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    Using any DE be like: (graph.org)
    submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Damn can you list some of the options you remember changing?

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

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