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Re:Gnome is still the best Linux desktop environment by bittermang on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @06:23AM (#14956274)
200 currently. But I have 16gb. And I like how it looks and works. Jiggily windows when I move them. A centering crosshair when moving windows. The way they'll shuffle behind and in front of each other with a cute and quick animation when changing focus. All plugins you can choose to use or not, and even tweak.

And to "SmellyGeekBoy"s point: that's the thing that makes Linux so Linux-y. I can choose that. Or not. Or a raw command line only. Or have Plasma, Neon, Gnome, Cinnamon, LXDE, Lubuntu Next, and XFCE all installed AT THE SAME TIME. It's what you want. It's what you like. It's YOUR machine. Your desktop environment. You choose and tweak the one that suits you. No one should be able to hate or discriminate against that, it's not their desktop. So fuck'em.

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Re:Gnome is still the best Linux desktop environment by hd4 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @11:05AM (#14958523)
Did you need to make any changes to get it to 200mb? If I can get it to that point, I would switch from Ubuntu. (Ubuntu takes about 750mb~ starting)

Every time I've tried KDE recently, the starting RAM usage is closer to 800-900mb and it anecdotally felt laggier than Unity. (I tried KDE Neon)

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Re:Gnome is still the best Linux desktop environment by bittermang on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @07:13PM (#14963882)
Not that I'm aware of. I'll typically start with Ubuntu Server and add a DE to it, but this time I did a clean Kubuntu install. I'm looking at my resource monitor right now and it's been sitting around 200 all day for Plasma. Perhaps if you add up all the rest of the KDE background services like KDE Connect, klauncher, etc, you'll have a grand total above 300. But I have the hardware, so I don't mind.
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