I'm in the middle of writing a pair of articles for Fedora Magazine on this. Not just KDE but all the Fedora desktops. Preliminary tests, on the Fedora KDE spin versus the Fedora XFCE spin. KDE: 723 M XFCE: 416 M
That is not my "minimal install" with the desktop on top of it. It's what you get by default if you install the KDE spin or the XFCE spin. Soo ... not looking too good for the article thus far. Though, I do notice that akonadi is running by default on the KDE spin. I don't usually have that turned on, so it's possible that doing my minimal install will drop the memory some.
On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 6:26 AM Troy Dawson tdawson@redhat.com wrote:
Interesting, but it looks like they load a different distribution for each desktop. So it's not really comparing KDE to XFCE, it's comparing Kubuntu to Xubuntu, and then whole other distributions. If we did that in Fedora land, installed a default KDE Spin to a XFCE Spin, the results would be different just because they both pull in very different packages.
What would be interesting to do, it to start with a Fedora minimal install. install the base KDE and base XFCE desktops, and throw in IceWM as well, and see what the differences are. That would give you the same underlying distribution, with the different desktops.
On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 4:58 AM Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan@gmail.com wrote:
An interesting (though somewhat unscientific) article comparing KDE Plasma with Xfce. Hope it's considered relevant for this list:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/10/23/bold-prediction-kde-w...
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