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Re: Kubuntu for Pi-400

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On 8/31/21 10:08, David W. Hodgins wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 11:19:23 -0400, SixOverFive <hae274c.net> wrote:
>>    But KDE on a Pi ... ? K is kind of a drag on some
>>    DESKTOP PCs ! Oh well, he wants what he wants ...
> 
> On an rpi 4b, running kde (Mageia 8) with all desktop effects and most 
> background
> services disabled, it runs much better than I expected.
> 
> $ free -m
>                total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   
> available
> Mem:           3832         736        2359          33         
> 736        2889
> Swap:          6696           0        6696
> 
> It's a quad core 64 bit aarch64 processor.
> 
> Regards, Dave Hodgins
> 

	That is because KDE's Plasma 5 is much lighter than people think.   It 
takes up more space on disk but less in ram memory.
People remember too long what the old KDE was like in the days
of slower processors and more limited disk space and memory.
	You can find online evaluations of various Desktop
Environments and KDE preforms better than most including
XFCE.

bliss - boots & runs a Pretty Cool Linux Operating System aka pclinuxos.

KDE for about 15 years now.  Plasma 5 since it appeared.

-- 
bliss dash SF 4 ever at dslextreme dot com

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Kubuntu for Pi-400 Dave <dboland9@protonmail.com> - 2021-08-28 12:42 -0400
  Re: Kubuntu for Pi-400 Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2021-08-28 10:01 -0700
  Re: Kubuntu for Pi-400 Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-08-29 19:44 +0300
    Re: Kubuntu for Pi-400 Dave <dboland9@protonmail.com> - 2021-08-29 14:53 -0400
      Re: Kubuntu for Pi-400 Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-08-30 10:44 +0300
    Re: Kubuntu for Pi-400 Dave <dboland9@protonmail.com> - 2021-08-29 14:59 -0400
    Re: Kubuntu for Pi-400 Jason Evans <jsevans@mailfence.com> - 2021-11-01 06:58 +0000
      Re: Kubuntu for Pi-400 1p166 <z24ba6.net> - 2021-11-01 11:40 -0400
  Re: Kubuntu for Pi-400 SixOverFive <hae274c.net> - 2021-08-30 00:14 -0400
    Re: Kubuntu for Pi-400 Dave <dboland9@protonmail.com> - 2021-08-30 11:03 -0400
      Re: Kubuntu for Pi-400 "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2021-08-30 12:27 -0400
      Re: Kubuntu for Pi-400 John-Paul Stewart <jpstewart@personalprojects.net> - 2021-08-30 14:49 -0400
        Re: Kubuntu for Pi-400 Dave <dboland9@protonmail.com> - 2021-08-30 16:51 -0400
        Re: Kubuntu for Pi-400 SixOverFive <hae274c.net> - 2021-08-31 11:19 -0400
          Re: Kubuntu for Pi-400 "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2021-08-31 13:08 -0400
            Re: Kubuntu for Pi-400 Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2021-08-31 11:44 -0700
      Re: Kubuntu for Pi-400 SixOverFive <hae274c.net> - 2021-08-31 11:12 -0400

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