Comment by kvemkon
18 hours ago
> I think any empty Qt/GTK app eats 40 MB at least.
Classic GTK is (much) better (RSS on Linux):
GTK2 14 MB
GTK3 24 MB
Once it was decided that a desktop application must have fancy animation effects (like on smartphones) and be rendered completely on GPU things got very different:
GTK4 98 MB
GTK used to be considered the bloated option along with QT. My first Linux box had 128MB of ram and it was screaming fast.
At one point I ran graphical linux on a 20 mb ram laptop although admittedly that was very tight.
I also remember running nt4 with photoshop, word, and my IDE (borland delphi) all at the same time and comfortably in 128 mb of ram.
What was the lean option?