[Question] Since CL focus on performance, wouldn't be better to have LXQT instead of GNOME?

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I’m not an expert here, so what I’m suggesting may not actually improve the desktop distribution performance, but I’m curious, wouldn’t LXQT/LXDE offer better performance for Clear Linux?
Not sure if it will improve the OS performance in benchmarks and apps, but I think GNOME is one of the most resource heavy desktop environments, so maybe LXQT could be a better default option for performance?.

I’m well aware that the CL team is not focusing on desktop development anymore, but, at the very least I would be nice to know if having a lighter desktop environment does actually improve application performance (such as blender for example) or benchmarks would be the same.

Just for curiosity sake in case this can’t be done / is not viable because performance would be the same.

Thanks!

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https://www.phoronix.com/review/gaming-desktop-eoy2018

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Ah, I see! From now on, I will check on Phoronix for this kind of stuff first.
Thanks! Seems despite using more resources, GNOME holds good performance, it’s not as inefficient as I thought.

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The advantage is often more with RAM, instead of CPU performance.

Until a couple of years ago (avg of 2 - 4 Gb of available RAM), this was a big deal.

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