Improving KDE Plasma Performance on Low-Resource Systems

[Łukasz Wojniłowicz]

On 26-08-17 10:13, Lost Nebula wrote:
>A device with 1 GB of RAM may seem extremely old or insignificant today,
>but there are still millions of low-end computers, tablets, educational
>devices, and older systems in use around the world. Instead of completely
>excluding these devices simply because their hardware is limited, making
>them usable with an efficient Linux desktop environment would be a
>significant advantage for the Linux ecosystem.

You may want to try Sway [1] instead. For me it occupies 600 MB in RAM at startup. 1200 MB after
launching Chromium with a single tab.

I have 4 GB of RAM, and that wasn't enough for KDE either.
That was some time ago.
I gave up the hope of resource usage to improve.

[1] https://swaywm.org/
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Łukasz