a lightweight DE and let the rest of the resources be used by your applications.
Both LXDE and Razor-qt consumed about 100MB of RAM, I would expect something similar from LXQt. All the other DEs are heavier, XFCE is just a bit heavier but at least for me LXQt looks a lot nicer.
And as it was pointed out, it's a merger of LXDE and Razor-qt, so it's the complete opposite of the "many Gnomes" situation. Kudos to that.