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KDE is now my favorite desktop

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892 points todsacerdoti | 5 comments | 18 Sep 25 12:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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blenderob ◴[18 Sep 25 13:08 UTC] No.45289202[source]▶
XFCE or LXDE anyone? Honest question - If you use XFCE or LXDE or similar minimalistic DEs, are you happy with the choice? or do you feel somethings are missing that are available in KDE, MATE and the likes?
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vanviegen ◴[18 Sep 25 13:15 UTC] No.45289288[source]▶
Back when the lightweight desktops were popping up, KDE was considered pretty memory heavy. Thing is, KDE hasn't really kept up with growing RAM sizes as well as Windows has. ;-) So unless you're trying to run a Linux desktop on a potato, I'd say KDE should now be considered pretty lightweight.
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1. sho_hn ◴[18 Sep 25 13:19 UTC] No.45289349[source]▶
We also did a lot of intentional action to get the resource usage down in the Plasma 5 generation and timeframe.

E.g. the machine we optimized for during at least one or two Plasma dev meetings I remember was the original Pine64 Pinebook, which was a very under-powered device. We had a stack of them to hand to devs. Intentionally as a "if we can get it to fly there, it'll fly anywhere".

So it's not just that we haven't gotten worse, we also did get legitimately better in later releases compared to some of our porkier ones (which also did exist).

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2. OscarCunningham ◴[18 Sep 25 14:14 UTC] No.45289983[source]▶
Thanks for this work. I switched from xfce when I realised that KDE was nearly as lightweight.
3. zamalek ◴[18 Sep 25 14:37 UTC] No.45290254[source]▶
Yeah it legitimately trades blows with the lightweight desktops.
4. vanviegen ◴[18 Sep 25 17:56 UTC] No.45292808[source]▶
That's genuinely awesome! You people rock! :-D
5. noisy_boy ◴[19 Sep 25 03:11 UTC] No.45297568[source]▶
Thanks to your work, I have stopped DE switching and am very happy with KDE - may you folks always have this user focus!