On Mittwoch, 19. April 2017 22:44:58 CEST Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2017-04-19 22:24, Daniele wrote:
Il 19/04/2017 22:01, Carlos E. R. ha scritto:
On 2017-04-19 21:12, Daniele wrote:
Il 19/04/2017 12:32, Vojtěch Zeisek ha scritto: ..
I liked very much the idea that installer should somehow "check" the hardware and if it is too weak to run KDE/GNOME, the installer should as default promote e.g. XFCE and/or notify user KDE/GNOME would require more CPU, memory, whatever. I have no idea how difficult would it be. I think everyone can imagine frustration from running terribly slooooooow system. Especially when some more lightweight DE would run fast on very same HW.
Please, define too weak. Modern browser are more resource hog then Plasma/Gnome.
Not on the video hardware.
All the rest ;) Not enough ?
Both KDE and Gnome seem to demand a lot from the video card to display, so that sometimes it simply works slowly. It is also possible that the CPU has to do the work of the GPU simply because the driver is not capable; the CPU is overloaded and the result is slow for the entire system.
KF5/Plasma runs fine on the Core2 Solo 1.2GHz Laptop with Intel integrated graphics I gave to my mother. Bought that in 2009 for 500€. That was low end in 2009, and is less anything you can buy today.
Other times it is the CPU load that is too much, while the machine has capable video hardware with proprietary driver and all. Or has little memory.
On all those cases, telling the user to try a desktop such as XFCE solves the issue and the user says the machine behaves briskly again.
Most of the time I have seen high CPU load it was firefox or some other application. There have been bugs which caused high CPU load by components belonging to Plasma, but not during the last year. Using XFCE may make things even worse, if you e.g. use Digikam in XFCE you need Qt5 and some KF5 libraries in memory, in addition to XFCEs libraries. On my computer, firefox and its plugin container are by far the "fattest" processes, and I have dolphin, kontact, konqueror, konsole running as part of a full Plasma desktop session. Kind regards, Stefan -- Stefan Brüns / Bergstraße 21 / 52062 Aachen home: +49 241 53809034 mobile: +49 151 50412019 work: +49 2405 49936-424 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org