I couldn’t resist the urge to revisit the LXQt ISO after the announcement of the official LXQt 1.0 a couple of days ago.
As an experiment - with an opinion - I have stripped the ISO profile down using only the free drivers and I have removed most applications leaving only Firefox as the webbrowser. I have been trying to create a functional ISO with the minimal required packages - do not think of this as minimal or slim og lightweight as being low on memory - it is the number of packages I have cut down upon.
firewalld is default enabled - that is one service I have opted to default activate.
I just checked on a 2016 Acer laptop Celeron N3350 with 4GB RAM - htop says around 450MB that’s how it is.
Only the free drivers is included and there is no grub item for booting non-free. IF you need nvidia driver - please use mhwd after you successfully installed this system.
I have tweaked the settings - they don’t match any packages - you will have to manually tweak the settings - to match the ISO - unless you are among the select few which can install from ISO to USB
The easy way is to simply copy the folder /etc/skel from the ISO to your installaton /etc/skel
@linux-aarhus I’m downloading your setup and will play around with it some. Thank you for doing the respin. Is there anywhere I should provide feedback (assuming you want/need some…).
It installed nicely, runs quite quickly (is fast). It seems to use a bit more memory (200MB) than the version I installed from unstable on my xfce desktop. Perhaps memory difference is due to the difference of using LXQT with openbox. Anyway, it is very nice.
Possibly - I have no preferences - I was just trying to create the most minimal functional combo I could think of - the minimal is not memory wise - it is the number of packages I have cut down upon.
firewalld is default enabled - that is one service I have opted to default activate.
I just checked on a 5y old Acer laptop Celeron N3350 with 4GB RAM - htop says around 450MB that’s probably how it is.
The whole memory things get to be a weird discussion no matter what. My machine has 24GB of RAM and uses a gen 10 intel i5 but is running your LXQT off of a USB.
I’m pretty certain when I installed LXQT on that machine (co-resident with manjaor xfce4), I used KWIN not OB.
In truth though, none of this detracts from your excellent effort.
Just gave it a whirl never tried lxqt before only lxde. It’s nice, still getting used to it as I’ve pretty much been using gtk desktops ever since switching to Linux.
I am very happy to see lxqt is still in development, I have always really appreciated this DE, simple sober but very effective and solid
Thanks for sharing your iso I installed on gnome-boxes
that’s how it is.
that’s probably how it is.
