Every once in a while I think I'll drop my mix of all those GTK/Gnome-based apps plus some Qt apps, and switch to a full KDE desktop. More coherent. Uniform look etc.
I just tried Q4OS yesterday but it runs under Xorg. Isn't wayland the default for KDE these days? Which distro should I live-check?
Another thing, I noticed that something called ksyslogger iirc consistently eats CPU. A daemon that keeps up with everything that's happening. Is it possible to disable this without breaking KDE, or otherwise make it as lightweight as, say, a simple Openbox desktop?
Using Falkon under a Plasma desktop was a great experience though.
BTW, does KDE have a good equivalent for all the usually important apps, e.g. a full-fledged mail client?
Fedora KDE, CachyOS, Debian. One of those, depending on your needs.
You can rice KDE Plasma easily. Check why ksyslogger uses so many resources, it's not normal. You can get a full Plasma desktop with under 400MB of RAM usage and under 0.5% CPU.
I use Thunderbird as mail client, as Kmail doesn't really cut it for me.
On a Thinkpad T430s with a Intel Core i5-3320M, i.e. 2 cores with 2 threads each at 3.3GHz max., ksyslogger ran at 3-5% CPU. This was in a live environment which I shut down after tweaking it for about 30mins, so IDK, maybe it would've settled down evtl.?
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A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 1d
Every once in a while I think I'll drop my mix of all those GTK/Gnome-based apps plus some Qt apps, and switch to a full KDE desktop. More coherent. Uniform look etc.
I just tried Q4OS yesterday but it runs under Xorg. Isn't wayland the default for KDE these days? Which distro should I live-check?
Another thing, I noticed that something called
ksysloggeriirc consistently eats CPU. A daemon that keeps up with everything that's happening. Is it possible to disable this without breaking KDE, or otherwise make it as lightweight as, say, a simple Openbox desktop?Using Falkon under a Plasma desktop was a great experience though.
BTW, does KDE have a good equivalent for all the usually important apps, e.g. a full-fledged mail client?
helix@feddit.org · 2 pts · 21h
Fedora KDE, CachyOS, Debian. One of those, depending on your needs.
You can rice KDE Plasma easily. Check why ksyslogger uses so many resources, it's not normal. You can get a full Plasma desktop with under 400MB of RAM usage and under 0.5% CPU.
I use Thunderbird as mail client, as Kmail doesn't really cut it for me.
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 10h
Surely this depends on the CPU?
On a Thinkpad T430s with a Intel Core i5-3320M, i.e. 2 cores with 2 threads each at 3.3GHz max., ksyslogger ran at 3-5% CPU. This was in a live environment which I shut down after tweaking it for about 30mins, so IDK, maybe it would've settled down evtl.?