use DE then doesn't matter which it's all the same if you come from windows or familiar with windows environment and want it to be like windows you can try KDE, cinnamon for the lightweight LXDE/QT, xfce
and if you come from mac you can try gnome, budgie, deepin it had similarities but different there is no lightweight one for this kind of desktop i believe gnome is hit or miss
or early linux de that doesn't look like any OSes you can try gnome2 or mate both are very lightweight
want more lighter? don't like all DE? try fvwm or openbox it's ugly but functional and you can customize it on how do you like (require lot of configuration)
or try it all so you will know which one is suitable for your like
Which desktop?
Aiden Moore
Noah Baker
settled on xfce. has a dock lol. and lightweight.
Jackson Morris
Brandon Green
Christopher Morgan
LXQT is nice, it sits between KDE and Xfce.
Cooper Thomas
"sits between"
looks or ram usage?
resources are important to me.
i'm up and running with xfce and its using 450mb idle. thats an extra Gb compared to windows and gnome.
i really liked mint but it was laggy.
i liked the dock/panel in gnome but gnome was laggy and used 1.2 Gb ram.
its a waste of ram. I have 8gb lol.
windows is very responsive. i never payed for it. used KMSpico.... didn't trust it though...
and most importantly.. you can't beat free.
also no spying cortana or other bullshit
Justin Lee
lxqt is less resource hungry than xfce but it lacks features.
between the two, i would pick xfce because it does a lot more and has better customizability.
if you use kwin with lxqt, it pulls in lots of kde libraries as dependencies, so perhaps thats what that peter was thinking of. nowadays every DE is bloat so it doesnt really matter anyways.
the dealbreaker is that you can get away with a pure gtk environment, but not vice versa, so there will always be that one gtk app that breaks your qt theming.
Asher Lee
Xfce is best for ramlets
Ian Gomez
dwm