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I just stayed with Mate with Compiz (Ubuntu Mate) and my desktop is still as snappy as it was during Gnome 2 days. I've recently given KDE Plasma a try and was
by pantalaimon 8y ago
I just stayed with Mate with Compiz (Ubuntu Mate) and my desktop is still as snappy as it was during Gnome 2 days.
I've recently given KDE Plasma a try and was really impressed by it's speed and smoothness.
I think it shows when your desktop does not rely on interpreted langues so much.
- Vogtinator 8y agoKDE Plasma is written mostly in QML, so JavaScript.
- mih 8y agoMostly? Nope, just the UI elements. Much of the heavy lifting is done by KDE framework and Qt libraries (C++).
- mcdevilkiller 8y agoAFAIK it gets compiled AOT to C++ code. Technically, should be pretty fast out of the box.