Hey all,
Have used GNU/Linux for many years. I am coming from Manjaro with the KDE Plasma desktop, which I have used for over a year (not much of a distro hopper any more).
I was reluctant to change, as Manjaro was running great for me, however recent kernel updates has made me reevaluate things. Running on older hardware with recent kernels has caused some issues for me. The biggest is the noticeable performance hit after the Meltdown patches. Everything seemed more sluggish, with slow window animations in Plasma.
Fast-forward to now; I just installed Lite 3.8 64 bit, and am so far quite happy. The only thing I really needed to to out of the box was install Compton, which got rid of the screen tearing issue with XFCE. I had to switch from F.lux to Redshift-GTK, as F.lux was not working correctly for me in Lite. There isn't much of a visual adjustment, as I was already using the Arc Dark theme in Plasma. I was using Obsidian icons, however the Faenza icons look great! Everything is running quite smooth and snappy now!
