Hi Wolfgang, On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 07:26:17PM +0100, Wolfgang Schweer wrote: > Today I installed two workstations, one with desktop=kde, the other one > with desktop=mate (virtualbox machines, 2 GiB RAM). > > Both workstations are usable; you tested them with a main server, I assume? > the KDE one has a better menu integration, > but still lacks the Debian Edu version of the favorits as it used to be > for the jessie release. > On the other side, MATE doesn't have the favorits at all. > KDE looks more 'modern' compared to MATE. ack > As far as memory consumption is concerned, MATE wins. But the difference > is not that great. > After having logged in and the desktop shows up, MATE uses 222 MiB vs. > 383 MiB for KDE. ok, not that much indeed. > As far as the time is concerned, MATE wins again. The desktop shows up > almost immediately, while KDE takes some seconds until it is usable. ok, some seconds is not great, but not as bad as described in #606016 which was "indexing takes a minute using all CPU and creates 100mb data". so it seems we can close #606016 now? (and assume it was a bug present in some development state…) > So for the sake of continuity we might as well keep KDE as default. /me nods. Mike will probably not like this, but we have many users and it's easy to switch to Mate (or any other desktop) anyway. > (The KDE menu can now be configured to show up in one of three flavors > by right clicking the K symbol.) > > It might be good if someone could do performance tests on real hardware… indeed! -- cheers, Holger
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