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Current Kubuntu with Plasma is anything but lightweight. There's really lightweight alternatives like Lubuntu and Xubuntu. You can give them a spin in a VM. If
by gcp 10y ago
Current Kubuntu with Plasma is anything but lightweight.
There's really lightweight alternatives like Lubuntu and Xubuntu. You can give them a spin in a VM. If Linux for you mostly means a browser window and a few terminals, they'll do fine.
- noir_lord 10y agoThat undersells Xubuntu which is a full DE and very similar to GNOME 2, if you just want a classic stays out the way desktop then Xububtu is excellent.
- Zardoz84 10y agoCommon! Stop these old black legend about KDE being heavy weight! I saw it running soft and fast even without 2d/3d acceleration!
- seba_dos1 10y agoI don't know what they do, but Kubuntu does seem to be a bit heavy compared to Plasma 5 on other distributions. I seem to recall KDE devs calling out Kubuntu for its poor KDE integration.
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- gcp 10y agoTell me, why do I need TWO kwallet daemons? Why do I need to disable a filesystem indexer by default that slows the system to a crawl?
- Sylos 10y ago> Why do I need to disable a filesystem indexer by default that slows the system to a crawl? As far as I'm aware, that's considered a thing of the past. I haven't seen it recommended for any recent version anywhere and at least for me, it runs perfectly fine without disabling it. I also only have one kwallet daemon running right now. That's on Plasma 5.8.
- gcp 10y agoI think Ubuntu 16.04 is on Plasma 5.7 or older. (That's where I experienced this).
- reitanqild 10y agoMy rule of thumb: don't use Kubuntu, use some other KDE distro ( used to be mandrake/mandriva, now possible OpenSuse or Arch or something, I don't follow it too closely ATM.)
- Sylos 10y agoTo be fair, in comparison to most other DEs, it is still rather heavyweight. Definitely more heavyweight than LXDE and Xfce, and Unity is pretty well-optimised at this point, too. But yeah, for what KDE is capable off, especially in comparison to GNOME or the Windows-world, it's actually incredibly lightweight. I run it on a 4 year old mid-range laptop with 4 GB of RAM, Intel HD Graphics 4000, and as long as my system isn't under heavy load, it's buttery smooth, even with many of the bells and whistles enabled.
- skykooler 10y agoI used to run Kubuntu (with KDE 4) on an old Yakumo laptop, with 384 megs of RAM and a 600 MHz Celeron. Ran very smoothly. Coudn't have more than 2 apps open at a time, though. (And even that was sometimes pushing it.)
- allendoerfer 10y ago> I run it on a 4 year old mid-range laptop with 4 GB of RAM, Intel HD Graphics 4000, and as long as my system isn't under heavy load, it's buttery smooth, even with many of the bells and whistles enabled. It is a desktop environment, not a 3D game. It should ALWAYS be buttery smooth. You can run a desktop environment on a 20 year old machine.