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I honestly don't see why anyone would want to use this DE today. Rewind 15 years and I had a laptop with 256M RAM and would use a very bare bones tiling window

I honestly don't see why anyone would want to use this DE today. Rewind 15 years and I had a laptop with 256M RAM and would use a very bare bones tiling window manager to keep resource use down. But today my Linux system is much more close to a replacement of a Windows or Mac OS system. I'm quite happy with the resources available and the advances made in Gnome/KDE. I would never go back to using bare bones DE's or OpenMotif.

rhabarba 9y ago
Why wouldn't you still want to keep resource use down?
- INTPenis 9y ago
  I don't need to. I haven't had a need to save resources for over 5 years. I can't remember exactly when that need went away but likely it was earlier than 5 years ago. I'm just measuring the time I've had Lenovo Thinkpads which is at least 5 years. And those two thinkpads have been running Fedora with a full Gnome 3 suite without issue. In the beginning I even had local VMs but now I use my home lab for that.
  - segmondy 9y ago
    This line of thinking is why we have ridiculous bloat. I use to run servers that will have 50+ simultaneous users and these servers will have 256mb of ram. Today 256mb of ram is probably not enough for most simple apps. As a matter of fact, I was shopping for 128gb-256gb ram server yesternight. :-(
dfox 9y ago
Keep in mind that CDE is not exactly bare bones desktop environment (although in comparison to KDE/Gnoome it is not especially resource hungry). When compared to things like LXDE or Xfce which really are window managers bundled with few applications CDE is real integrated desktop environment with object model, probably only two other portable unix desktop environments are KDE and Gnome. Also, 15 years ago 256MB RAM in laptop was on the high-end side of things and 128MB was completely sufficient to run KDE/Gnome with Mozilla, Evolution and what not.

rhabarba 9y ago

Why wouldn't you still want to keep resource use down?

INTPenis 9y ago
I don't need to. I haven't had a need to save resources for over 5 years. I can't remember exactly when that need went away but likely it was earlier than 5 years ago. I'm just measuring the time I've had Lenovo Thinkpads which is at least 5 years. And those two thinkpads have been running Fedora with a full Gnome 3 suite without issue. In the beginning I even had local VMs but now I use my home lab for that.
- segmondy 9y ago
  This line of thinking is why we have ridiculous bloat. I use to run servers that will have 50+ simultaneous users and these servers will have 256mb of ram. Today 256mb of ram is probably not enough for most simple apps. As a matter of fact, I was shopping for 128gb-256gb ram server yesternight. :-(

dfox 9y ago

Keep in mind that CDE is not exactly bare bones desktop environment (although in comparison to KDE/Gnoome it is not especially resource hungry). When compared to things like LXDE or Xfce which really are window managers bundled with few applications CDE is real integrated desktop environment with object model, probably only two other portable unix desktop environments are KDE and Gnome. Also, 15 years ago 256MB RAM in laptop was on the high-end side of things and 128MB was completely sufficient to run KDE/Gnome with Mozilla, Evolution and what not.