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by Schlaefer 1278 days ago
That's fine, but the disclaimer is important. I did a quick test for myself by choosing what's at the top over at distrowatch(tm).

- Fedora plasma ca. 1.4 GB (matching your numbers) - MX Linux plasma ca. 600 MB - EndeavourOS plasma ca. 800 MB

Considering the significant difference you either have to go into more details or make that disclaimer prominent.
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itvision 1277 days ago
"Fedora" is mentioned prominently in the comparison. Not sure if I could do more :-)

Could you show the top output for your distros? I wonder why there's such a huge discrepancy.

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Schlaefer 1277 days ago
> "Fedora" is mentioned prominently in the comparison. Not sure if I could do more :-)

My bad, I only read the title here and never parsed behind the parenthesis on the original page.

Nonetheless the overall language seems to put a lot of weight on the different desktop environments, not the spin/distribution choices.

> Could you show the top output for your distros? I wonder why there's such a huge discrepancy.

This is from MX Linux: https://pastebin.com/7drT8LWt

Not activating the whole Akonadi PIM subsystem by default should easily free two or three hundred MB on KDE. Not sure about the rest.

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