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A NUC-sized mini PC with Q1'21 Intel Celeron ran all three DEs with no noticeable difference in speed. Perhaps there's a difference for hardcore usage but it si
by ssnistfajen 4y ago
A NUC-sized mini PC with Q1'21 Intel Celeron ran all three DEs with no noticeable difference in speed. Perhaps there's a difference for hardcore usage but it simply isn't applicable to the vast majority of use cases. So yes computers have definitely become much faster since 10 years ago that a lot of these "bloat" really aren't noticeable anymore.
- shrimp_emoji 4y agoI assert that one exception to this is compositing. Even if you're on a gaming rig with a really beefy GPU, you might not notice that DE compositing is on, but you will notice the difference once you turn it off. To test this, try dragging a window around on a high refresh rate monitor on LXDE (since that DE has no composition by default, iirc) and then on GNOME, KDE, et al. The overhead of composition extends to games as well, which is why I like KDE for being the only full-featured DE that lets you turn composition off.