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by KozmoNau7 2157 days ago
>EDIT: apparently they’re shipping with plasma as the DE? Yeah that’s going to be slow.

KDE Plasma feels snappy even on a Core 2 Duo with Intel graphics, in my experience.

This myth of KDE as some kind of bloated lumbering beast really needs to die out. Install KDE Neon or openSUSE and give it a spin. You'll be surprised.
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swiley 2157 days ago
I think most people who say it’s slow are comparing it to xterm+cwm (or xterm+fvwm or whatever) which it will probably never beat. I installed dolphin the other day so my girlfriend can use my computers and that still does a lot of stuff which can be pretty slow depending on the hardware.
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KozmoNau7 2157 days ago
Anything's going to be slow in comparison to a minimalist X for people who really just want to have a bunch of terminals on screen at once and barely anything else.

KDE (and the other DEs) offer a whole lot more than that, obviously :-) Dolphin does do thumbnails and all of type of stuff, but it's not really a heavy application in itself, it just does a lot of disk-intensive tasks.

Obviously generating thumbnails for a whole folder of photos is going to take a little while on an eMMC drive, just like it takes a little while to get a list of all the shared folders on a network.

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