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Re:Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my ... by Zababa on Sunday July 11, 2021 @12:30AM (#27798489)
This site asks for 1.5 Go of ram https://ubuntugnome.org/, Ubuntu 20.04 asks for 4 Go of ram. Compared to the 30 Mo for IceWM in the article (apple to oranges, I know, but still 3 orders of magnitude), or the 300 Mo for KDE. The author also notes that since XFCE switched to GTK3 they use more resources. That seems to be plenty of basis in reality. Perhaps you mean something else by "resource intensive"?
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Re:Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my ... by csande17 on Sunday July 11, 2021 @04:11AM (#27799207)
Keep in mind that the 1.5 GB number is the total amount of RAM you need to have a good time using the operating system, not the amount consumed by the window manager alone. Even OP consumes just about a gigabyte of RAM with all the programs on their Raspberry Pi.

That's not to say GNOME _isn't_ resource intensive -- it is, especially when compared to desktop environments that were either written to be lightweight or written 30 years ago -- that just isn't the best way to measure it.

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Re:Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my ... by Zababa on Sunday July 11, 2021 @05:39AM (#27799560)
> Keep in mind that the 1.5 GB number is the total amount of RAM you need to have a good time using the operating system, not the amount consumed by the window manager alone.

That's why I said apples to oranges initially, but you're right, I could have clarified that part.

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Re:Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my ... by alisonkisk on Sunday July 11, 2021 @07:19AM (#27799967)
What's Go and Mo?
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Re:Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my ... by Narishma on Sunday July 11, 2021 @10:12AM (#27800965)
Gigaoctet and Megaoctet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octet_(computing)

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Re:Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my ... by jejones3141 on Sunday July 11, 2021 @03:22PM (#27803861)
o = "octet" (byte), so Go = gigabyte, Mo = megabyte.
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