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If the desktop environment is consuming all the RAM to eek out a bit of extra performance, then it's not available for the applications to do the same.
by thfuran 4y ago
If the desktop environment is consuming all the RAM to eek out a bit of extra performance, then it's not available for the applications to do the same.
- Matl 4y agoOk, so to be precise I did not mean to imply a DE should be a resource hog, leak memory all over the place etc. I simply meant to say that a diff of few tens or even hundreds of MBs of RAM between DEs is realistically insignificant for most people.