Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 08:58:23 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 18 Message-ID: <20251210085823.00007aa1@gmail.com> References: <187f87f9767214b8$43779$4031116$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <10habf6$15qla$1@dont-email.me> <10hbejb$n003$1@news1.tnib.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:58:28 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="94ac76dcdbe521469afab49ff3f1c591"; logging-data="1719613"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+hEnLCgBDQdZOHNHTSOmeAYyHaLhfAax4=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:Fxo0256AFmYP4TH53LvxDHgEiVU= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.42; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:702505 comp.os.linux.misc:78711 On Wed, 10 Dec 2025 10:30:19 +0100 Marc Haber wrote: > Thankfully we nowadays have computers that are so vastly powerful that > it doesn't matter how "fat" our desktops are. > > And, once a current browser is running, the memory footprint of KDE > compared with "frugal" desktops as lxfe or xfce doesn't matter any > more anyway. Hard disagree. It's bad enough that modern websites are as corpulent as they've become; I don't need everything *else* in my system infected by the same mentality. (One day Moore's Law will hit the wall with pesky real-world physics constraints, and we'll stop getting "easy" exponential drops in $/bit. That'll be a *real* interesting time...)