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Re: Neon's KDE vs F28 XFCE ram

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Paul wrote:
> Mike Easter wrote:

>> Neon KDE uses 7.6% more ram 
>> than F28's XFCE; 408 vs 381 meg.  
>>
>> These days many DEs use a significant bit of ram to the live desktop, 
>> including Cinnamon and Gnome, and some Mates, since mate has been 
>> 'graduating' to more complete gtk3.  Likewise LXQt on current Qt vs 
>> LXDE on gtk2.  Many are using well over half a gig, such as 700+ meg.  
>> That is 'difficult' if the booting machine is working with limited 
>> resources, such as those with less than half a gig or half to one gig.
> 
> Have you tried squeezing these down in a VM ?
> 
> You can reduce the RAM size in a virtual machine,
> until the "screen turns black". And that's
> a measure of how much RAM they really need.
> 
That sounds like an interesting experiment.  I know that some distros 
are designed to assess how much ram is available for purposes of 
creating a ram disk at the time of booting a live desktop; and I also 
believe that some developers purposely configure their default DE in a 
way which does not eat up too much ram, while others apparently don't 
consider that a worthwhile consideration.

KDE's Neon creates a default KDE environment which is much more sparing 
of ram than some other KDE distros.  In fact, Neon is very spare in its 
default stable of installed programs in the live default.


-- 
Mike Easter

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Neon's KDE vs F28 XFCE ram Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2018-10-11 19:31 -0700
  Re: Neon's KDE vs F28 XFCE ram Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2018-10-12 09:09 -0400
    Re: Neon's KDE vs F28 XFCE ram Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2018-10-12 09:32 -0700

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