Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

[Steve Lamb <grey@dmiyu.org>]

Micha Feigin wrote:
> No, but the cpu cycles required to handle all the overhead do take more
> power (more memory usually means someone is using it, otherwise it
> really is bloatware), and yes its the cpu that is causing the power
> consumption (and even if you do use accelerated graphics to reduce cpu
> work, then it would be the graphics card that takes to power, and newer
> laptop graphic chips can also scale power consumption according to usage)

    Now you're just spreading FUD.  I could write a script that would load up
200Mb of data and then just sit there calling sleep.  Stuff loaded into RAM
doesn't equate to CPU consumption, sorry.

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