A KDE desktop has about the same resource consumption as XFCE but with lots more features/maintainers. And there exists a KDE win95ish theme: https://www.opend

A KDE desktop has about the same resource consumption as XFCE but with lots more features/maintainers. And there exists a KDE win95ish theme: https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1253201 https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1253201 With the Redmond or Chicago95 theme for GTK, those apps also look in place in case you need them. For truly a low resource usage desktop I look at LXQt. Same base lib as KDE, namely Qt, which is apparently a lot lighter on the resources than GTK. Not sure if it is ready yet these days.