How fast is Plasma on old hardware? (slrpnk.net)

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I have a very cool Core 2 Duo laptop here that runs Linux Mint.

And it is pretty aweful. Would love to put Fedora Kinoite (Atomic KDE) on there, manual upgrades on shutdown, minimal set of apps.

But I dont know how well Plasma works on such old hardware. It is pretty bloated and messy sometimes, Dolphin and plasmashell are my biggest worries (the whole panel and widget stuff is sooo complex).

Has anyone tried Plasma?

An alternative would be LXQt with KWin once 6.1 comes out and it has full Wayland support.

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[-] sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

I've had bad experiances. Started the pc on mint with cinimon, but that had some issues so I installed xfce and plasma to see if another environment may work. Xfce worked like a dream but plasma was quite laggy.

I'd say plasma has similar or possibly mildly better performance than win10. Any time I put it on older hardware it seems to bog it down quite a bit

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago

Plasma is quite a bit more resource efficient than Win11, but yes Win10 is likely pretty similar.

I somehow can just feel the bulk, it somehow feels heavy. The panel and desktop are so modular and just feel bloated and messy.

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