Today, August 12, 2016, Lubuntu Linux maintainer Simon Quigley announced something that many of you have expected for so long, the migration of the lightweight Ubuntu flavor to the modern LXQt desktop environment.
LXQt is a variant of the old-school LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) user interface for GNU/Linux operating systems based on the latest Qt technologies, not GTK+ like LXDE currently is. Some say that LXQt will replace LXDE at some point in time, so it’s better for distributions that use LXDE to move to LXQt as soon as possible.
“The Lubuntu team is ready to begin the migration process to LXQt, and one of the first parts of the migration is getting an image to move to. We have prepared the lubuntu-qt-desktop metapackage and we are ready for an image,” says Simon Quigley on behalf of the Lubuntu team.
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