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Re: Neon's KDE vs F28 XFCE ram

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Mike Easter wrote:
> Comparing a live boot of default Fedora 28 XFCE to the desktop with live 
> Neon KDE 5.14 (Neon v./s numbered by KDE Plasma v.) Oct 9 release based 
> on Ub 18.04 as reported by free -m: Neon KDE uses 7.6% more ram than 
> F28's XFCE; 408 vs 381 meg.  Also, unlike the gnome graphical tool which 
> reports used ram with high numbers, the KDE graphical report is much 
> more consistent with free's report.
> 
> Various DEs have significantly different resource usage when compared in 
> their boot to the live desktop.  Various reviews which emphasize ram 
> usage booted to the default desktop report ram used based on the gnome 
> tool, which tool is 'inaccurate' compared to free.  Naturally the 
> concept of accuracy here revolves around exactly what is being reported 
> and how it is calculated.
> 
> 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.

    Paul

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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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