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Startup is not important if you start the DE once a day, it is like saying Notepad is better then Visual Studio for coding because it starts faster. As of CPU
by simion314 9y ago
Startup is not important if you start the DE once a day, it is like saying Notepad is better then Visual Studio for coding because it starts faster.
As of CPU and memory use KDE is not the most bloated DE, This is a myth so you should recheck things with latest versions of KDE,GNOME,XFCE and the others.(use what is better for you but you should not stay away from KDE because of memory or CPU usage)
I agree that a WM will have less features and eat less memory so if you do not need the features of KDE use a WM.
Also you can disable some of KDE features like compositing, akonadi if those are the things you do not need.
- stewbrew 9y agoI think this was the test I vaguely remembered. Anyway, such a test probably doesn't really say much. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubu-1704-desktops&num=3 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubu-1704...
- simion314 9y agoInteresting,I can't find the link where I seen a benchmmark where KDE used less RAM then XFCE and Gnome3 ,it may differ for different people since Gnome is leaking memory for some people but I also seen reports of plasma leaking(it seems to be more rare) I am running an older version of KDE and my plasma uses less then 230MB in total(including shared memory)where only one instance of Chrome uses 450Mb and Xorg uses more then plasma for me (it may differ for other versions and configurations)