XFCE lost "lightweight" title

Desktop Environments XFCE
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How much memory do you have in total? Memory usage will be higher on machines with more memory.

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I have 32GB

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I also have 32 GB.

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I got 40Gb

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8 gigs on lapy

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It is somewhat funny that my question turned into everyone reporting how much ram they have in their machine. :rofl:

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How about I change it up a little -

enough!

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I’m currently using Xfce and KDE on my Laptop (with two different logins to prevent clashing of config files) with 8 GB RAM and an Intel i5-2450M processor. Xfce starts up much earlier and is more snappy and responsive than KDE even without theming. After adding latte docks to KDE the startup is even slower.
That’s why I recently switched to Xfce despite both using similar RAM.

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Did you disable the plasma splash screen and reduce all the plasma effects to match what xfce provides?

latte-docks are not lightweight. They consume considerable resources.

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I will try disabling the splash screen and effects and let you know how it goes.

Is plank a more lightweight alternative to latte?

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I don’t know how light/heavy plank is. I don’t usually use it.

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On basic browsing, email, terminal and pdf, I was still able to run Gnome on my old desktop with 4GB only.

No issues for me.

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Any extensions enabled?

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Yes i used 3 addons, sound device chooser, top icons plus and 1 more that i can’t remember.

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Why :thinking:

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That is just how Linux memory management works. It tries to use your available ram, not preserve it.

I have 64GB of ram in my machine and it isn’t uncommon for me to have an application using 4-5GB. If I run that same application on my laptop, it will use a tiny fraction of that memory.

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Sure does :+1: and when it exhausts that - ignoring the slowdown - it invokes Swap :frowning_with_open_mouth:

Yo…! What app is that :astonished:

Not my experience at all - CAD Tower with 4GRAM - HP laptop with 3G or Dell i7 with 8GiB RAM all use same whether one same picture edit in GIMP or using that level playing field :scream: Mult-Tasking test that causes you such grief :face_with_open_eyes_and_hand_over_mouth:

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Almost anything GUI application. Web browsers, email clients, editors. Any application that is open for a long period of time.

I suspect you either don’t leave applications open for extended periods or time or have just never noticed. It won’t be as obvious between 4/8GiB as it is between 4/64GiB but you should still see it over time.

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I confirm. Just having a bunch of browsers (with a bunch of tabs each), an IDE and some communication apps and background services like Apache and MySQL server, my memory usage is around 11GB out of 32GB (I have allowed the IDE in its settings to use up to 8GB, but it is using mere 4.7GB). Every time I see the memory usage cross the 16GB mark I smile to myself and congratulate me on upgrading from 16 to 32GB so I like to see the RAM being used just so I can congratulate myself more often :slight_smile:.

If I fire up a VM the memory usage goes up to around 20GB.

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https://www.linuxatemyram.com/

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