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blaze:
I would like to check out a Debian (or possibly Ubuntu) based LXQt distro. Any suggestions? Is there any that is dedicated solely to LXQt? 

Or should I just add it to a straight Debian desktop? I do not know much about LXQt, but would like to get to know it. Simple as that. :)

Dan:
https://intialonso.github.io/

This is an Ubuntu based distro. I tried it live, and it was nice. Not sure about an actual install on hardware though.

http://www.extix.se/

Ubuntu/Debian based...never tried it though.

http://en.rosalinux.com/downloads/

Rosa Linux...not sure if it's Ubuntu or Debian based. They use their own PPAs. I tried the Lxqt version live, and it seemed nice. Their Rosa Image Burner is a great tool for people who aren't comfortable with the dd command.

The only Debian distro that I know that offers Lxqt is SparkyLinux...it uses Debian Testing.

http://sparkylinux.org/download/

Like you mentioned, I did install Lxqt on Debian before. I can't remember the details though. I do remember the font rendering was pretty bad, and my font configuration file didn't help for some reason...the Qt-ism I guess, but I'm not sure, and I didn't take the time to try and figure it out. Sorry.

blaze:
Thank you very much for your suggestions Dan, appreciate it. Now I got something to start with. Sparky looks like the most interesting of them here right now, but will do some clicking and reading when time and life permits it during the next week. Will probably also do a live and or Virtualbox of the one I find most interesting. So I can get a closer look of what is heading towards us. :)

blaze:
This is just a short resume. Ok this is what happened, and not  ;D Downloaded both Debian stable and testing netinstall. Plus Sparky LXQt. First I tried to install Debian testing into Virtualbox, it started but ended just up with a very black screen after having chosen install method. This was with the latest test release of the Debian installer, and maybe there are some stuff to be sorted out with Vitrualbox. I did not care to investigate this further.

So I did install stable instead, with just the basics, upgraded it to unstable  and added LXQt. Quite KDEish looking, and in dire need of a massive dose of cosmetical configurations in my opinion. I just wanted to get out of there.  :o

Then I continued with Sparky LXQt. The iso were 1.2GB so it comes with a certain amount of "extra" stuff that you probably will never need. One thing though that I find ridiculous is that it comes with "wine"in the default install!!! I just do not get it. If a Linux user needs or wants it, it is just an apt-get away. Well that`s me. :)

In general I think that Sparky LXQt is quite an impresssive piece of work. Well worth a try for anynoe wanting to check out LXQt. The downside is probably that since it is based on testing one just have to be prepared for trouble due to LXQt being under heavy development. After the obligatory dist-upgrade it ended up very borked. ;D

The design is very modern. Colors, themes, icons are all very now. A good integration with OpenBox, except that some of the pipe menus in the OpenBox menu did not work. The conclusion is that while LXQt might be ready for the masses, I am probably not redy for LXQt. :)

Dan:
I really enjoyed reading your review(s) blaze!  ;D

...and I have to say that I agree with every iota of it.  8)

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