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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Because it uses 250 MB of RAM on a well-optimized distro (e.g. installing it on DietPi), instead of 1.5 GB of RAM.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

So does many of the GTK tools though... so, again... why use Qt at all if you want to save memory.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

If you like GTK use Xfce, if you like Qt use LxQt

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

We're talking about a whole desktop environment, not "gtk tools". Both lxde and lxqt are lightweight, and have more utilities and prefs than the standard window managers, or the old stuff, like icewm.