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Comment by FirmwareBurner

2 years ago

My main gripe with pop_os is how bloated it seems and how slow and sluggish it feels at times compared to KDE while its DE feels being more janky and less stable than vanilla Gnome Ubuntu which I also dislike but that's another story.

1.2GB or more of memory usage at idle when most of the KDE distros I tried, even the Ubuntu based ones like Kubuntu, go around 700MB. Plus it just feels sluggish and slow on not so modern machines.

What exactly is Popos delivering more than the likes of Kubuntu or Nobara for the near double extra resources used?

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itsoktocry  2 years ago

>1.2GB or more of memory usage at idle when most of the KDE distros I tried, even the Ubuntu based ones like Kubuntu, go around 700MB. Plus it just feels sluggish and slow on not so modern machines.

Isn't this irrelevant nowadays? Don't the OS's consume/free memory dynamically, and idle usage is meaningless?

Sure, PopOS isn't the best choice for your Raspberry Pi, but we are talking about desktop computing, where 1.2GB of RAM is nothing.

  • FirmwareBurner  2 years ago

    Firstly, 1.2 GB RAM or more is not 'nothing' if you have 8GB of RAM or less, which is still a lot of people these days.

    At that scale the difference 500MB to 1GB RAM wasted by your DE could mean a few extra apps or browser tabs you can run before you hit the swap meaning a great usability boost.

    Secondly, you haven't answered my question on what Popos does extra to justify the extra resource usage, you only justified the resources waste with the argument that 'RAM is cheap'.

sureglymop  2 years ago

I for one absolutely love their hybrid window tiling shell and architecture as Gnome plugins. I don't think KDE has something quite on the same level although there is movement in that space.