Every desktop environment is a massive memory hog. Do you really want something minimal like xfce on a touchscreen?

SXMO is pretty minimal in that regard, but it doesn't force you to use the touchscreen. Can also navigate through menus via the volume buttons...

	▲	gf000 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Even that will be a massive energy vampire compared to android, that had top notch engineers working on it for close to 2 decades...

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tim-projects an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I've been using openbox for over a decade. That's completely false. Xfce is not a memory hog. And it's not minimal either it's fully functional.

Gnome is a bloated mess of a thing and I hate it. Why would anyone want their desktop to use over 1gb of ram. I have a 32gb laptop and I still loath the idea of throwing away memory on such a bloated awful thing.

Running gnome on a phone. Yeah... No

	▲	ChocolateGod 39 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It doesn't run GNOME Shell, which is the main memory hog of GNOME. It uses some GNOME services, namely so it doesn't have to invent it's own. None of these services are memory heavy and all have a purpose (e.g. managing Bluetooth)
	▲	Striving7340 36 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Phosh is not based on gnome-shell and nobody cares if you want to run openbox on your phone.