Re:Progress on Plasma
by laumars on Sunday May 10, 2020 @02:49PM
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I'm still rocking a 7 year old Samsung Chronos with 8GB RAM and KDE5 flies.
There used to be a time when the real world footprint between KDE and XFCE was significant but that's not been the case in a long time.
These days the footprint of your average desktop chat client has dwarfed the difference in memory usage between most of the major desktop environments. So if you're looking for places to cut corners that would be the first place I'd suggest looking.
Re:Progress on Plasma
by brnt on Sunday May 10, 2020 @04:29PM
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I'm using KDE (Kubuntu 20.04) on four laptops turning 10 this year. They are AMDs first gen APU, so they were nothing fancy when they came out. KDE runs just fine, with animations. Main thing to upgrade was an SSD for a really speedy setup.
There used to be a time when the real world footprint between KDE and XFCE was significant but that's not been the case in a long time.
These days the footprint of your average desktop chat client has dwarfed the difference in memory usage between most of the major desktop environments. So if you're looking for places to cut corners that would be the first place I'd suggest looking.