Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why? Date: 11 Jun 2025 03:34:13 GMT Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <9nikhl-qb2.ln1@otis.foo> <102aft1$1icjg$5@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net BkZE75/TYvEUIDmbY9Rp3AhIFlVEva41wp6TGNS6KjeWW+PnQr Cancel-Lock: sha1:WgvMyzP9zWfDdF7v5h407JLWhdo= sha256:c9PsXOyOKiL+vysjIwyVlclOSyafgWAOIuc1Fg6sMX0= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:68665 On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 23:42:25 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 12:43:21 +1000, Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood wrote: > >> I've read that even if you disable all the extraneous crud, like wobbly >> windows and spinning cubes and crap, it doesn't significantly free up >> resources. > > Actually, KDE Plasma is among the lightest-weight DEs around -- lighter > than GNOME. > > Remember, it’s built on Qt, which is a toolkit with a wide variety of > application areas, including on resource-constrained embedded platforms. I don't recall my Fedora KDE spin having wobbly windows and spinning cubes out of the box. I suppose that crap is there if you go looking for it. Ah, there it is, a checkbox for wobbly windows way down in a configuration menu. I don't see the spinning cube thing.