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>high-bloat desktop environments like KDE Which KDE is that and how exactly is it "high bloat"? Definitely not Plasma. Modern KDE is very resource efficient,
by ChuckNorris89 5y ago
>high-bloat desktop environments like KDE
Which KDE is that and how exactly is it "high bloat"?
Definitely not Plasma. Modern KDE is very resource efficient, even giving XFCE a run for its money.
- smoldesu 5y agoI mean, I use KDE Plasma on many of my devices. I'm pretty familiar with it's resource footprint, and while it's certainly better than it used to be, it's still on the high-end of resource usage when compared with it's contemporaries. It's gotten much better at memory management, but there's a considerable amount of latency and cruft surrounding the menus and dialogues the system uses. On every system I've ever used, krunner takes ~600ms to boot launch, menus have a good 200ms of lead-time and activity switching can be 1500ms+ on the right configuration. XFCE still feels faster to me, but maybe it's a hardware thing.
- ChuckNorris89 5y agoHow did you measure all these latencies? Anecdotally , KDE on my OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is pretty fast on both new Ryzen and very old Intel laptops. Maybe something is wrong/buggy on your setup.
- WhatIsDukkha 5y agoEh? You have something wrong. 4-5 desktops/laptops with wide variety of profiles and I don't see any of that latency. Turn off animations.