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Power Use, RAM + Boot Times With Unity, Xfce, GNOME, LXDE, Budgie & KDE Plasma
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Originally posted by Pepec9124 View PostMy plasma takes 400 MB. I'd try GNOME with Fedora. It took 1.2 GB when I tried few months ago.
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I don't know what Ubuntu is doing within it's flavours but Kubuntu (if it was tested here) has some real issues (just look at the used memory).
In my tests on Arch I have different results.
In boot speed and memory consumption its (less its better):
Xfce < KDE < Gnome < Gnome Wayland
I know Ubuntu is likely the most used distribution but it's also the worst to do these tests.
It would be much better to use distribution which deliver a sane, clean and up-to-date configuration of each DE.
Also I would have liked to see Cinnamon too in this comparison.
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Originally posted by birdie View PostKDE 5 is a freaking resource hog and the worst offender is Plasma. Ever since KDE4 was introduced KDE developers have stopped caring about speed, performance and optimizations. That's sad really because I used to love KDE, but now I'm using XFCE exclusively.
Bottom line, Neon shows how good KDE actually is, but it seems packagers can really screw it up. Unfortunately, this translates into wildly different experiences, depending on your distro of choice.
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Originally posted by GhostOfFunkS View Post
No this is a combined news and benchmark forum. Do you even know how time consuming a proper benchmark is? Then YOU show up and counter the hard work with anecdotal evidence because YOU don't like the conclusions. That's judt rude.
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To be fair, Gnome on Wayland is relatively stable, while KDE on Wayland was much more experimental.
Though I haven't tried KDE on the laptop I tried it on, under Arch and Gnome on Wayland I could bring it down to about 300MB on boot time... Which is lower than what Xfce shows under Ubuntu. Xfce on a tuned Arch consumed a bit less. And i3wm is the ultimate winner, but it's a tiling WM, so...
However I'd like to doubt a bit the results. Why would KDE increase the kernel boot time? Can you really trust the systemd-analyze results for the userspace time accross different DEs? Because if Xfce starts pretty fast I have never ever seen KDE need 20 seconds to start, on a *SSD*. Mine takes about 3 seconds...Last edited by AsuMagic; 31 August 2017, 05:58 AM.
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