How Slow is KDE?

[Kurt Wall]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 05:12:44PM -0500, Tim Wunder took 113 lines to write:
> On Sunday 22 January 2006 11:39 am, someone claiming to be Kurt Wall wrote:
> >
> > Which shows that start time is roughly equivalent between KDE and
> > XFCE4.
> 
> So KDE starts as fast as XFCE4, yes. XFCE4 is still considered "lightweight." 
> Not as light as XFCE pre 4, but light nonetheless...

Perhaps the point ought to be simply that KDE's and XFCE's early 
reputations cast a long shadow.

> > > http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2004/10/konsole-vs-xterm-or-proof-that-kde-is.
> > >html
> >
> > Which only says that konsole eats less memory than xterm.
> 
> By what other measure does one judge "bloat" than RAM usage? CPU usage, I 
> suppose. But I doubt that you'll find any difference in CPU usage between 
> konsole and xterm.

konsole != KDE and xterm != XFCE. Measuring bloat is best done on an
apples-to-apples basis. In this case we have konsole (which is part 
of KDE but far from _being KDE_) proxying for KDE and xterm (which is 
not even part of XFCE) proxying for XFCE. My point was simply that the
comparing the respective RSS footprints of konsole and xterm hardly
qualifies as a comparison of KDE and XFCE.

> > Au contraire, Pierre. I use KDE at work. Sure, KDE hackers have a bias.
> > I have a bias. KDE is convenient and integrated. I don't need the
> > integration.
> 
> And the comment wasn't yours, was it?

Eh, which comment? That KDE is as slow as frozen turd sliding down a
horizontal plane? No; I'm just the bearer of the tidings.

> RAM and a fast CPU helps everything.

Yup. Even Windows.

> But it's fun to argue about it. Certainly more fun than arguing about the 
> merits of Fox News over CNN (or vice versa...). And, it's LINUX related!
> :)

Imagine that! On linux-users no less!

Kurt
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