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Ubuntu Linux raises minimum system memory requirements by 50% — requirements bumped to 6GB of RAM, previously raised from 1GB to 4GB in 2018 (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

8GB was barely enough 10 years ago. That's when I switched to Arch+KDE. Then KDE started using more. memory.

[–] hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 18 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

More memory meaning? From 800Mb to 1GB? I'd say, for what plasma is, its ram usage is low.

[–] moxymarauder@thelemmy.club 13 points 3 weeks ago

agreed. KDE is pretty much the gold standard of the usability versus resource usage tradeoff, IMHO. From what I've seen: Websites/Web Browsers = worst offenders.

[–] OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The difference was hundreds of MB, but when you're working with 8GB every bit counts. At that time KDE had an edge over Gnome. At some point the difference wasn't there anymore.

I was rationing what software I had open so as to avoid hitting swap because that's when there's a noticeable lag. Gnome was worse at recovering from that.

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If you want lightweight, KDE is not your best choice. LXQt and Xfce are actually intended for low resource usage.

[–] innermachine@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I have a POS HP stream kicking around. Celeron and 2gb ram on it. It runs well with antix, I have used lxqt and xfce on it and been able to Google things and browse articles on the web, write word docs smoothly. I put kde plasma on it struggles now. Really it's time to retire that thing, but I like to occasionally distro hop on it and see what will run on that bunk hardware. So far antiX has been by far snappiest on that laptop, but it's not as pretty as KDE :c