i am fairly new to endeavour: and i like it. But i guess that i have installed it on the wrong machine - or in a wrong manner - that is - with KDE and not with a damned small desktop.Version
full story: i run it on a old notebook
it is a Asus A 54L; CPU i3; 4GB RAM - note the i3 is probably a older generation. The notebook itself is about 8 to ten years old
I have installed EndeavourOS - and i have to tell you: i love it from the bottom of my heart.The first installation - was to play around and to test it - so i installed it on a quite very old Notebook.
i took the KDE-Enviroment -
after 4 Week testing and playing i have to tell you.
it collapses quite alot - i get freeze and other things - eg. in the browser (vivaldi) or the libreoffice that ia
running in parallel to GIMP and a Vivaild - juzst quits working
I get responses like so;:
ther is no -"answering " of this software - . -Do you want to close it?
Well what could i do now - are there other desktop environents !?
Yes there are many. You can select another DE if you use the online installer. There also windows manager like i3wm that use the least RAM out of the box, but its not going to change much RAM usage of Firefox and other apps. Definitely less bloat than kde though
many thanks for the quick reply. I am happy. MrVictory - what do you mean by disabling the indexing form Syst-.Settings!?
@pebcak - well sure thing youre right - i will try to provide you with extra infos - but imagine: if the whole system freezes i cannot even open the log files
all that things are not able
BTW: does it matter - how many tabs in Vivaldi are open?!
in other words - if i have 1 tab open or 40 - does this make any difference!?
KDE ships with an application called System Settings. Just search for it like how you would do for any other app. Then inside settings, look for File Indexing. Disable it.
if i have 1 tab open or 40 - does this make any difference!?
Yes. Some browsers like MS Edge have a feature that puts tabs to “sleep” so it doesn’t take your system resources.
Are you using another terminal or other instance of the package manager at the same time? It’s locking the database to avoid overwriting it I assume.
Btw nothing to do with htop itself. First fix that issue, then update your database, then install software.
You could create a swap file. I use zram of 9Gb (8gb for the ram + 1Gb for hibernation). You could create a 5Gb zram swap file. My swap is not even being used in the screenshots I posted. You should be fine with what you have.