GNOME vs KDE Plasma vs Xfce vs LXDE vs LXQt vs MATE vs Cinnamon - RAM Usage

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Justo lo que necesitaba ver, gracias!

Can you please also benchmark it with some firefox tabs? Afaik some DE doesn't have good boot RAM Usage but it could maintain stable RAM usage after opening some program

I can't believe it. I see for the first time ever, The heaviest and clunkiest Gnome (almost)win the ram usage contest. It is like a Hulk Hogan winning the Miss America.

Did you install all of those DEs in the same debian installation?

What base are you using to test the desktops on ? My current LxQt uses only 390mb.

weird, my xfce only uses less than 400MB and kde plasma about 420MB

Thank you so much for this! I've been curious about the new LxQT, interesting to see it's only a little bit leaner than XFCE.

After watching this I Immediately installed Gnome. I was dreading lxqt in my new low specs install.

XFCE doesn't look like vanilla

Those numbers do not make any sense!

l must say xfce is a pain in the ass but it has 100+ fps on low end spec pc

Interesting. I just Debian GNOME today & it used 1GB ram on my laptop.

I have seen Gnome hanging with 3, 4 terminal and 2, 3 chrome windows but xfce managed more than that without a sweat. Memory management in xfce is far better than gnome. Never tested 41.

I installed Fedora 35 so I will test Gnome 41 soon.

xfce 700mb are you serious the most lightweight DE is big like dat
thats so weird never happened to me ??!!!!!😮

I have Manjaro KDE 5.24.5 on my PC and it uses about 600MB, but Fedora GNOME 42 uses 1GB with no autostart stuff

There are NOT vaild at all

Gnome 41.1 = 681 mb
Kde Plasma 5.23.4 = 772mb
Xfce 4.16 = 716 mb
Lxde 11 = 599 mb
Lxqt 0.16 = 698 mb
Mate 1.24.1 = 720 mb
Cinnamon 5.0.6 = 830 mb

Arch LXQT only uses about 372 MB.

With these these weird results i did my own tests, also on Debian:

Computer : Virtualbox 6.1
Virtualbox Guest Additions: no
Guest OS : Debian testing
Guests Kernel: 5.18
Guests RAM: 8Gb
Guests Video Ram: 128Mb
Guests (default) screen resolution: 1024x768

Ram usage 2 to 4 minutes after boot:

"Net install" without xorg for the common base, then for each DE, intalled htop and each available meta packages for each DE (normally heaviest to lightest):

Gnome 42.4 - task-gnome-desktop : 880Mb (without Recommended packages: 702Mb)
Gnome 42.4 - gnome : 930Mb (without Recommended packages: 795Mb)
Gnome 42.4 - gnome-core : 814Mb (without Recommended packages: 705Mb)

LXDE 0.99.2 - task-lxde-desktop : 322b (without Recommended packages: 204Mb)
LXDE 0.99.2 - lxde : 280Mb (without Recommended packages: 198Mb)
LXDE 0.99.2 - lxde-core : 259Mb (without Recommended packages: 198Mb)

LXQT 0.16 - task-lxqt-desktop : 440Mb (without Recommended packages: 312Mb)
LXQT 0.16 - lxqt : 416Mb (without Recommended packages: 319Mb)
LXQT 0.16 - lxqt-core xorg (openbox) : 382Mb (without Recommended packages: 247Mb)

XFCE 4.16 - task-xfce-desktop : 449Mb (without Recommended packages: 272Mb)
XFCE 4.16 - xfce4 (xorg) : 348Mb (without Recommended packages: 259Mb)

MATE 1.26 - task-mate-desktop : 417Mb (without Recommended packages: 334Mb)
MATE 1.26 - mate-desktop-environment-extras lightdm (xorg) : 401Mb (without Recommended packages: 343Mb)
MATE 1.26 - mate-desktop-environment lighdm (xorg) : 376Mb (without Recommended packages: 336Mb)
MATE 1.26 - mate-desktop-environment-core lightdm (xorg) : 400Mb (without Recommended packages: 347Mb)

KDE 5.25 - task-kde-desktop : 598Mb (without Recommended packages: 393Mb)
KDE 5.25 - kde-full : 568Mb (without Recommended packages: not tested)
KDE 5.25 - kde-standard : 548Mb (without Recommended packages: not tested)
KDE 5.25 - kde-plasma-desktop (sddm) : 550Mb (without Recommended packages: 375Mb)

Cinammon: not tested

What the hell have they did in their tests?

Strange, for me GNOME always used up over a gigabyte at idle no matter the distro. And no other DE do that.

Pero ahora uso de cpu que es algo en lo cual gnome y otros pierden por goleada

Enlightenment?

The numbers in this video are not accurate

something's wrong 😂

what theme lxde?

thanks! short and useful!

I LOVE THE FIRST SONG!!!

why everyone always comapring how much RAM consumed after boot but no one comparing about CPU consume per app like Chrome or Ffirefox? high RAM but small CPU usage is better than small RAM but high CPU usage

Great stuff, thank you very much. Your numbers are pretty accurate with the way each one of these feel to me.

wow i can't beliver... GNMOE IS the second minimun usaged!

how? my kde is 3 Gig and i already disabled a lot of things

Long live lxde!

Пожалуй, самый лучший наглядный обзор для новичка, лайк+подписка! Я к сожалению винданутый, и вся эта маркетинговая система всё больше и больше прижимает меня в угол, поэтому хочу всё-таки изучить Линукс. Искал хорошие гайды для новичка, но мало чего находил, а если и находил, то там вначале казалось хорошим, а потом опять непонятно становилось. А тут коротко и без воды, в общем, продолжай делать видео!

P. S.: А для себя я выбрал LXQt, так как он больше всех похож на Windows, и думаю, я лучше освою. Ещё раз спасибо за видос!

Waaaaiaiiiiiiiiit please! How did you do that? I am new to Arch haha, how to reduce KDE PLASMA idle ram usage, it's about 1.6GB 😅😅😅

Is there any chance for you to make an Update of this video using the latest Version Available of Debian (Today is 12.4.0) ? (As for the date of this Comment it is Debian 12.4.0) - December 2023 -

On my dual booted laptop
Windows 10: 3.7 GB
Linux Mint (Cinnamon): 1.1 GB

I tried GNOME, Cinnamon and XFCE. Ram usage when the system is idle:

GNOME - around 1GB
Cinnamon - around 700MB
XFCE - around 500MB

How is GNOME can be lighter than Xfce?

These numbers are sus

Wooow, this video is bad 😂

LXQt 380MB Ram max on Arch.

kkkkkk ridiculous video