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I want the easiest to configure/theme wm and one that comes with sane defaults. Also I currently use cinnamon, and I'm not sure how to escape from that(everything in it is just so nice) but I want the speed of a wm

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you want sane defaults, try lxqt. It is still a huge improvement in performance after cinnamon, but you don't have to manually configure everything like in WMs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How different is that from lxde?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Same design, different technologies. LXDE was dropped in favor of lxqt. In terms of performance both are almost the same, but in the future, when all of old code will be dropped from lxqt, it would be lighter. Also lxqt looks more modern compared to lxde.