• KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I brought my KDE idle RAM usage down to 500MB just by using the GUI options that come with it. That’s about the same amount a default Xfce or LXQt needs.

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        5 months ago

        I disabled all animations, the baloo file indexing and all services that start automatically at login.
        I also installed not the full KDE Suite but just Plasma Desktop and then uninstalled all parts I don’t need.
        So technically, I’m not running KDE but Plasma. From the KDE application Suite I use Dolphin, Konsole, the archiver, the image viewer, the PDF viewer and the system settings tool.

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          Yes baloo is a hog. Note that the background services systemsettings page will be hidden in the future but accessible from the global search.