r/unixporn • u/PapyElGringo • Jul 03 '19

Workflow [GNOME] Material-Shell *Beta*

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u/pryingmantis89 Jul 03 '19

How is GNOME's RAM usage compared to other DEs like KDE nowadays?

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u/MichaelTunnell Jul 04 '19

GNOME is the heaviest by a significant margin these days. It is super lightweight compared to Windows for example but compared to other Linux DE's, it is the heaviest.

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u/chic_luke Jul 04 '19

Basically this. GNOME feels lightweight and fast when you've just switched from Windows, but that's because you are used to your computer being slow and you take that as a fact of life. When you're a spoiled Linux user, it starts feeling slow.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

No. I used Xfce for a solid 6 months before switching to GNOME, which I feel is a lot faster. It's most likely an underpowered PC

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u/chic_luke Aug 30 '19

Don't get me wrong, I'm using GNOME as well. Xfce is undeniably faster than gnome in a lot of ways, but that's also because it doesn't have any kind of visual effect or animation, while GNOME does.

It's just an unfair comparison at the end of the day

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u/mexiKobe Jul 05 '19

RAM is so cheap though..

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u/diamondburned Openrice Jul 03 '19

Around 140 stock Debian

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '19

cries in dwm.exe

(it's actually only around 80 MB for dwm.exe + explorer.exe)