What will run on my PC?

[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.

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