After upgrading to 19.4, which finally moved me to the LXQt form of Lubuntu, I thought now would be a good time to re-visit other distros. See if something else beckons me. (I did this about 3 years ago.).
I was struck by how similar (in appearance at least) Peppermint 9.2 is to Lubuntu LXDE. I'm also liking Mint MATE better than I did when I last looked at it (about 3 years ago). In terms of full-blown (not intended to be lightweight) desktop, I liked Neon KDE/Plasma. It didn't feel that heavy, and the memory wasn't that much. Anyway, as I was giving distros a quick exploration, I would open the terminal and run "free". This is what I got for memor used: ======================================= Cinnamon 19.1 = 515,888 Zorin 12 (core) = 487,088 Xubuntu 19.4 = 397,528 Mate 19.1 = 391,800 (disable background img immediately reduced to 367,068. disable animated window/glitter stuff: 348,588) Neon KDE/Plasma 20190418 = 388,356 Lubuntu 19.4 (LXQt) = 342,604 Peppermint 9.2 = 314,108 Bodhi 5.0.0 = 201,652 AntiX 17.4.1 = 159,252 Puppy 8.0 = 150,468 (but, after closing the automatically opened setup dialog: 139,692) ======================================= [In case that's garbled, I uploaded a screenshot here: https://i.postimg.cc/kgTDr34j/distros.png ] Those may not be great comparisons. In most cases I had to open menus to reach the terminal. (That might increase memory use by the time "free" is run.). Other times the terminal was on the panel bar. Also, some distros like Mate were very quick to release memory (after disabling background image or Compiz effects). Others seemed to leave the memory allocated until required by something else (which could be better in actual operation). So, a more valid comparison would require installing each distro, making config changes (screen image, effects, etc.) then reboot. (Even better if each installation had a memory usage widget installed on the desktop so it could be seen without any interaction which might change the memory used.). If there is a way to see guest memory use from outside Qemu, I have all the .iso files and could do that. (I couldn't find a way. I saw some things saying it's not possible because KVM is a black box). Mark
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