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by bmacho 205 days ago
A lot of people say that lightweight desktops/distros help. Probably GNOME/KDE unnecessarily use your SSD, network, GPU and other resources even when you are idle, compared to using a minimal WM and only starting the daemons you actually need.

I personally never tested it, and I can't find definite benchmarks that confirm and measure the waste.