Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released Date: 12 Dec 2025 19:59:00 GMT Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <187f87f9767214b8$43779$4031116$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <10habf6$15qla$1@dont-email.me> <10hbl09$1di3b$22@dont-email.me> <10hgv84$2r3rh$16@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net QedwCtUoZV3DiojbjWc/igJeMm/QibzQuJqlKFVy1WLFTux4cI Cancel-Lock: sha1:OTMmpDsd7f+2R9gIo4AAt7w9crw= sha256:VWge9XVi2DgMbY23Y6zAtR13mHRPSD3/xRPy8RBTewY= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:78947 On Fri, 12 Dec 2025 11:45:08 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 11/12/2025 22:36, rbowman wrote: >> On Thu, 11 Dec 2025 01:25:33 -0500, c186282 wrote: >> >>> Similar experience. 'X' does NOT horribly bog down even low-scale >>> systems. PIs run perfectly zippy using 'X'. >> >> As I pointed out yesterday my RPi5 with the Raspberry Pi OS runs >> perfectly zippy using Wayland. > How much memory does a bare desktop use? The Pi is using 1.8 Gi with Chromium and VS Code up. The Fedora box is 3.6 Gi with KDE, The Endeavour is 2.0 Gi with Sway, and the hog is Ubuntu with 7.6 Gi but it has a lot of stuff open. I killed Firefox on the Endeavour box and it's down to .87 Gi. Sway is about as bare as it gets.