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Distribution: Slackware/Salix while testing others
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Originally Posted by Teufel
I have more than staring at wallpaper: Firefox, Dolphin, Konsole, top, Kate. With desktop effects enables.
How much it consumes, compared to XFCE's 780 MB of RAM?
KDE eats 566 MB. I think I can in addition to these applications open attached screenshot with Gwenview, play card game (Spider) and hear music with Amarok and it still will be less than 780 MB.
next your going to sing the praises of Gentoo and the benefits of its mighty comp. flags. include scrot of your uname -a
Also, ummm, you didn't have as much running just saying and KDE requires more RAM to run then what you are claiming its using.
PS: with flux my above scenario comes down to 500-525mb.
After boot sure its possible...but not with programs open and multiple tabs with Firefox or Chromium etc...If you want low RAM with doing more than staring at wallpaper then its Xfce or a WM set up like a DE.
With this post I logged into Xfce and have the following open after a cold boot: Claws-Mail, Firefox (1 tab), Keepassx, Thunar, htop and xfce-terminal and I have 1.4% CPU and 780 MB out of 8GB.
so obviously it does not matter which DE you uses since the majority of all resources are occupied by the applications you run, what tells me that the story of the slow and/or fat desktop environment [XYZ] (insert random DE names here) is always a combination of running applications, DE configuration and person in front of the screen.
FINALLY!! A truly accurate and succinct comment about the responsibility and options available to the User/Admin debunking the whole "bloated DE" myth. which has especially plagued KDE since v4 was released too soon. Thank you.
Also, ummm, you didn't have as much running just saying and KDE requires more RAM to run then what you are claiming its using.
In other words you say that I am a liar? I added screenshot above, look at top output there (in the black window), it shows how much of RAM it uses. And look at bottom panel, there you can see all the apps that running.
The thread is marked "SOLVED". Could we have a feedback on the action(s) you've taken that solved your "slowness" issue?
It would be nice to share your experience. It could help others.
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