Siduction LXQT Zorin 9
DISTROHOPPER DISTROHOPPER We’ve tapped GCHQ’s communications to find out what’s going on in distro land. Siduction LXQT Showcasing a new desktop. any, many words have been written about the shift from MGnome 2 to Gnome 3, and we won’t add more here. However, as well as the desktop shifting, the GTK toolkit also shifted, and a lot of other desktop environments relied on that GTK 2. LXDE was one of those environments, and they weren’t happy with the direction GTK 3 was taking, so the developers have decided to make a clean break and switch to the Qt toolkit that’s most famously used in KDE. This new desktop environment, known as LXQT, is still in development, so not many distros have included it yet, but Siduction has. At first it feels a little strange, because Siduction was also one of the first distros to feature Razor-qt, another Qt-based desktop. some parts are reminiscent of KDE, such as the control centre and the notifications area. cashew, and none of the KDE apps are browser. Despite the new toolkit, it still However, on the whole, it’s a very different included. PCManFM is still the file manager retains the no-nonsense feel of LXDE, and desktop environment. There’s far less eye (like the desktop, it’s made the transition to we suspect it will retain its popularity in candy, no glow behind the window, no QT), and Qupzilla is chosen as the web low-end desktops. Zorin 9 Can Zorin 9 help Linux attract new users from Windows? orin pitches itself as the gateway to probably is, but that mantra isn’t central to Linux, a tagline that sums up its goal Linux (see http://islinuxaboutchoice.com).
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