[PLASMA 5] Nice comments about Kubuntu on Mint Forum

[Rod J]

I've been following a thread on the Linux Mint Forum for some time titled "Preparing for Mint to drop the KDE distro". It's up to 174 posts and nine pages so far. The latest posts are very complimentary about the latest Kubuntu 18.04 and Neon: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtop...3f7be#p1473419

Most people are amazed how lightweight Plasma 5 is, yet it's so full featured.

[chimak111]

Making people aware that "KDE" is no longer a resource hog will take quite some PR

[Rod J]

Yeah, those "KDE is bloated" myths will take some time to eradicate I guess!

[GreyGeek]

Yeah, those "KDE is bloated" myths will take some time to eradicate I guess!

People on the Mint forum are posting KSystemLog reports of Plasma5 taking only 690Kb of memory. Postings like that are blowing that myth out of the water, especially since the Mint forum is a high traffic area.

[chimak111]

That's just 50K more than what Bill Gates prescribed

[GreyGeek]

That's just 50K more than what Bill Gates prescribed

Ya! He did predict that no one would need more than 640Kb of RAM.

[claydoh]

People on the Mint forum are posting KSystemLog reports of Plasma5 taking only 690Kb of memory. Postings like that are blowing that myth out of the water, especially since the Mint forum is a high traffic area.

heck I have got a couple of people in the Gallium OS and/or ChromeOS subreddits to try out Plasma 5 via Neon on Chromebooks, and they are amazed that that it uses approx the same amount of ram as Xfce (no Akonadi/Kontact running) and runs just as smoothly.

[claydoh]

I've been following a thread on the Linux Mint Forum for some time titled "Preparing for Mint to drop the KDE distro". It's up to 174 posts and nine pages so far. The latest posts are very complimentary about the latest Kubuntu 18.04 and Neon: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtop...3f7be#p1473419

Most people are amazed how lightweight Plasma 5 is, yet it's so full featured.

They darn well better praise Kubuntu , as Mint KDE is all Kubuntu packaging, even using the PPAs by default.

[kc1di]

Mint KDE was one of my favorites and was sad to see they were dropping support. Kubuntu is my new kde driver
The Mint forums are well attended and the myth of kde being a resource hog will be put in it's place eventually.

[woodsmoke]

as to the comments about system useage, always a "bugaboo" for talking head click collecting "reviewers" for Kubuntu or KDE being HEAVY...

I am running Kubu on a 13 year old Toshiba Lappy.

Do I run intensive games on it...no... but that is the OS and the game interacting to be "heavy"...

and i runs just fine and has run fine for over a decade...I just keep upgrading or installing new.

woodsmoke

[KBD47]

I'm one of those who were surprised at how nice Kubuntu 18.04 has become. Even though I started Linux with KDE back in 2011 and liked it from the start, I gave up on it around Ubuntu 12.04/14.04. I went with lighter DE's like Xfce and MATE as my first choice, but Kubuntu 18.04 has impressed me both for its polish and lightweight aspects, running well on even older hardware with lower specs.