MX > stock
The point is that LXQT and LXDE use half as much ram as Xfce. I'm not saying OP should use KDE.
It's about 300mb lighter than KDE in my experiences. On 2gb of RAM, that makes a difference.
And both LXDE and LXQT use half as much RAM as Xfce.
LXDE is gonna be fine too; but it lacks a lot of the polish that XFCE has. I honestly like both for different things.
I'd rather be able to open more than 5 tabs than have a fancy UI. That's why Xfce is on my newer devices, and I install those 2 whenever someone needs an ancient laptop revived.
Just install a few of them, see what works, how much resources they use up, and what allows you to open more than one browser tab. Hell do it in a VM, Arco-B has a wide range of DE's to choose from in the installer.
From my experience it's barely lighter than KDE. LXQT/LXDE destroy it in every benchmark and in every test I've tried.
Terminal velocity is the maximum speed attainable by an object as it falls through a fluid (air is the most common example). It is reached when the sum of the drag force (Fd) and the buoyancy is equal to the downward force of gravity (FG) acting on the object. Since the net force on the object is zero, the object has zero acceleration
Objects in a vacuum have no drag and no terminal velocity...
How would it reach terminal velocity in a vacuum?
So why should we use this instead of just saying lixmaballs and using nix/aux/nux/whatever other fork?
Dude still hasn't decided where to host the repo. It's not an alternative, guix is...
Wait a bit Ubuntu is next. They already added terminal ads, embedded affiliate links for amazon, and sold user data to amazon.
sysVinit is only the default, it comes with systemd as well.
The tools are useful no matter the init system, and make life easier, especially for beginners.
In essence MX is just Debian with tools to make desktop use easier.