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Originally Posted by rcentros
KDE was my first choice -- then I moved to Gnome when KDE had their first "big" change. But I've heard good things about the newest versions of KDE, it's actually much "lighter" than Gnome. By now though, I've been using Gnome 2 (Mate) for so long I'm pretty much invested in it. I used to like to experiment quite a bit -- but now I'm at the age where I just want to use my computer.
And Xubuntu is based on Xfce. I liked Xfce but -- at least on Vector Linux -- it was more work to keep updated and configure than was Mate. Vector Linux was also Slackware based so didn't have the Ubuntu repositories and I got to the point where I just wanted something simple -- basically click and point.
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I think you're right. KDE does seem to be getting lighter and faster. Not as light and fast as xfce, of course, but very good for such a fully-featured DE. I did a little experiment to compare the two. This is on the same machine, different installations of the same OS, one using xfce and the other KDE. On a fresh boot, before doing anything else (other than the usual things I have starting at boot. Come to think of it, one of those things is ktorrent, a KDE app, so I guess the xfce number should be even lower.-) xfce is using 146MB RAM, KDE 252MB.
It's interesting that you find KDE lighter than Gnome. Back in the day I always felt that Gnome was the lighter one.
I think the problems you had maintaining xfce on Vector probably had more to do with Slack than with xfce. Probably dead easy with Ubuntu.