I've been using manjaro kde for over 8 months now and didn't have a single crash. I've also used KDE 4.0, so I know where the reputation of it being unstable comes from. But nowadays it is surprisingly stable. At least on my case.
KDE
This, I don't want my ram sitting around getting fat. I paid good money for this shit, it's going to give me my moneys worth or else.
KDE leaves the calculator out because it is so poorly coded, it'll easily push ram usage to levels twice as high as Gnome. I learned this the hard way.
>not using the glorious xcalc
I expect KDE to be top number 1 full desktop for Linux.
Reason? Is full C++, beautiful code, relatively easy to develop and profile, error check, memory optimizations and so on. Gnome is just a pile of junk C files with out meaning all over, very hard to build a solid foundation how KDE do right now.
When 5.18 comes out this summer it's all ogre for gnome
Trinity is awesome I really liked KDE3
Its like MATE to GNOME2
Just sucks ass it relies on abunch of out dated dependencies
GNOME knows which applications deserves your RAM.
If your application doesn't start or runs poorly because of low RAM, then you should delete it.
Just buy more RAM? If you don't have enough RAM for superior desktop environment (GNOME), then you should invest.
Can you elaborate? Honestly curious.