The host is Archlinux with virt-manager. Desktop environments are Fedora spins. Virtual machines are given 5.7 GB. If you want any other test to be run let me know!

    • AgreeableLandscapeM
      5·
      2 years ago

      Not sure if this is relevant still, but I’ve read advice that on heavily memory limited systems, you should always pick a DE with the most commonly used GUI library (GTK3 currently I think), to avoid having to load two separate libraries most of the time. For example, if your DE is Qt or GTK2, but you have Firefox open, which is GTK3, both GTK3 and GTK2 (in the case of LXDE, or Qt if LXQt) would need to be in memory.

    • Subversivo
      1·
      2 years ago

      The answer is: fedora base system is bloated.

      LXDE and LXQt consumes some 60~80 MB in a clean install. The rest is fedora itself and the other apps in the spin.