don't believe the hype my dudes
>tfw spent 6 years on XFCE because everyone said KDE is """heavy"""
Brody Campbell
Ethan Nguyen
it installs fucking VLC so random system utilities can make obnoxious sounds
Zachary Edwards
dude those sounds are comfyyyy, have you heard the kde 4 sounds? makes the experience so much nicer imo, i miss when computers made noise
Gavin Perry
>2018 and still not using LXQT
Oliver Flores
"i have down syndrom": the post
Jack Bennett
fuck you
Andrew Miller
KDE will always be the best DE.
Joshua Sanders
but XFCE looks comfy anyway so what's the big loss?
Parker Rodriguez
I always liked KDE over XFCE, it looks way better.
>inb4 some nerd whines about bloat
Leo Reyes
uh, just use the gstreamer backend?
Jackson Gonzalez
will only be relevant when it can into wayland and pcmanfm-qt doesn't remember sort for some reason
Blake Martin
Having KDE without bloat is really simple. Just install your distro without a DE then install the base of KDE plasma. It comes with no extra utilities, so you can just manually download the ones you want. This coupled with disabling shit like bluetooth and device managment sheds a lot of weight off KDE. It'll still be hard on RAM, but personally I've never gone much higher than 4GB on my Debian install running KDE even when I have a bunch of tabs open. I would only ever go XFCE if you only have 4GB RAM or if you just prefer it over KDE. It certainly has nicer panel managment.
Jack Ortiz
I don't understand the people who complain about the "bloat" that kde has, I never hit more than a gig of ram on start up, if I do a minimal install its at 500mb...
Isaiah Martin
i3
Grayson Wood
Have you tried embracing the Akonadi botnet? is really comfy, specially on openSuse with KDE Connect on your phone. It evens tricks programs into using kwallet instead of gnome keyring.
Early plasma versions would leak a lot of memory until your system crashed, but is all daijoubu now.
Austin Wilson
*krashes*
Jack Perry
Are there seriously people, who rather listen to some random shitposting strangers on the internet than test the few DEs in existence and settle on the one they like most?
I do on an old laptop of mine. Still not quite on par with LXDE, but they are getting there.
Camden Diaz
It is, but KDE is a order of magnitude more comfy than XFCE
380 MB Kubuntu cold start checking in
Yes, I was one of them
John Sanchez
KDE is all right, but it has the problem that Akonadi is really only usable with PostgreSQL. Try MATE and LXQt, too.
Jack Parker
I'd praise KDE if it didn't start using >150% CPU everytime I lock my screen for >5 min until I killall plamashell && kstart plasmashell.
Parker Young
KDE was heavier - when that was relevant like a decade ago.
Charles Turner
Im waiting for the Kiss of canonical to be official before i migrate from LXDE
Kayden Anderson
Meanwhile I'll never use KDE because of this bullshit right here.
Camden Jenkins
So what do you use?
Nolan Foster
Not a DE.
Connor Thompson
if you're still using DEs in 2018 just get windows my dude
Andrew Collins
I didn't say anything about whether or not you should use a DE, just that i3 is not a DE.
Aaron Gonzalez
they say everything is heavy because they use DEs and WMs that only use like 20mb of ram. You can run plasma 5 on a total of 1gb reasonably comfortably.
Juan Reed
sorry youre too toxic to use the greatest de
Connor Morales
i3 is a DE
Andrew Rogers
As of kde 5.13 the ram usage is on part with MATE and like 75% less than gnome.
And that's with everything like kde wallet and akondi running. Fuck off
Adrian Kelly
Xubuntu and puppy.