KDE or XFCE for me?

[sradjoker]

I agree with all of this. Especially on the Pi, KDE experience is not as good because it is running on a uSD card.

Comparing Performance of Lightweight DEs

Over the past few days, I did several test installs of Lightweight DEs on the Raspberry Pi to find what resources the DE consumes and how the experience of the DE is on the Raspberry Pi 4b that I own. This exercise is inspired by the discussion I had with @pudge and @keybreak a few days ago. Performance Metrics The table below shows a comparison of the resources in terms of RAM and Disk Space out of the box along with the Boot time. Criteria KDE LXQt with OB Openbox LXQt/KWin Enlightenm…