kde sure is hungry for ram
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@icedquinn
It used to be in the olden days, but it's not as bad now... unless you're really low on ram and need every mb you can get free.
@icedquinn @Awoo
Also depends a lot on how many extensions you use.
although kde has always triggered me. it likes 500mb-1gb and i question why it needs so much for what it actually does
i mean in a high rig with 32-64gb its negligible but it still bothers me because i'm from a long time of crap machines or where 8gb is their upper limit
@icedquinn @Awoo
>although kde has always triggered me. it likes 500mb-1gb and i question why it needs so much for what it actually does
You're joking right? It does A LOT. It's the most feature rich user interface I've ever used. I'm surprised they managed to get it that low. When I switched to it, after a clean install I think it used somewhere between 500-700. I remember that before it I was using xfce, and the increase was negligible for me, on a 8gb system.
@icedquinn
> just plasma with firefox and one tab open already blew it to 2gb.
You're mistaken. You definitely have stuff running in the background that you're not accounting for. I'm saying that because I see something similar. I boot, open Vivaldi and have 2gb or ram usage. But then I also have qbittorrent, syncthing, yakuake, polycromatic, kup and who knows what else running at startup.
So either your Firefox uses up tons of more memory than my Vivaldi (which I doubt), or you've got stuff running on startup that you've forgotten to account for.
when that isn't a problem they're real comfy though
@icedquinn
Integrates well into the system. Does what I need it to do. So why not? 
@djsumdog @icedquinn
If you're not swapping stuff, the sluggishness is probably from something else.
now i have the memory so maybe it's just wasting more of it because it can. i dunno. i would be a little spooked to run it on 8gb RAM though considering how just plasma with firefox and one tab open already blew it to 2gb.
i'm used to running like, i3 or cinnamon where its maybe 500mb or less. (actually i3 alone is even less than that...)