What will run on my PC?

[c. marlow]

Hello,

So I have 2 gigs of ram.... I have been running Kubuntu 12.04 
and I am wanting to try Fedora. 

Should I try XFCE or stick with KDE?

Really havent had too many issues with KDE memory wise besides AKONDI eating 
memory when KMAIL isnt open. but other than that thanks to KSPLICE ive had 21, 
22 consecutive uptime without a reboot.

Thanks,
Christopher

[Ed Greshko]

On 03/30/14 09:49, c. marlow wrote:
>  So I have 2 gigs of ram.... I have been running Kubuntu 12.04 
>  and I am wanting to try Fedora. 
>
>  Should I try XFCE or stick with KDE? 
For testing stuff, I run KDE in a VM allocated with 1.5G of memory.  No problems memory
wise for what I use it.

Assuming you have the disk space, install both of them and then move to the one that suits
your needs.  On my "work" machine I've got a few Desktop Environments
installed and when I have some troubles with KDE I switch to GNOME and I'm quickly
happy with KDE again.  :-) :-)

One thing that *may* be of value to you is to run a KDE desktop but use lightdm as the
Display Manager.  Not something I've tried....but lightdm may use less memory than
kdm.  Again, I'm just speculating.

>  Really havent had too many issues with KDE memory wise besides AKONDI
> eating 
>  memory when KMAIL isnt open. but other than that thanks to KSPLICE ive had 21, 
>  22 consecutive uptime without a reboot.
>  
The only time I reboot my system is when the kernel is updated.

Mar 01 08:49:13 Installed: kernel-3.13.5-200.fc20.x86_64
Mar 07 06:01:33 Installed: kernel-3.13.5-202.fc20.x86_64
Mar 11 06:43:09 Installed: kernel-3.13.6-200.fc20.x86_64
Mar 29 06:26:57 Installed: kernel-3.13.7-200.fc20.x86_64

Shows the late updates to the kernel under F20.

-- 
Getting tired of non-Fedora discussions and self-serving posts

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2014-03-30 at 10:10 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>  One thing that *may* be of value to you is to run a KDE desktop but
>  use lightdm as the Display Manager.  Not something I've tried....but
>  lightdm may use less memory than kdm.  Again, I'm just speculating. 
Really not relevant. For one thing kdm is very small (check ps) and for
another the display manager spends 99.999% of its time just sitting
there waiting for the user to log out. IMHO switching to lightdm is not
going to make any measurable difference.

poc

[Kevin Kofler]

c. marlow wrote:
>  So I have 2 gigs of ram.... I have been running Kubuntu 12.04
>  and I am wanting to try Fedora.
>  
>  Should I try XFCE or stick with KDE?
>  
>  Really havent had too many issues with KDE memory wise besides AKONDI
>  eating memory when KMAIL isnt open. but other than that thanks to KSPLICE
>  ive had 21, 22 consecutive uptime without a reboot. 
You already answered your own question. :-)

Akonadi is something of a memory-eater, so if that is an issue, you could 
try some other mail client, but otherwise KDE should be fine.

        Kevin Kofler