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I'm giving Lubuntu a tryout. I forgot that I ran it on an old Thinkpad R32 back in the LXDE days.
It uses LXQt now and looks pretty nice. There's more polish than with Fedora LXQt and a slightly better app mix.
I like that Lubuntu has a community, a blog and a handbook.
Tomorrow I'll have to see how Snaps work, and I will expect the Google Chrome .deb to shit the bed just like in "full" Ubuntu. Hopefully I can sort that one out.
I really did like Fedora Xfce. That is put together very nicely, and you can get dark mode almost instantly.
In LXQt, I had trouble getting full dark mode in both Fedora and Lubuntu. I couldn't make it happen. That's ok. If I do decide to install, I'll leave it vanilla and see how I like it.
Lubuntu had a nice little text editor -- feather-something. Fedora LXQt had more of a mini-IDE. I can't remember the name of that either, but I'd like to try it again.
The panel and panel icons are a bit small in LXQt. I'm sure I can sort that out.
I ran Fedora LXQt for enough time to experiment with window font sizes and colors. I'm sure it looked worse than when I started.
I would stick with Xfce or GNOME, but my current working theory is that someone in GTK-world is causing my intermittent suspend/resume and shutdown issue, and maybe Qt "solves" that problem.
@passthejoe I've been using Xubuntu and later Mint XFCE Edition for ages. It's weird, XFCE just feels right. Especially once you disable clientside decoration and install the MATE versions of the apps to get the menu bars back.
I love the Mousepad text editor for when I can't be bothered to spin up vscode or neovim.
@philpem I'm very comfortable with Xfce, which is what I run in OpenBSD
@passthejoe Featherpad! It's one of my favorite little Qt apps that doesn't depend on the entire KDE stack. I typically will install it when I'm not using Xfce (and hence Mousepad); the year plus I spent using OpenBSD and cwm as my daily driver I used Featherpad all the time.
@passthejoe snaps are such a distraction. I understand pursuing different tech stacks in FOSS (and I LIKED Unity and Upstart) but forcing snaps on users in graphical apps is an odd choice.
I should try a current release without prejudice. After all, I never thought I’d be happy running immutable Fedora.