Re: Plasma can be a lightweight (was: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10)
Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z composed on 2021-03-09 19:00 (UTC-0400):
Stefan Monnier composed on 2021-03-09 17:46 (UTC-0500):
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>> I have a 1GB laptop here
>> (with XFCE4) and using Firefox on it has been painful for many
>> years already.
> May I ask, what version of Debian do you use?
> I have been reading throughout the Web
> that Xfce4 is not so lightweight as it was before.
> Apparently, its performance is comparable to that of KDE
> or GNOME.
This may be where that came from:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrvJOXypAbk>
Here's a simple look at RAM before and after first launching IceWM, then
rebooting, then a freshly installed Plasma session on an old single core PC that
had had only KDE3 and IceWM on TW.
# inxi -CGIMy
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Dell product: OptiPlex GX280 v: N/A serial: 20HRT71
Mobo: Dell model: N/A serial: .. . BIOS: Dell v: A07 date: 11/29/2005
CPU:
Info: Single Core model: Intel Pentium 4 bits: 32 type: MCP L2 cache: 1024 KiB
Speed: 2793 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 2793
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 driver: loaded: intel
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1680x1050~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 915G x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 1.4 Mesa 20.3.4
Info:...Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.01
# free # before launching startx into IceWM
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1525408 51264 1313580 1552 160564 1293900
Swap: 1036156 0 1036156
# free # after launching startx into IceWM and Xterm
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1525408 71732 1213716 14980 239960 1259048
Swap: 1036156 0 1036156
20468 used by IceWM
# inxi -Sy
System:
Host: gx28b Kernel: 5.7.11-1-default i686 bits: 32
Desktop: IceWM 2.1.1 Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20210307
I rebooted before launching Plasma and Konsole on the same PC:
# free # before launching startx into virgin Plasma installation
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1525568 51536 1305632 8444 168400 1286812
Swap: 1036156 0 1036156
# free # after launching startx into virgin Plasma installation
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1525568 188264 899976 51360 437328 1103940
Swap: 1036156 0 1036156
136728
# inxi -Sy
System:
Host: gx28b Kernel: 5.7.11-1-default i686 bits: 32
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.1 Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20210307
No, it's not Debian. I never put Plasma on my Debians, which all use TDE. This was
a freshly updated Tumbleweed, so the Plasma version is fresh. There's no XFCE on
it. It won't be added either, as there's nothing about it I like better than KDE3,
TDE or Plasma, and the disk has no room for more additions, worthwhile or
otherwise. Thus, the difference between XFCE and Plasma or IceWM will need a
different PC.
The point is, Plasma can be rather lean, using only 116260 more than IceWM to get
a basic session started.
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