It's beautiful. Plus FOSS services let's go!
I use Firefox with arkenfox's user.js on my laptop. For android I use bromite, and update it via F-Droid.
In a way I did say if he wants something "lighter" than XFCE. I should have said "You have to start with something like XFCE, gnome, etc. Just to get your the general feel of linux" Then if you wanted something lighter you can try dwm.
He can easily install dwm, or any other wm and choose it from his log-in page. If he doesn't like it he logs out and chooses another ones that suits him well.
If you still want something lighter than XFCE you can try a window manager like dwm. It's really light and you can customize the entire things by modifying the source code. If you just wanna customize simple things (color, font, key binds, etc.) you can edit a neat little file called config.h
Hope this helps!
- newsboat for RSS feeds
- mpd for music playback
- python-mutagen for tagging audio files
- keepassxc for password managment
- dunst for notifications
- maim for taking screenshots on X, and [grim[() for Wayland. Also a bunch of neat little scripts like record-with-ffmpeg.
nice bar
So minimal it scratches my brain.
I Just noticed that the latest release is in 2022.... Mull seems like a pretty good browser though. Thanks for the recommendation!