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nta but a minimal GNOME install on Arch uses the same amount of resources as Hyprland. since it does nothing out of the box, the moment you actually add shit like a status bar, wallpaper daemon (because that shit has to run in the background on Wayland) and such it'll easily be heavier than GNOME, not even mentioning actually lightweight DEs like XFCE or LXQT.
KDE does not apply because it's actually impossible to make it lightweight.