> would you rather see it used or see it dog slow trying to load UI components from disk? Are those the only two options? In any case the memory is technicall

> would you rather see it used or see it dog slow trying to load UI components from disk? Are those the only two options? In any case the memory is technically "used" when dog slow trying to load UI components from disk. It is just not used until that happens. Reminds me of those applications from the dialup days that would "speed up your internet" by loading every link on a page in the background in case you click one of them. In practice they often slowed down your internet by misusing your bandwidth. Despite what you imply, and despite my own expectations, in actual usage I have observed that the greater the memory requirements of a desktop environment, the laggier it is likely to be in terms of responding to my input. Perhaps it is a mistake to assume that desktop environments' increased memory usage is devoted entirely to readying UI components that would otherwise be stored on disk.