• iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    “KDE is heavy” is so 2000s. It’s been quite a while since KDE is very tight on resources usage. Unless you’re running a raspberry or similar, there’s no point on constraining yourself with one of those desktops for an everyday use device.

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      10 months ago

      Everything’s about perspective… maybe GNOME became SO bloated that KDE now seems very light. :P

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        10 months ago

        Look on phoronix for benchmarks. Plasma consumes less RAM and CPU than even XFCE.

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          10 months ago

          Hold on, I was kind of joking, I’m not saying KDE is slow. GNOME for sure is slow as hell.

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            10 months ago

            All good, but I think it’s really often a misconception that a DE like KDE, which is big and brings tons of features, must be more ressource intensive than a (feature wise) smaller DE. Which, as the benchmarks show, is surprisingly not the case.