<story><title>Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my theme, config and some</title><url>https://raymii.org/s/blog/Using_IceWM_and_sharing_my_config_and_tips_tricks.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prvc</author><text>&amp;gt;KDE is my desktop environment of choice. KDE5 is rock-solid, configurable in any way possible and works great. It treats you like a responsible adult instead of a child like GNOME does these days, and after XFCE switched to GTK3, the RAM usage is on-par, more often than not a bare KDE install (Debian or Arch) uses around 300MB ram. This is with Baloo (search indexer) and Akonadi (PIM database backend) disabled.&lt;p&gt;The GNOME Foundation&amp;#x27;s supposed rationale for removing basic functionality from its desktop is to help inexperienced users, and international users. However, those are precisely the same users who are more likely to have a shortage of computing resources. GTK&amp;#x27;s bloat is really indefensible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nextos</author><text>If you are reasonably experienced and constrained by resources, a great option is to use a window manager without a desktop environment.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s my setup because it has fewer moving parts and lower latency, as there are only a handful of processes running and no compositor.</text></comment>
<story><title>Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my theme, config and some</title><url>https://raymii.org/s/blog/Using_IceWM_and_sharing_my_config_and_tips_tricks.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prvc</author><text>&amp;gt;KDE is my desktop environment of choice. KDE5 is rock-solid, configurable in any way possible and works great. It treats you like a responsible adult instead of a child like GNOME does these days, and after XFCE switched to GTK3, the RAM usage is on-par, more often than not a bare KDE install (Debian or Arch) uses around 300MB ram. This is with Baloo (search indexer) and Akonadi (PIM database backend) disabled.&lt;p&gt;The GNOME Foundation&amp;#x27;s supposed rationale for removing basic functionality from its desktop is to help inexperienced users, and international users. However, those are precisely the same users who are more likely to have a shortage of computing resources. GTK&amp;#x27;s bloat is really indefensible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrekandre</author><text>its kind of ironic if you think about it, youd think removing features and simplification should allow for more optimization not less...</text></comment>