Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Per Jessen
[02-23-21 13:14]: mauro wrote:
through our four KDE repos it's even nicer than bfore, htop says cpu usage < 5%, RAM 1,2GB with 5 open programs, on a machine 10+yrs old
I always wonder why there are people who use a different DE (among those who do use a DE) and which be their reasons...I couldn't think of anything better, I only miss sometimes the mouse wheel scrolling speed setting, I'm looking forward for it to be re-implemented
So, why don't you use KDE? And why do you use (not-KDE)?
On minimum hardware, other more frugal DEs perform better. I don't often have the reason, but I have used LXDE and icewm in the past.
Otherwise I am also a committed KDE user, the entire office.
I read a study sometime in the last six months that commented KDE was actually quite frugal with system resources, even more so than ice and xfce. but it does seem hard to believe.
Downstairs we have an old office PC - dual-core, 2Gb RAM, integrated graphics - it's only being used as a console. That one is a candidate for a more lightweight DE, but it's also sort of being used a test platform for Tumbleweed. Another place I used LXDE not long ago - Raspberry Pi 3B+. IIRC KDE was not really usable. 'Frugal' may not have been the right word - what I want is speed, I don't want to wait when I'm unlocking the screen or swapping from window to window. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (6.7°C) http://www.cloudsuisse.com/ - your owncloud, hosted in Switzerland.