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They write about negligible memory overhead by KDE over XFCE, but the measurement is done on a Live image just after a fresh boot, that is, not a real use case.

They write about negligible memory overhead by KDE over XFCE, but the measurement is done on a Live image just after a fresh boot, that is, not a real use case. I would ask them to take the same measurements after like half an hour of loading all XFCE accessories and their corresponding ones on KDE. Otherwise the test wouldn't take into account the impact of loading times and caching of modules and libraries, which KDE has in much larger numbers than XFCE.

janoc 7y ago
It doesn't really matter. Ubuntu Studio is a distro tailored for multimedia production. You are not going to use that on a machine with a small amount of RAM. For comparison, I am running Mageia 7 with Plasma and after the entire day of working (C development, browser open with many tabs, e-mail ...), the machine shows 3.5GB used RAM with another 6.5GB of cache/buffers, out of 16GB of RAM. Squabbling over few hundred MB of RAM that Plasma may take extra is ridiculous when a web browser alone can take 2GB+ RAM and a large RAW format photo loaded in Gimp or Krita detto.