Power & Memory Usage Of GNOME, KDE, LXDE & Xfce

[V!NCENT]

That's some unthoughtful advice. Some people have better things to spend their money on.

Most people, like me, are seeing a computer as a little bit more of a valuable nessecaty then others I guess. More than a car that is. If you' re doing it right you can upgrade your entire PC for no less than 300 dollars. If you can use that for 6 years than that's pretty much of a good investment. Unless you're talking food and a roof above your head I'd say there aren't a lot of things more important than a computer...

Which is a horrible price hike when ~2 years ago it cost 20$.

Realy? DDR3?

[curaga]

Realy? DDR3?

No, DDR2. I still see no need for DDR3, except that due to ddr2's price hike it will soon be cheaper...

[molecule-eye]

I did a little *subjective* battery testing on my laptop (Core Solo 1.06Ghz ULV, Intel 945GM, 2GB RAM, SATA HDD), pitting KDE 4.4.5 Kubuntu 10.04 vs. latest (stable) gnome version in Ubuntu 10.04. I noticed essentially no difference between the two. Compositing enabled in both, doing basic things like reading/scrolling/opening documents (mostly pdfs), text editing, and web browsing mostly. I imagine the important thing is that I try to use programs intelligently, which means almost never scrolling (I use page downs instead) and disabling/quitting programs that cause a lot of wake ups according to powertop. Maybe if I ran my laptop on the battery as I would from a power source things would be different, but do (sensible) people do that?

I find this quite satisfying actually because I like KDE quite a bit more than gnome (especially because of Okular, Kile, Kopete, Dolphin, Gwenview and plasma-desktop vs their gnome counterparts), and while KDE feels sometimes a bit more sluggish than gnome (I think mainly for opening more feature-filled apps), it's not a problem if you already have them open when you move to battery power.

[molecule-eye]

It would be nice to see this test redone from a more realistic usage perspective. E.g., it would be nice to see the computers set to do some light/moderate web browsing with some text editing/word processing, file navigation, etc. in between.

The tests done here are so far away form real world usage that one has to wonder how useful they are.

[halo9en]

These tests need to be redone today: power and memory usage of gnome, kde, mate, xfce... and no ubuntu this time please!

[Adarion]

Signed.