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!
Where’s XFCE?
I wish there was a better way to judge the lightness of full desktop environements than just ram consumption, because speed and smoothness can vary greatly regardless of ram, so we know whether of not it runs well on shitty laptop, lxqt being no faster than xfce in my experience is pretty telling of that
I could live with my DE using 4GB if the responsiveness was that of a year 2000 PC running Windows 98
*launches gnome files*
Oooh, geeky graphs about Linux. This piques my interest. GNOME is still a memory hog, I see. I never would’ve guessed KDE is an even bigger one, though.
Can I request just one more addition? Namely, XFCE, my desktop environment of choice.
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Cool!
We do want snother test: i3wm and XCFE. And then, what about wayland??
I want me de using ram to make everything smoother and load faster. Ram is there to be used.
Having a reddit tab open in ff on windows for longer lengths of time turns into a memory-slugfest.
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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.
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.
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I’ve been on KDE for a while now. Doesn’t feel as heavy as I guess it is. That said, if you want Wayland you’re kinda stuck with GNOME or KDE (if you want something traditional). I’ve been enjoying KDE since the switch, though. I’m hoping it’ll get more resources from Valve.
Still faster than Windows :)
I didn’t know that KDE and Xfce are that close to each other. I really KDE on my daily driver, at first I wouldn’t run it on a server, but now it seems to be a perfectly viable option.
I’m running KDE on a server. Fight me!
Reason: I need a terminal server for various software Dev tools. KDE Plasma has IMO excellent support for that task while performing better than GNOME.
I wonder how Plasma and Gnome over Xrdp are doing for others though.
What are these numbers exactly and why are there two of them?
Bare run vs Firefox with a Reddit tab
Doesn’t Reddit need 100GB ram just for the main page? It’s bloated like crazy.
Probably old.reddit.com
Love kde, but it needs to get that bloat down. Still snappy though.
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KDE is also a bit tricky to benchmark, since it will index the hard drive after you first install it. You have to wait that out to get a representative value.
The indexing thing can be a serious memory hog. I run 16GB of ram and it seriously takes up multiple gigabytes if the system has been on for a few days.
i’d be curious about a comparison in terms of beauty and ux, which are far more important parameters imo
Well, I think, we can all agree that $DE_USED_BY_ME is the most beautiful and usable. 🙃
Like, I even have a blog in mind that does such analysis work, but I doubt I would know about it, if the author didn’t happen to like $DE_USED_BY_ME…
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