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KDE is definitely not bloated in any way for the amount of features and capabilities it brings out of the box. Everything you need to get to work is already bui
by ChuckNorris89 4y ago
KDE is definitely not bloated in any way for the amount of features and capabilities it brings out of the box. Everything you need to get to work is already built in, no extra add-ons or extensions are needed, even for power users.
My Opensuse Tumbleweed KDE idles at ~700MB RAM usage so I have no idea what the author's Fedora does with KDE that it idles at 1.4GB RAM.
I mean, I definitely expect differences between distros, but 2x the RAM usage feels really strange. There's either a bug/memory leak, or several apps are cached or running in the background.
I feel for such comparisons, it would be also fair to list the "ps -aux" for each DE somewhere so that readers can dig a bit deeper into the results if they want and see what exaclty is running
- Vogtinator 4y agoMaybe Fedora starts akonadi by default or something...
- tmtvl 4y agoI think OpenSUSE does something with KDE, because the author also mentions the Wayland session crashing every other time and I'm just using Plasma Wayland as my daily driver now as it has reached a point where it's perfectly usable, even with 2 monitors.
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoExactly and that's my main beef with these DE comparisons. DEs don't exist in a vacuum but depend on which bistro they run on, and how well they're integrated in that particular distro as this affects stability and resources consumption. I suspect if we were to tests all these DEs on Arch or OpenSUSE, some of these results would look completely different, at least for the major "gass-guzzers" like GNOME and KDE, so IMHO, the jury is still out on them. Still, I appreciate that the author has gone through this effort for these tests.