Will i3 improve my situation?

Hello I run qubes in a machine with only 8gb ram and 8gb swap I assume ( i did the standard procedure for installation so I am not sure about swap )
Will running i3 instead of XFCE improve the performance of qubes ? Is there anything I can do to get maximum performance out of my hardware? I just need to get work done nothing very intensive

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I doubt it. I’d not auto start qubes you aren’t using (sys-whonix, sys-usb) and try lowering the memory settings for sys-firewall and other qubes you start

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To lower the memory usage by the qubes, you can use minimal templates:

And Mirage-firewall for sys-firewall:

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Provide detailed hardware specifications.