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minus-squareaksdb@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up4·10 months agoLook on phoronix for benchmarks. Plasma consumes less RAM and CPU than even XFCE.
minus-squareTCB13@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-210 months agoHold on, I was kind of joking, I’m not saying KDE is slow. GNOME for sure is slow as hell.
minus-squareaksdb@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoAll good, but I think it’s really often a misconception that a DE like KDE, which is big and brings tons of features, must be more ressource intensive than a (feature wise) smaller DE. Which, as the benchmarks show, is surprisingly not the case.
Look on phoronix for benchmarks. Plasma consumes less RAM and CPU than even XFCE.
Hold on, I was kind of joking, I’m not saying KDE is slow. GNOME for sure is slow as hell.
All good, but I think it’s really often a misconception that a DE like KDE, which is big and brings tons of features, must be more ressource intensive than a (feature wise) smaller DE. Which, as the benchmarks show, is surprisingly not the case.