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How fast is Plasma on old hardware? (self.kde)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by boredsquirrel to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

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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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[–] Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The only effects relevant for performance are blur and background contrast. Turn those off if you feel the system is slow, maybe increase the animation speed and you're done

[–] boredsquirrel 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You cannot disable animations right? Setting the speed to max seems equivalent, but do you know if it actually turns something off?

[–] Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Setting the speed to the max does turn them off

[–] boredsquirrel 1 points 6 months ago

Nice, thanks!

[–] crixero@mastodon.social 1 points 6 months ago

@Zamundaaa @boredsquirrel if you need more performance, taking baloo down can save a lot of system resources, especially when you're using an HDD.