Bloved Madman to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year agoSurface Laptop 3 running Kubuntu, such an improvement over what it was "designed" for.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square76arrow-up1345
arrow-up1345imageSurface Laptop 3 running Kubuntu, such an improvement over what it was "designed" for.lemmy.worldBloved Madman to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square76
minus-square@themusicman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•1 year agoIt would be smooth as butter with a lightweight desktop (probably not KDE). I suggest Linux Mint XFCE edition
minus-square@TCB13@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoEverything’s about perspective… maybe GNOME became SO bloated that KDE now seems very light. :P
minus-square@aksdb@feddit.delinkfedilink4•1 year agoLook on phoronix for benchmarks. Plasma consumes less RAM and CPU than even XFCE.
minus-square@TCB13@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-21 year agoHold on, I was kind of joking, I’m not saying KDE is slow. GNOME for sure is slow as hell.
minus-square@aksdb@feddit.delinkfedilink2•1 year 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.
It would be smooth as butter with a lightweight desktop (probably not KDE). I suggest Linux Mint XFCE edition
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Everything’s about perspective… maybe GNOME became SO bloated that KDE now seems very light. :P
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.