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Power & Memory Usage Of GNOME, KDE, LXDE & Xfce
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Originally posted by bash View PostI'll probably get flamed away for this, but if GNOME (Ubuntu) would have had higher memory usage compared to KDE (Kubuntu), then most people would have come and said how this proves once again why GNOME fails for some many reasons. Now that KDE, which generally gets quite a bit of positive support in these forums, comes out as the "loser", it's all but but but and this is flawed.
Ok so KDE uses more memory. So? Doesn't make it a bad DE or GNOME the greatest DE ever. But instead it's "But on my special-uber-plasma-pwn machine KDE actually only uses -15 MB of RAMz. You fail!!!!11111"
That's just wrong. KDE would need about 150MB on its own and Gnome about 80MB. We know that Gnome uses less memory. But the numbers Phoronix reports are just... wrong.
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Originally posted by BlackStar View PostI strongly disagree. In my experience, Arch >> Fedora > Kubuntu >> openSUSE (with openSUSE providing by far the worst KDE experience). I find vanilla KDE as found on Arch or Gentoo is better put together on the whole. Fedora is somewhat of a mixed bug (maybe due to the unstable nature of the distro) and Kubuntu works but is somewhat lackluster compared to its Gnome sibling (some strange default choices, but progressively getting better). OpenSUSE could be used as a good example of how a distro should *not* look and work like.
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Originally posted by RealNC View PostKDE 4 takes 190MB after start-up. Vanilla KDE, Gentoo.
Phoronix, please, for heaven's sake, labe yours tests correctly. This was an "Ubuntu memory and power usage," not "KDE, Gnome, LXDE & Xfce".
I say this because a poster above you, BlackStar, got 90 MB for Gnome (even with mono and gnome-do and compiz, which are 3rd party apps, it takes 151 MB, still lower than your results).
So from a memory point of view, KDE > Gnome > LXDE (the exact size doesn't matter because it varies from distro to distro, what matters is the difference on the same distro; so phoronix results still stand).
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I don't think there's any doubt that Ubuntu with KDE on top is quite a different animal to Kubuntu in terms of memory usage not to mention various integration bits and pieces.
While it's certainly valid to post stats for Ubuntu plus KDE on top, it would've been quite helpful to include a stock Kubuntu install in the mix as well. Some *buntu users of KDE will have an Ubuntu install with KDE on top, but most would likely go for a Kubuntu install usually.
One thing I will say regarding KDE memory usage though is that KDE plus Compiz has a better memory footprint than does KDE plus composited Kwin.
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Originally posted by deanjo View PostI strongly disagree. In my experience, openSUSE >> Arch > > Mandriva >> Fedora >>Kubuntu (with openSUSE providing by far the most refined and bug free KDE experience).
Yeah, my own experience is something like that. Kubuntu is one of the worst KDE based distro I have used, though it's not so bad as to render it useless (the usability of the core Ubuntu outweighs most faults in my opinion). Never bothered with Arch, but I agree that OpenSuse has one of the better KDE desktops out there. I would follow that with Debian/Sidux. Fedora is alright and still better than Kubuntu, but it's definitely not among the best.
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Kwin has also more plugins and effects than Compiz and what effects are enables and installed also makes a difference...
In the kde 3.5 days there was also a minimalistic version of kde of which the feaures were on par with Gnome and consumed far less RAM and resources and was significantly faster than Gnome.
Is this minimal version of kde still around with kde sc 4.x? I realy want to see these reaults... badly...
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Originally posted by deanjo View PostI strongly disagree. In my experience, openSUSE >> Arch > > Mandriva >> Fedora >>Kubuntu (with openSUSE providing by far the most refined and bug free KDE experience).
I think BlackStar had a bad experience once that will forever taint his opinion of openSUSE. The general consensus that I've encountered is that openSUSE provides a high quality KDE world. Kubuntu opinions are all over the place but generally are a bit lower others.
It would be interesting to see a large opinion poll about the best KDE distros.
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Originally posted by deanjo View PostI strongly disagree. In my experience, openSUSE >> Arch > > Mandriva >> Fedora >>Kubuntu (with openSUSE providing by far the most refined and bug free KDE experience).
While KDE by itself is both usable and pretty (although I disagree with a few specific design choices), openSUSE somehow makes it feel ugly and inconsistent. Kubuntu is closer to the original KDE feel and Arch is, of course, vanilla KDE.
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Originally posted by Jimmy View PostIt would be interesting to see a large opinion poll about the best KDE distros.
I've had to run various distros in order to test KDE niceness around the place and haven't found any grievous errors on Kubuntu's behalf that weren't matched in either the same way, or in others by the other distros.
With the various states of KDE's robustness over time, stability issues due to upstream bugs may map into the general time line differently amongst the various distros depending on when packages get updated, etc.
There's also been mention of Canonicals and Kubuntu contributer patches that may have introduced specific bugs into the KDE desktop but I must admit I haven't really seen it myself. I'm happy to buy complaints against Kubuntu if people can be specific where Kubuntu fails where say OpenSUSE doesn't. General statements without specific examples are a little hard to verify for myself, and after 20 years in the computing industry where many are prepared to throw unfounded criticisms around willy-nilly, I'm hesitant to entertain unverifiable complaints. I do find Samba integration to be lacking relative to Gnome, but haven't found a particular distro that provides an outstanding quality KDE-Samba integration.
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