On Tuesday 23 February 2021, 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)?
I do normally use KDE for routine desktop tasks. My hardware is generally at the low end: AMD FX6300 16GB, Nvidia 1650 Super, all SSD for OS and user storage. I don't use any of the KDE's desktops indexing, but I use dolphin, konsole, etc. I do find I have to login to an alternative for Steam+Proton. In KDE, with compositing off, and not much else running, I'd be lucky to sustain 15 frames per second at 2560x1440 (in IL-2 BOS, a WWII flight sim). If I run the game as a stand alone login or via openbox, I can easily obtain 60 frames a second. So KDE may still be too heavy for some purposes. I think KDE/kwin Wayland is still a work in progress. I don't think Wayland kwin yet supports defining which monitor is the primary monitor for multi-monitor setups. I'm still using X11, so hopefully this will be attended to before Wayland becomes mainstream, or that would certainly be irksome for me. So I'm a committed KDE user, but can see some reasons for looking in other directions. Cheers, Michael