I think those figures were collected before the switch to Qt5.junoluna wrote: Sun Dec 08, 2019 9:41 am by the way ... that screenshot a few posts back regarding DE resources is not what i am seeing with KDE .... quite the opposite
i am finding that it is considerably less resource heavy than xfce ...
Back on topic with the MX-19 live image (plus a few cosmetic tweaks) being a very well-behaved house guest under QEMU/KVM (gnome-boxes):

Both the PRIMARY and the clipboard are shared between guest & host, which makes things easier.