On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 7:20 PM, James Knott
On 2014-06-16 11:00, Per Jessen wrote:
For KDE3 1Gb was plenty, but KDE4 needs a bit more.
My old mom board worked well with KDE3, but really bogged down with "Linux Vista" (KDE4). Even with an Intel Core i7 CPU (4 cores & hyperthreading) and 8 GB of memory, performance could be better with KDE4.
Errr.. really? I use KDE4 daily and push it hard, including high end gaming and I've yet to bog it (KDE 4.13) down in any way. I had performance issues with older releases, but not for quite a while now. The only issue... video card maybe? But even there, I'm running openSUSE 13.1 with KDE4 on an old Asus EEE PC (1005HA) which has a 1.6GHZ Atom, 2GB RAM (upgraded from the std 1GB), GMA 950 video, and a generic hard drive (not an SSD). KDE works fine there (with compositing turned off). That is NOT anything resembling a hotrod system at all... yet it's completely usable.. not bogged down (anymore really than any DE on this hardware). There has to be something seriously wrong with the install or your configuration if KDE4 is struggling on an i7 and 8GB RAM. C. -- openSUSE 13.1 x86_64, KDE 4.13 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org