RAM for kde4?
 

does kde3.5 differ much in memory requirements from kde4?

i'm running kde4 on an old thinkpad with 256mb ram and everything is a little slow...

rK

KDE4 does require slightly more memory. What you can do is go to system settings and disable strigi and nepomuk.

what do strigi and nepomuk do? nothing essential, i guess...

http://nepomuk.kde.org/
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=40889

256MB is on the small side for any full on GUI. You could try a lightweight gui like xfce, but if you can get more RAM, I would.

woohoo! I bought 512mb and everything flies! Now I have 767mb and when i click on a different desktop it just pops up! Imagine that!


rK

As suggested before, try xfce - it will really speed it up:)

I've got a machine running Arch w/ XFCE and it's pretty damn good with only 256MB RAM. Compositing doesn't really work that well, but only because the graphics adapter in that machine is a crappy Intel integrated controller. Don't let that stop you from trying it, though...yours might be newer (and thus probably more capable of 3D compositing ;)).

I hated kde4 for about 4 days but now i love it. I'm running Pardus and I don't have the time right now to figure out its package management. It doesn't seem to be like any other... I wouldn't even know how to install xfce on pardus, but everything's working at the moment


rK