Re: Debian Users...
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 05:43:27PM +0100, Anders Ellenshøj Andersen wrote:
> > who could face loading all of KDE when running on batteries.
> > yuck.
>
> Excuse me but how can using KDE impact your battery life?
Well, CPU cycles are expensive battery-wise (it's more expensive to do
"something" than idle), so the lighter the application the
better for battery life. KDE being on the higher end of the
WM spectrum, it'll be heavier to run than ratpoison.
Also, the less RAM your WM uses, the more likely you are to
fit all your application in RAM and spin the hard disk down.
If you're doing some word processing (or whatever), and your whole
environment fits in RAM, and you desactivate disk synching,
you can work for hours without using the disk. A smaller WM
will bring you closer to that goal, and spinning the disk
down does save battery.
So, it's not KDE per se, it's "big application" against
"small application", when those two applications fit
essentially the same purpose.
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