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0 pointsacheong081y ago0 comments

> KDE will use 2GB of RAM just idling on desktop

As much as I dislike KDE, this is just not true. Perhaps you mean your whole system idles at 2GB including all other running services?

To anyone new to Linux, I recommend sticking to Wayland. Gnome if you're familiar with MacOS, KDE if coming from Windows. Use a popular distro with good documentation online (Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch).

Don't worry too much about memory. Just about anything will be lighter than windows. I've had friends choose the absolute worst X11 desktops because it's "light" then run into all sorts of multi monitor issues

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mrinfinitiesx1y ago

I'm talking utilizing it with the desktop widgets, tools, customizations cool taskbar widgets (I'd add the openAI app), different system informations/rss feeds embedded across multiple monitors.. the stuff KDE is awesome for.

KDE is amazing. I love it. My little laptop though I get by with just XFCE on an i3 8GB RAM, 250GB NVMe SSD.

Agreed on everything else you said. People switching from Mac's ultra-HD for fonts get the 'ick' switching to Linux desktop too. We'll get there.

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