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Graphical Environments & Desktops • Re: Installing a new desktop environment & display manager on an existing installation

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By the way, you can reduce the number of KDE packages even more if you add

Code:

 --no-install-recommends
to the apt command. This way you can get a completely minimal KDE system. Later, you can install only what you need. I've experimented with KDE in my time and here are my observations:
A standard KDE installation (task-kde-desktop) installs a bunch of unnecessary packages. But the thing is that it abnormally occupies the RAM. After the first launch, it eats up 1.2 gigabytes of RAM.

After installing the package

Code:

kde-plasma-desktop
with --no-install-recommends, the system uses 500 megabytes of RAM after the first start. So, if your computer is weak, you can use my method...

Statistics: Posted by None1975 — 2024-06-27 12:44



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