Thread 106254752

It just uses 380mb of Ram

>>106254752 (OP)
Didn't they switch to LXQt?

>>106254760
Yes_chad.jpg

>>106254752 (OP)
usecase?

What do you need 380 MB for, just to show some windows on screen?

for me, it's LXQt.

>>106255999
>qt
gross

>>106256027
when Ladybird is worth using i'll finally be full Qt :)

>>106255041
380mb of Ram

>>106254752 (OP)
>Just 380mb

>>106254752 (OP)
I still dont get what that weird shape is supposed to be

>>106256154
where's your wallpaper?

>>106256154
248 MB ? For this shit ? My 486SX ran shit like this with 4MB of physical RAM.

>>106254752 (OP)
ancient

>>106254752 (OP)
>X11
No thanks

>>106256196
>VIRT
kys

>>106256219
even 71 is like 10x overkill

>>106256242
Just one full framebuffer alone takes up 8MB on paper. You can't compare this to an X session from the 90's.

>>106256169
It’s a swallow

>>106254752 (OP)
>qt
my entire system eats 200M of ram, i used to daily drive 512M of ram up until 2 years ago

>>106256302
so where did the other 372mb go?
that's right, it went to bloatware C++ libraries compiled with -Ofast -funroll-loops because some linux ricer nigger in charge of the distribution thought that it's a magic switch that makes everything le fast.

>>106254752 (OP)
I had Slackware at 80MB with i3 in 2015. It wasn't even optimized. Used default huge kernel and nothing from the base was recompiled. I think it was like 40MB in framebuffer or less.

>>106256655
in 2014 i posted a photo (and screenshot) here of my laptop running xfce in arch using 65M of ram

>>106256353
I don't know how anyone was ever supposed to guess that.

Has anyone here tried Lxqt with Labwc instead of Openbox?

>>106254752 (OP)
trinity uses 360 and is nicer

>>106256875
>trinity
bloat

>>106256210
Wayland is fragmented and breaks compatibility with a lot of apps

>>106256396
It went into the massive stack that is the desktop environment, from GTK and all the fonts loaded in the system, to the graphics infrastructure and all of its potential OpenGL contexts. That's not even getting to the kernel itself.

>>106256353
The LX guy really likes birds, huh?

>>106256353
swallow deez

>>106254760
you don't need to convince me again

>>106256881
It's literally the opposite of bloat.

>>106254752 (OP)
mogged by xue

does any of these wm look good?

>>106255999
on debian it just installs kde

>>106256396
KDE 4 and Gnome 3 was the beginning of linux eshitification.
KDE 3 and Gnome 2 ran well on a computer with a single core CPU and 128MB of RAM.
KDE 4 and Gnome 3 required 512MB of RAM and a dual core CPU even though they had less features than KDE 3 and Gnome 2.

>>106254752 (OP)
Yeah it'll run on your 2012 OLPC, right?

>>106256353
I fucking LOVE birds!
>BirdOS is lightweight
It's all coming together

>>106254752 (OP)
2025 called. everyone has a couple GBs of RAM to spare now. Stop being poor.

>>106260053
>spare some change
Fuck off. Just because I make more money doesn't mean you're entitled to some of it for no reason and if I keep keeping it away to every hobo, I'll be just as poor as you faggots, which is what you want, don't you?

I remember some distro with xfree86 that ran from two floppies and 24mb of ram

>>106259892
oh i guess its default wm is kwin on debian? makes sense but kinda funny. wonder how much it balloons memory usage. glad lxqt's modular cus i've been married to bspwm for over a decade.

>>106254752 (OP)
I prefer the rat.

>>106260082
what the fuck lmao, begone schizo

>>106260191
No, I will not begone. You ask for some spare RAM here and there to do what you did 30 years ago: display a simple fucking page with text and images (inb4 muh javascripterino. Fuck you, I don't want that, you want that, I just want to read a page with text and some images). And now I keep having to buy more and more RAM because you can't be arsed to do it right the first time. You're like a hobo who begs for money but who could get his life together instead, but plainly refuses to and offloads the debt to someone else. You are scum. You begone, faggot.

>>106259955
A minimal GNOME 48 session takes up 512MB RAM while having many more features embedded directly into the shell now. They've optimized it well.

>>106260082
Meds.

>>106254752 (OP)
Switched from this to IceWM and I must admit the latter is comfier. I still love LXDE, but +200MB just to display some windows isn't ideal.
Behead all LXQt tards btw.

>>106261529
There is no person on the planet that has a gnome 48 session that only uses 512 megabytes of RAM.

>>106256875
How do you run Trixie on 32bit? I thought they dropped support...

>>106262322
you can upgrade to trixie from bookworm they still make 32bit packages just not kernel updates

>>106254752 (OP)
Is it LX1DE or LX11DE or LXDE or LADE?

>>106257994
>>106260037
Is bird de more stable and lightweight than the mouse de?

>>106262248
nta but I did, on arch. if you use a distro that comes with GNOME already configured then that's not happening.

>>106254752 (OP)
Post beef

>>106265630
Post timestamped dick.

>>106264955
There's a reason you didn't post a screenshot.

>>106256353
boring
I always thought it's supposed to be some kind of lightweight alien/scifi super substance that looks like silver and has name like Element X and that's why it sits where the X is supposed to be

>>106254760
I run xlibre

>>106254752 (OP)
Microsoft Vista only used 200MB.

>>106266738
*for home basic

That's more than I am willing to spare.

>>106266738
>>106266747
The bare minimum for Windows Vista Home Basic was 512 MB. Stop lying.

>>106266681
lol

>>106266681
Nobody runs xlibre

>>106267624
Nah, had Vista using 198MB with networking/audio/video back in 2008.

>>106267624
>>106266747
It was Home Premium, and I used this website back in the day to trim the fat.
https://www.blackviper.com/2007/04/10/vista-super-tweaks-online/

>>106267929
Sure you did

>>106267966
OK man

>>106267998
>>106268004
Well, I can see you both are morans.

>>106267758
I do

Daily reminder: If you don't use 100% of the RAM, you are wasting resources.

>>106268061
having more available ram means other applications can allocate more, or your system can cache things like frequently accessed files.

>>106254752 (OP)
NOWADAYS THEY SHOVE 8 GB OF RAM JUST TO LOAD WEBPAGES WITH 17 DIFFERENT ADS FLYING INTO YOUR WINDOWS
try to read an article on the next 9/11 about to happen BOOM HAVE YOU GOTTEN SICK AND TIRED OF YOUR CATS STINKY LITTERBOX?!?
DID YOU KNOW YOU COULD GET DEMENTIA FROM EATING OATMEAL!?!
DID YOU KNOW CHEESE CAN CAUSE CANCER?!?! DID YOU KNOW BF GOODRICH TIRES COME WITH A 30 YEAR WARRANTY EVEN THOUGH IT ENTAILS A HALF OFF COUPON SO YOULL PERPETUALLY PURCHASE TIRES EVERY 2 YEARS
I SWITCHED TO SWIFFER WET JET CAUSE JEWS NEED YOU TO BUY ANOTHER MOP
FEED THE HUNGRY JEWS THE ELDERLY WOMEN ARENT CAPABLE OF TAKING A SHIT OR WIPING THEIR ASS WITHOUT YOUR DONATION
YOU WOULDNT LET YOUR OWN MOTHER STARVE, WOULD YOU?!

>>106256353
I thought it was a chicken foot
FUCK

>>106268061
Daily reminder that if you use swap at all, you are wasting resources.

>>106266506
>>106262248
Cope and seethe.

>>106269458
>Let me just grab a TTY without the wm running
Sigh

>>106267758
>No troon runs xlibre
ftfy

>>106269544
>TTY
Holy fucking copium.

>>106268043
usecase for zen kernel?

>>106270168
it has a cool name so I installed it

>>106269544
if his WM/DE wasn't running or if he was in a TTY, it wouldn't display the DE/WM name in the neofetch, retard

ok but my dwm is using less than 50mb of ram

>>106268061
And using excess RAM wastes power and battery (especially important on a laptop).

Would there be much practical (actually noticeable) performance improvement from running a distro like this on a decent current year system?

>>106270663
Performance depends on CPU cycles, not RAM usage. You want something that doesn't create 1000 interrupts per second.
In my experience, a big sinner is X compositors. I found Xfwm4 with the xpresent backend to be the lightest one, so yay rattie.

>>106254752 (OP)
That's impressive but
>i have 32768mb of ram
>this is not an impressive amount by today's standards
>it's completely acceptable for my DE to use more than 1% of my ram
>3%, even 5% would be perfectly okay
So why would I use this instead of KDE? Is it just for ancient thinkpads?

>>106273044
cause kde krashes

>>106254752 (OP)
if you NEED to use a DE that is lighter on resources than KDE or Gnome, you actually need to use a window manager instead

>>106268043
chudcel award

>>106254752 (OP)
>GTK2
>X11
DE
PRE
CATED

>>106273078
It doesn't though

>>106256899
Works for me. And works better than old crusty X11 ever did.

>>106273462
>Works for me. And works better than old crusty X11 ever did.
sure thing, pinocchio

>>106273462
trvke

guys I can't find memory modules less than 4 gigabytes what am I supposed to do? if I have more the computer tends to start using it despite me asking it not to.

>>106273971
have u checked aliexpress or ebay?

>>106273451
>It doesn't thou-KRASHES

>>106254752 (OP)
$ free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 93Gi 6.1Gi 86Gi 65Mi 2.2Gi 87Gi

>>106260191
>child can't understand metaphor

>>106274695
works on my machine

>>106254752 (OP)
how do you fit 500MB of cached thumbnails and directory listings into that 380MB?

>>106275930
Is that even a thing? Pretty sure in every system thumbnails are stored on hard drive and read from hard drive when needed. Besides i dont think 500MB is enough anyway.

wsl2 is using 16gb too for cuda.
Am I doing it right

Or is this a circle jerk thread from a dead era

jwm plus Rox is better

>>106275881
post proof

>>106254752 (OP)
Last time I checked on OpenBSD my DE could use <100MB RAM

>>106274695
>LXDE thread
>schizo seething about KDE
Post beef.

>>106254760
And the bad part is?...

>>106254752 (OP)
But I have 64GB to spare

>>106277647
take meds

>>106270241
>>106269814
Went real silent after this dropped.

>>106254752 (OP)
RAM is a solved problem for consumers.