Re: Is Debian still good for GUI stuff in an over 12 yrs. old PC?

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Mike Easter wrote:
>>> Subject: Is Debian still good for GUI stuff in an over 12 yrs. old PC?
>>
>> I don't think the Deb 11 KDE is a good fit for a low resource 2G 
>> machine unless you are more skilled than I am to reduce its resource 
>> usage.
>>
> I booted the current Sep 2 KDE Neon on my low resource 2G desktop which 
> could 'barely run' (as in quite sluggishly) the Debian 11 KDE nonfree. 
> It took under 3 min to boot live to the desktop; free -m reports 382 
> megs used.  The KDE Neon runs just fine.
> 
> That would be a satisfactory and VERY current KDE to use on a 15 y/o 2G 
> machine.
> 
In another group, an opensuse Tumbleweed KDE fan caused me to look that 
distro over and while I had a stick w/ that, I booted it up on the old 
2G desktop.  It also did fine, like Neon, and used 450 megs live to the 
desktop.

So given the 'modest' ram usage of Neon's Ubuntu KDE and Tumbleweed 
opensuse KDE, I would say that the 'problem child' is Debian's 
implementation of KDE in its provided .iso.  I was using the non-free 
which isn't 'official'.  It is conceivable that the official Debian KDE 
might be better.


-- 
Mike Easter

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