Re: [Trisquel-users] Mate Desktop Enviroment and Trisquel 5.5

[magicbanana]

By including applications from different DEs, you need to have their numerous  
dependencies (libraries) as well. In the end, the distro does not fit on a CD  
and, when running applications from different DEs, you need to load all these  
libraries into central memory. The latter point means that, globally you wait  
more for the applications to be launched and, obviously, you need more RAM  
(although today, it becomes hard to find a computer with less than 2 GB of  
RAM, the older computers should not be forgotten).