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> I think any empty Qt/GTK app eats 40 MB at least. Classic GTK is (much) better (RSS on Linux): GTK2 14 MB GTK3 24 MB Once it was decided that a desktop
by kvemkon 2mo ago
> I think any empty Qt/GTK app eats 40 MB at least.
Classic GTK is (much) better (RSS on Linux):
GTK2 14 MB
GTK3 24 MB
Once it was decided that a desktop application must have fancy animation effects (like on smartphones) and be rendered completely on GPU things got very different:
GTK4 98 MB
- goalieca 2mo agoGTK used to be considered the bloated option along with QT. My first Linux box had 128MB of ram and it was screaming fast.
- Joeri 2mo agoAt one point I ran graphical linux on a 20 mb ram laptop although admittedly that was very tight. I also remember running nt4 with photoshop, word, and my IDE (borland delphi) all at the same time and comfortably in 128 mb of ram.
- inigyou 2mo agoWhat was the lean option?
- goalieca 2mo agoThere were a number of smaller libraries closer to the X11 primitives for drawing. Motif was one that i recall which powered opencde and like environments. We had used it for an industrial control system. I ended up using fluxbox as my windows manager for a while which has its own toolkit for decorating windows and drawing menus. It was quite a bit lighter than gnome and pretty much thinly wrapped XFT (fonts), and xlib for drawing, etc.