I'm still rocking a 7 year old Samsung Chronos with 8GB RAM and KDE5 flies. There used to be a time when the real world footprint between KDE and XFCE was sign

I'm still rocking a 7 year old Samsung Chronos with 8GB RAM and KDE5 flies. There used to be a time when the real world footprint between KDE and XFCE was significant but that's not been the case in a long time. These days the footprint of your average desktop chat client has dwarfed the difference in memory usage between most of the major desktop environments. So if you're looking for places to cut corners that would be the first place I'd suggest looking.