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Re:System76 Reportedly Developing Their Own Rust-Written Des... by spyremeown on Sunday November 07, 2021 @08:54AM (#29139454)
>I heard KDE still uses ~500MB RAM on idle

Plasma is using around 225MB right now on my machine, plus a little bit (like 2 and 6MB for session and gdm).

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Re:System76 Reportedly Developing Their Own Rust-Written Des... by moffkalast on Sunday November 07, 2021 @10:59AM (#29140512)
Interesting, my Kubuntu VM uses like 1G when idle running nothing. Not sure how much of that is plasma, but it can't be a negligible amount.
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Re:System76 Reportedly Developing Their Own Rust-Written Des... by southerntofu on Sunday November 07, 2021 @10:40AM (#29140332)
Cool. I'll be sure to give it a try!
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