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  • priapus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    19·
    6 months ago

    The most important parts are at the end of the CPU and GPU performance sections. They performed the same across all desktops. On most modern systems the desktop you use is not going to have any significant impact on your performance, when software you’re running requires resources, they will be directed towards it.

    Also, low RAM usage is massively overrated, especially by Linux users. Your RAM is there to be used, leaving it unused is a waste. It is good for your desktop to be caching a lot of data in RAM when it is otherwise unused. It’s only an issue if its still utilizing an excessive amount of RAM when other apps need it more.

    • gnuhaut@lemmy.ml
      11·
      6 months ago

      This is actual RAM used by the desktop environments that is not available for cache. That is the number he gets from top, it doesn’t include the disk cache. The DE won’t use less RAM even when Firefox needs it, because it is not cache, it cannot be dropped if needed, you just have less RAM available for you applications (or for the actual cache, for that matter).

  • warmaster@lemmy.world
    7·
    6 months ago

    I recently tried Bluefin and Aurora, and KDE Plasma felt way lighter. I didn’t measure it properly so I can only share my anecdotal experience FWIW.

    It’s an intel office laptop running the OS from a USBC M2 NVME SSD Caddy.

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
    51·
    6 months ago

    Measuring these uncustomized directly after booting is a pretty flawed metric, especially with something like KDE that has a lot of features that can be enabled or disabled. i.e. many features that are built into KDE might need external programs that are not included in the base install of LXQt or XFCE, and some stuff might get reused when you start opening LibreOffice, Firefox or a text editor (AFAIK this is definitely a thing if you use a lot of KDE/Qt applicatons). The desktop comparisons I saw during KDE 5.x had it at not that much more RAM use than XFCE, and I doubt this changed that much with KDE 6. Maybe something about Wayland, though? e.g. XWayland might eat additional resources. Also, the baseline RAM use seems really high when even XFCE uses 1.4GiB by default.

    For the record, I use LXQt, not KDE.

  • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    i love this guy’s videos and i bought my last laptop using his discount code; i was waiting for him to provide a slimbook code since i was planning on buying one, but now i think i’ll look for something else.

    • Bogus007@lemm.ee
      3·
      6 months ago

      I do not have a Slimbook but they look really nice on their webpage. However, I miss the possibility to choose among hardware components like with Tuxedo Computers, which is also located in Europe.