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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Everything's about perspective... maybe GNOME became SO bloated that KDE now seems very light. :P

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Look on phoronix for benchmarks. Plasma consumes less RAM and CPU than even XFCE.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Hold on, I was kind of joking, I'm not saying KDE is slow. GNOME for sure is slow as hell.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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.